EDITOR: This concerns the Close to Home on Sunday by Joan Cooper of Friends
of Shollenberger Park (”Send Dutra to the dump, really”).
It’s ironic that Cooper and the Sonoma County Conservation Action, Madrone
Audubon Society, Sierra Club Sonoma Group, Petaluma Wetlands Alliance and
Petaluma River Council — seeing the handwriting on the wall regarding the
controversy — endorse locating the plant ”Close to Home,” my home.
Don’t think that you’re doing us homeowners near the central landfill any
favors suggesting the dump be used as a new home for an asphalt plant. We’ve
been putting up with the dump, recycling center, hazmat center, composting
operation, traffic, smell, dust and noise here for years. Great idea, bring in
an asphalt plant, the neighbors here won’t notice.
I have supported these organizations in the past and contributed to some of
them. I don’t recall any of you asking our opinion about locating the plant
here. I do recall Sonoma County Conservation Action coming around a week ago
to collect donations. I guess we look like fools to you. No more, you’re as
bad as those you rail against.
DENNIS J. GUGGEMOS
Petaluma
