Letter: Toxic materials not right for landfill
A shuttered West Islip pool is being reopened by town officials to accommodate Brentwood residents as a criminal probe into illegal dumping will keep Roberto Clemente Park, which is pictured here, closed indefinitely. Credit: Danielle Finkelstein
The Department of Environmental Conservation held a hearing at Suffolk County Community College to address the removal of toxic material from Roberto Clemente Park in Brentwood and the shipment of that material to the Hauppauge landfill ["Residents concerned by Islip park cleanup plan," News, Oct. 10].
The board of directors of the Hamlet at Windwatch is greatly dismayed that the trustees of the Hauppauge school board didn't attend. This was a meeting that directly concerned the students, staff and residents, including ours.
With a day care center located in the Whippoorwill School building, and three district schools within a two-mile radius of the landfill, it is unconscionable that the Hauppauge school board didn't object to the relocation of toxic material so close to its schools.
Stuart Rachlin, Hauppauge
Editor's note: The writer is a member of the board of the Hamlet at Windwatch Homeowners Association.
