{"id":20440,"date":"2013-10-02T08:20:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T12:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=20440"},"modified":"2013-10-08T13:10:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:10:52","slug":"city-sues-recycling-company-for-dumping-waste-into-sewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/2013\/10\/02\/city-sues-recycling-company-for-dumping-waste-into-sewers\/","title":{"rendered":"City Sues Recycling Company for Dumping Waste into Sewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: The original version of this post was updated to correct the location the material was being dumped. The Record incorrectly wrote that hazardous material was being dumped into the city&#8217;s sewer system, but it was being dumped into the city&#8217;s stormwater conveyances.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The City of Raleigh will be filing an injunction against Raleigh Recycling for illegally dumping hazardous material into the city&#8217;s stormwater conveyances.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor announced the decision after a closed session meeting Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh Recycling, also known as Goldsboro Iron and Metal Company, is located on Garner Road and processes, among other things, iron, steel, aluminum, batteries, plastic and cars.<\/p>\n<p>City Attorney Thomas McCormick said the city will have to do some further research to find out what exactly what chemicals are being dumped.<\/p>\n<p>Greg Brown, owner of Raleigh Recycling, said they are &#8220;working actively with the city to resolve the issue immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city will file an injunction against Raleigh Recycling for what it believes is hazardous waste being dumped into city sewers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,15],"tags":[1425,1424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}