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Thursday, June io, aoio | The Red a Black
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Dirt mounds remain an eyesore for neighborhood
By SARAH JEAN DOVER
The Red & Buck
In early March, approximately 54,000 cubic feet of fill
dirt was dumped onto three lots around Price Avenue
and Sunset Drive in Athens, leaving some residents out
raged.
The dirt comes from the site of the Special Collections
Library Project at the University and will go toward new
residential development of the lots.
Jamie Roskie, managing attorney for the University
Land Use Clinic and resident of Sunset neighborhood
on Price Avenue, has been pushing with others since
March to have the dirt properly removed from the area.
Some residents feel the dirt will never be utilized for
development of the property but will remain on-site
indefinitely. “The site looks like a giant motocross track
for motorcycles and three-wheelers,” wrote Roskie in a
letter sent to the Environmental Protection Division
May 4. The dirt “stands as tall as roof tops along Price
Avenue and Sunset Drive, engulfs trees on the proper
ties, and trespasses on the property on 360 Price
Avenue.”
The letter was signed by several other residents of
the area. It expressed their concern of not only how
excess dirt created an unwanted image but also specu
lated that regulations and laws were being overlooked
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“Essentially this amount of dirt stored on a site is an
‘lnert Landfill,’” wrote Roskie in an e-mail to The Red &
Black. “State regulations require that he show he can
use at least 60 percent of the dirt on site within 00 days
of placement.”
But Danny SnifT, the University’s head architect, said
Ashley Hill, the developer of anew proposed residential
complex on Price Avenue, has done nothing wrong
except for creating a large eyesore for the neighborhood.
Sniff said the University has no responsibility In the
matter but has offered to take back the dirt to assist the
residents.
Sniff said he has never had a problem with fill dirt in
a residential area in 23 years of working for the
University.
“Fill dirt is given away to anyone with a need for it,”
he said. “In this case, there was so much dirt.”
The soil must be stabilized to prevent erosion, said
David Clark, of Athens-Clarke County Public Works
Department. Acceptable stabilizing methods include
placing silt fences and planting grass.
Hill said he has done everything asked of him by the
ACC Public Works Department to stop any eroding of
the soil. He has implemented silt fencing and over-seed
ed the dirt with a variety of grasses. Hill added that fer
tilizer and mulch have been used, as well.
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good,” Douglass said.
Carlson said the garden
would use sustainable
methods and would follow
organic production guide
lines, but added UGArden
does not have plans to
seek organic certification.
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“We’re using organic
fertilizers and we’ve added
a lot of lime to make the
Georgia red clay less acid
ic," she said.
Only one-third of the
garden will be used at a
time to encourage crop
rotation and nutrient
replenishment.
Summer crops at the
garden include tomatoes,
cucumbers, okra, peppers,
eggplant, watermelons
and herbs, Carlson said.
Douglass said garden
ers included University
students, faculty and staff
as well as members of the
Athens Area Master
Gardener Association. He
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OIL Spill depleting oxygen in Gulf
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100 and 10,000 times that seen in the Gulf
of Mexico enough already to complete
ly deplete the oxygen.
“I’ve been working in the Gulf of
Mexico for 15 years,” she said. “I’ve never
seen concentrations of methane this high
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far as to suggest the formation of dead
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mass of the material that has been inject
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body of water, first to the northeast and
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Beltless driver arrested for drugs
University student Nicholas Wayne
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seatbelt at 7:46 p.m. on June 4.
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East Campus Road for not wearing his
safety belt. The officer discovered that
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▲ Picket signs in the Sunset neighborhood teß
passers-by to “See the Giant Dirt Mound.”
As long as the size of the undisturbed soil remains
under an acre, a permit from Athens-Clarke County is
not required. This does not mean permits from other
agencies are not mandatory.
the horticulture depart
ment’s budget.
Carlson said most of the
focus this summer will be
on weeding the garden and
figuring out how to orga
nize it.
She said right now, the
garden is a “big mish
mash” of who is planting
where, but everyone is tak
ing care of it as a group.
“One third [of the har
vest] is going to charity,
one third is going into the
student organization and
one third will go to sum
mer workers,” she said. “A
big project for fall is to
determine who is dedicat
ed enough to grow their
own plot.”
Big plans are in the
works for UGArden.
Douglass said members
“The stuff’s gonna stay there, and it’s
gonna circulate around, and it’s gonna
have a lot more impact,” she said.
Joye said she was amazed at the
amount of cooperation and organization
in the Gulf. Originally, research teams
were barred from an area within five miles
of the leaking well, but Joye said she was
able to work with British Petroleum and
other officials to get her team inside that
radius.
“I have to give kudos to [the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration], to the Coast Guard, to
BP” she said. “They wanted to know what
was going on as much as we did.”
As for BP’s efforts to cap the leak, Joye
said she did not have a good answer. She
said she doubted whether anybody knew
for sure whether the attempt would be
successful.
“It’s an infusion of oil and gas unlike
anything that’s ever been seen anywhere,
certainly in human history,” she said. “It’s
impossible, I think, to know what the
impact is going to be. It’s going to be
months, or years even, before we realize
the full consequences of this spill.”
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juana totalling less than one ounce.
The officer conducted a search of the
car after the discovery, and the car was
subsequently towed after the discovery of
a suspended vehicle registration. Dawson
was then placed under arrest and trans
ported to the Clarke County Jail.
Dawson was later released Into the
custody of the Clarke County Sheriff’s
Office with his property.
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hope to have a booth at
the Athens Farmers
Market as soon as the gar
den produces a big enough
harvest, but the club might
have an informational
table before then to raise
awareness about
UGArden.
“We’ll be selling them
at like 20 percent above
market value so we won’t
be undercutting the peo
ple who are out there farm
ing as a living,” he said.
Carlson said she hopes
the garden will foster a
sense of self-sufficiency
and community for partici
pants.
“We wanted to give peo
ple who live in apartments
stacked on top of each
other a sense of place,” she
said.
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