Residents of Avoca turned out last night in large numbers for a meeting at Queen of the Apostles Church on one company's effort to build a waste transfer station in their borough. Big Rocks, LLC., wants to construct the waste transfer station on land it owns about 800 feet away from a neighborhood known as Quail Hill. Avoca residents are concerned the project will bring more noise and pollution in their neighborhood and have local history to prove their point, after thousands of residents were exposed to toxic chemicals from a Kerr-Mcgee Corporation Wood Treatment Plant that once operated in Avoca for decades. The Avoca Zoning Board committee will decide if the transfer station project will move forward; when that will happen is still up in the air. No word on when the next meeting on the waste transfer project will be.
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