I’m a homeowner in South Fulton and I live in a poisoned community. South Fulton and Fayette County residents are being poisoned by the PSC Waste Management plant and it needs to stop.

It is so disturbing to me that this problem has not been resolved yet as over 750 residents are sick, ailing and have been for over four months. Yet at the end of the year, Fulton County will expect us to pay taxes.

What is even more disturbing and disgraceful is the EPD. The EPD fined PSC $100,000 and they were never monitoring nor requesting records from the PSC plant.

I think the EPD should be fined too for allowing this plant to operate illegally. I also think that the responsible person at the EPD who never requested records at the PSC plant should be fired and never allowed to work in that capacity again.

I’m actually happy to leave to go to work everyday because I know once I leave my home and my community that I’m not being poisoned anymore.

But when I return home, I feel uneasy because I have nowhere else to live, therefore I have no choice but to return to my poisoned home and community and breathe in dangerous and harmful gases emanating from the PSC Waste Management plant.

The day that plant is shut down permanently will be the day I can come home and enjoy my home and neighborhood without the fear of being poisoned.

I refuse to sit in my backyard and I dare not plant anything edible. I’ve only lived in my home for nine months and I refuse to decorate, paint or do anything cosmetic because I don’t want to live there anymore.

I remember when I closed on my home on Dec. 29, 2005: It was one of the happiest days of my life but that excitement came to a sudden halt once I discovered that the disgusting onion/garlic smell was a poisonous gas.

I feel trapped because I can’t sell my home with this issue in the community. It’s very plain and simple, South Fulton and Fayette County residents need help immediately. We’ve waited far too long for someone to come to our rescue.

This is something major because 750 people are complaining of illnesses and it’s our governmental leaders who need to step up to the plate and help us.

Like I said before, this reminds me of Hurricane Katrina and how long it took for FEMA to come to the rescue.

It almost seems like they are waiting for someone to die so they can perform an autopsy and say, oh, they were telling the truth.

Tracy D. Robinson
Fairburn, Ga.

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