Buffalo firm’s plan to take trash angers neighbours.
Behind a row of houses on Peabody Street is a yard that legally accepts materials from demolitions.
The neighbors have been dealing with dust from the operation for years, and some say they have suffered harmful effects on their health.
Now, the yard owner, Battaglia Demolitions Inc., is seeking to accept garbage, a proposal that has outraged the neighborhood.
“We’re people, too,” said Francine Bachmann, who lives on Peabody. “So we don’t live in a great neighborhood. We have a quality of life, too.”
A public hearing on Battaglia’s request for a solid waste transfer station license will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers. Battaglia has a permit from the city to accept debris from construction and demolition activities but would like to expand the materials it accepts.
Bachmann has lived in the Seneca Babcock area for all of her 36 years, has family nearby and doesn’t want to move, despite the operations just beyond her backyard.
Concrete crushing at the demolition and recycling yard have caused her 16-year-old daughter’s childhood nosebleeds to return so severely that she had surgery on her nose last month, Bachmann said.
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