New Haven Independent

Ramsey is a project manager from Godfrey-Hoffman, an engineering firm doing work for Chase Waste Material Corporation, a scrap metal company adjacent to the city landfill, with an 80-year history of doing business in New Haven.

David Ramsey spoke of the company’s intent to remediate a small sliver of nearby land on which large piles of scrap currently sit. The property is backed by wetlands; City Engineer Richard Miller raised the possibility of further pollution of the already polluted ground.

The scrap is going to be put into bins and removed, and new metals processed will be non-polluting, Miller was assured. New shipments of scrap metal will not even touch the ground, as they will always be in containers, according to Ramsey.

Moreover there will be at least a 50-foot separation between the remediation activity and the wetlands. Concluded commission member Giovanni Zinn: “This is going to turn into an environmental success story in New Haven.”