To the Editor:
This letter is in response to the recent letter to the editor about WM-Twin Bridges that was factually inaccurate. As the district manager of Twin Bridges, I would like to respond and correct the assumptions in that letter.
This landfill opened in the early 1970’s and was owned by Danis Corporation. Waste Management of Indiana LLC (WM) purchased the landfill in 1986. The landfill expanded in the mid-1990s from 109 acres to 237 acres. At that time, WM signed an agreement with the Town of Danville that prohibits waste from all of the eastern states including New York, New Jersey, as well as Chicago.
This landfill invests a substantial amount of effort in controlling odors from migrating off-site. This effort includes several miles of landfill gas pipelines extracting gas from the landfill and transporting it to gas-to-energy plants. The facility continually expands and monitors the gas collection system.
Approximately one-fourth of the landfill’s work force is dedicated to the monitoring and operation of the landfill gas control system. WM-Twin Bridges, with Wabash Valley Power, has completed its third landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) plant earlier this year. Landfill gas odors are controlled by combusting the methane gas within the plant engines. The LFGTE plants generate enough “green” electricity to power about 9.000 homes and businesses. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Landfill Methane Outreach Program has embraced LFGTE plants as a reliable renewable energy resource. Twin Bridges & Wabash Power’s three on-site LFGTE plants have produced enough power to replace 1.2 million barrels of oil to date.
Many of our employees are local residents from the Town of Danville and the surrounding Hendricks County area. Twin Bridges and its employees have a vested business and personal interest in the community to ensure that the facility is not a burden to the community, but rather an asset. This includes the range of recreational areas and hiking trails located at Twin Bridges.
As always, the facility is open for tours and we welcome the public to utilize the recreational areas as well as the hiking trails. If you would like more information, please contact us at 745-2878.
Sincerely,
Barry Ledbetter
District Manager
WM- Twin Bridges
Twin Bridges RDF
To the Editor:
I am thankful to my fellow Hoosiers for keeping hope alive and well.
I do most of my shopping at Kroger because it is closest to my home and I’ve been familiar with it since I was a kid in the 1930s.
I am something of an observant person and note that this store provides bags of groceries ranging in price from $3 to $5 and $10 per bag that people can purchase and deposit in a large box that is then sent to a distribution point to be distributed to those in need. There have been several boxes filled this year.
I know that other stores do the same. I just happen to see the process in Kroger.
To all of the people who participate in this enterprise, this, I think, is what America is all about — keeping hope alive by keeping hunger at bay ... one bag at a time.
As an old man of 85 years, it makes my heart glad to see that the stick-together spirit of the 1930s Depression is still alive and well. With things like this going on, God will bless America.
George Stultz
Plainfield
