Document 15v72VKQ1rJq54JpyLkLkKmg5

"Mr Monday, October 11,1982, Raleigh, N.C. -iueal Sc stote mews/Obituaries/Classifled ads cee(ioi PC B, protesters contimiemar RVD to state It LOUISBURG (UPI) -- Oppo cause the area is poor, predomi nents of a Warren County PCB nately black and politically weak. landfill resumed Sunday a 55-mile They fear the PCBs eventually will ! protest march to Raleigh with a leak from the landfill and contami seven-mile walk from Louisburg nate drinking water; : : to Royal, a small.town in southern The state repeatedly has stated Franklin County. that Warren County was the best The protesters, who began their location based on a number of cri march Saturday in Afton, the site teria and says the landfill is the of the controversial landfill, plan best and safest way of disposing of to arrive in Raleigh Tuesday for a the chemical; " rally at the Capitol. Gov. James B. Hunt Jr. met with They spent Saturday night in opposition leaders Friday and Louisburg. . promised to ensure that the land < In a related development, a fill would not become a health dan-, state highway official said the re ger. moval of PCB-tainted soil from He also said he would pursue roadsides in 14 counties should be means for detoxifying the chemi- < completed later this week. cal in the landfill, once a feasible < "I would anticipate we would be means is found, but said he would completed in the next two or three not stop the trucks from picking up days," said Billy Rose, the state the remaining contaminated dirt highway administrator. and putting it in the landfill. Rose also said he thought a law The protest march was started suit filed Friday by landfill oppo by opponents not satisfied with the nents was frivolous and may be an outcome of the meeting, but other, effort to stop the final pickups of opponents said they were pleased contaminated soil. by Hunt's response. ' ' PCB, a toxic chemical that has "I think we got just about all we been linked to cancer in laboratory could get, and clear-thinking indi animals, was dumped illegally viduals feel that," said Joyce > along about 243 miles of state high Lubbers, adding that she was dis ways more than four years ago. turbed that other opponents were Dirt from about 231 miles of roads marching to Raleigh. has been picked up and transport Mrs. Lubbers and five other op ed to the landfill since it opened ponents filed a lawsuit Friday Sept. 15. seeking to block trucks from using The state constructed the land the two secondary roads leading to fill after the Environmental Pro the landfill. In the suit filed in tection Agency ordered the chemi Warren County Superior Court, cal removed from roadsides and they contend weight limits for the provided a grant covering most of two roads were raised illegally the cost of removal. last month by Transportation Sec Many Warren County residents retary William Roberson. oppose the landfill and have tried The suit contends that Roberson to block state Department of changed the weight limit to allow Transportation trucks carrying vehicles weighing more than dirt to the landfill. More than 500 13,000 pounds an axle to use the arrests have been made since the road, but when the state Board of landfill opened. Transportation gave the secretary The opponents contend the War ren County site was chosen be 1 * . . See PCB, page 10C PCB landfill opponents continue march Continuedfrom page JC the board to delegate to the secre- , authority to restrict weight limits, tary authority to lower weight lim it did not also give him power to its and not allow him to increase raise limits. them," he said. But Rose said the board gave the Rose said he had not seen the secretary all authority over suit but "based on my general weight limits. knowledge, it appears to be a friv- "It just doesn't make sense for olous suit." -------_------ -- PCB-ARCH-EXT0378505