Long Island, New York, demands end to heavy cement truck traffic

According to CBS New York, Long Island residents near the industrial park on the New Cassel-Westbury border are calling for an end to heavy cement truck traffic and noises from concrete recycling plants.

The article mentions one family in the area who says they are concerned about using their backyard pool and barbecue because of the dust particles released into the air as a result of grinding, mixing and mashing of cement.

“That’s what we are breathing in,” resident Liz Peralta says in the article. “We don’t want it to be polluted for ourselves and for our kids.”

Town officials have submitted plans to require the facilities to curtail their hours. They also are seeking to ban the release of concrete into the wastewater stream, following a plant’s illegal dumping into a stormwater pipe, the article says. 

“We are asking them to enclose their operations, cover any piles that may produce dust by the pickup of wind and also to control some of the noise with some sound abating measures,” North Hempstead Councilwoman Viviana Russel told CBS New York.