City cited for contamination - what the heck took so long?

Written By Robin Wade

City cited for contamination - what the heck took so long?The city of Florence has been polluting it's residents for decades.  And just now has been cited for contamination.  Unbelievable that it's taken so long to confirm what every nature lover and creek lover has known from the start.  Put a feaking city landfill up on a hill above cypress creek, and it gets polluted.  Place a city landfill within three miles of UNA and Historic downtown Florence, and UNA and Historic Downtown Florence and it's residents are at risk.

Paddle down the creek and you can't help but find odd foam, orange colored leakage around the dump, and quite often totally unnatural terrible smells.  We all know to stay out of the creek a few days after a rain, but now our assumptions that the creek is being polluted by the city has been confirmed. 

How can any of the commission continue to allow this risk to our residents is beyong me.

http://www.timesdaily.com/stories/City-cited-for-contamination,188671

City cited for contamination - what the heck took so long?

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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