This is where politics becomes stupid.

This material is perfectly harmless and is used in bed construction for highways world wide.

This case is pure sensationalism.

Yeah...rockash is always mixed with fly ash...a carcinogen...so go ahead and use it to build roads in your neck of the woods..

You sure don't know what your talking about.

This material is used all over the world the same way even here so get to know what you are talking about my friend before you make a fool of yourself.

JimHarrinton:

If the rockash is so good ,why didn't you keep it where it belongs in PR,where it originated?

It was sold just like any commodity to a buyer.

i think it is Toxic, if it wasn't then why not dump it in local pr

Trying to educate someone that dosen't have the capacity to understand is difficult as is in your cases.

The material has a high commercial value and therfore was sold to a buyer for road work in the DR.

There is no problem disposing of this type of material if it is not wanted, it is however wanted and is sold as a commodity.

Jimi dont be wackin on poor Chill his mommy dropped him on his head when he was a baby....

“rockash” is a FFC material (Fossil Fuel Combustion waste) as defined by the EPA. FFC covers a wide range of ash and basically whatever crap is left when you burn a fossil fuel. The EPA considers FFC to be non-toxic and does not regulate it however in the 1990’s when they were studying the issue they did find that some FFCs did leach some metals if they were not contained but those metals and in the amounts recorded over decades do not amount to what their standard “test of proof” that damage might be done to human health.

Having said that the EPA does consider it a “special waste” and chooses to not encourage just throwing it anywhere which is why they adopt programs to educate engineers and encourage the use of FFCs in concrete uses and other uses that “fix” the potentially harmful aspects of the material if nothing more than at least the dust aspect.

I undersand Jim if it has been "one of those days" in paradise been but maybe we can go a little easy on our friends here......

JimHarrington:
If as you said a "commodity".Why did the Fl. Fed. court ruled on behalf of DR and the transporter had to pay US$6mns to the DR gvt? For what i understand PR was dispossing of it for free. There is no commodity to speak of , when you give something away for free.That means you don't want it for a reason .Right?
Why are 3 DR gvt endicted for aranging the disposal w/o gvt consultation ?You have to remember
DR is not a colony of US as PR is and are dealing on a federal level on any international issue.

Elmo....you are kidding right?!? ? Sorry; Thelmo...

Thelmo those Boricuas dont like being told they live in a colony.....in particular when all the Dominicans are trying to swim the Mona to get in ....and would be the first to tell you they accomplish more with 3 million than the DR does with 9 million....didnt you go to the parade last Sunday

Thelmo;
Much as I hate to disagree with you on theissue of Puerto Rico, that island entity IS NOT an US COLONY. To call any geographical/political entity a COLONY is to emply that it was peopled primarily by aparent nation. in thecase pf Puerto Rico, that parent nation would be SPAIN. As a matter of fact, Puerto Rico was a colony of Spain when it lost that terrritory to the US, alongwith the Phillipines, Cuba and other island entities after losing theSpanish-American War in 1898. Since that time, ALL territories have been either offered Independence, Commonwealth Status or Statehood. Puerto Rico STILL is in the category of being a Commonwealth with the prerrogative of electing any of thethree categories mentioned.
So, in closing, if you can'tget your facts straight and post the correct information on a subject, I strongly suggest you go back to school in an effort to learn something factual about the world you live in instead of repeating false information which fits YOUR AGENDA.
TB

goulet...you know something about Commonwealth don't you? Does that mean PR gets to share the Queen with Canada and participate in those special olympics where other Commonwealth countires compete against one another to determine which one is the most mediocre? ;-)

MalditoGringo;

Google "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico" and catch up on history instead of heresay. There is a world of information which will set you right as to the statusof Puerto Rico.

TB

maldito very funny, I love it.....two Brits on there way to Canada ,one says to other " Got to give us a job , you know England owns Canada ",,,,, the Commonwealth Games in their day were a very big deal ...but in its day so was the Commonwealth ....British that is

Chill Bill...my Commonwealth comments were toung in cheek. Hey, wait a minute, wasn't Texas a Commonwealth once also? I would love to see some Texan roughriders bowing before their Mexican Queens...(Eh now that's a picture, goulet, Eh?)

Note: Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia...all commonwealths. Do you think they will vote to joint the Great Union?

TB
In reference to PR i still call it a COLONY and i don't have to go back to your brain washing shool
to define a posesion a COLONY ,no matter who owns it . They can not vote for the presidential and have no representation in Washington DC.All they have is a poppet GOVERNOR. To answer Gouletcolonial's statement that "they acomplished more with 3 millions than DR with 9 "is a misconsept. The US has to carry them all the way including welfare in their own island. One thing the DR don't have. PR remindes me of Venezuela in the last 100 yrs. Had PR been a Colony of Britain they would have done more for themselves instead of depending on UNCLE SAM . As to Venezuela with all the richness of oil at least by now they could have had heavy industry that they could call it their own as well as airplains and ship industry & motor industry as well as steel.
So TB the word commonwealth as defined is to share equal wealth and I don't see PR's wealth. I went to school here as well as DR cont

Poppet Governor Thelmo is that the same as your love life ? the" Hand Poppet " and Thelmo you are just jealous because they got to America first with the most ...They did your dirty work you should thank them....When " West Side Story " came out in 1957 on Broadway there was three Dominicans living in New York....but remember they were the shock troops the Boricuas.....watch the Tony awards I hope the musical" The Heights " wins every thing written and produced and starring a Boricua....Their accomplishments in Sports and the Arts and Sciences and Business speak for themselves.....Your national pride is a good thing Thelmo dont let it get in the way of reality

TB
and USA is the only country that has taken the name of a continet for themselves "AMERICA" EEUU instead of UNITED STATIANS What the hell are the others south of the border ?AFRICANS,ASIANS,EUROPEANS? To my knowledge.All those So. of the border are as American as you if not more . In fact more because most ANGLO Americans are 2-3 generation EUROS while the natives or precolonials were here thousand years before . So going back to AMERICOS VESPUCIUS by which the continet was given its name meant North,Central,South America as one.

So you see TB why PR can not afford to be an independent country when all was handed down to them including defence, medicare,S/S & welfare,If they choose statehood FED TAX.could brake (PR) .They had given US 17yrs tax break as of 1950 and when it was up the industries left the Island for more loop holes and had a high unemployment rate in PR. What is keeping them affloat is the PR retirees but the cost of living has escalated tremendosly.

TAR

thelmo it sounds like the politics of bitterness and resentment ....You probably feel you are always the victim ? correct ...the Cubanos get a green card when they swim ashore the Boricuas have food stamps etc etc etc....get over it ...you are fortunate to be in America or whatever you want to call it....stop looking at your brothers from the Spanish Antilles with envy and jealousy

Thelmo...Oh please give us a break. I certainly hope you are not clinging the Vespucci thing as a source of national identity & pride. I thought that went out of vogue in the 80's. You could argue that based on Amerigo's title & responsibilities we should all be called Indians ...I don't see you jumping up to claim that title.

Another point, maybe just a little bit nit-picky, but since you opened the door on that one, the "Americas" that someone else later named after Amerigo did not include Cuba, Hispañola, nor PR; why, ah precisely because Amerigo was commissioned specifically to chart the difference between those islands and the continent and the name Americas was assigned to the continent(s). So I guess that just leaves us with the name Colonials (after Colon?!?) Which I guess just takes us back to your point...I'm sorry, I've forgotten...did we settle on colony or commonwealth? I can't remember.

Maldito are you trying to give this poor guy a complex ? the word colony is not linked to in any way to Cristobal Colon

Gouletcolonial:
For what i can see you are in Canada, not America is that right? therefore you are not american in your analogy .
So to what continent does Canada belongs to as well as PR? PR never left the American Continent You made a statement tha the Boricuas made it to AMERICA before me and i was jellous of it and that there were only 3 Dominicans in NYC in 1957. I guess i was one of them out of HS and in the US army.
As to the sports,art,science,business as you said speak for themselves are not over the Dominicans. If that was the case why do BORICUAS GO TO STUDY IN DR UNIVERSITIES to become MD ?

Believe me i lived among them in NYC for a while, from 1952-1959 and i did not meet any rocket scientist among them or in the army from 1959-1962 and there after working in the MTA from
1965-2003 ,Am retired for 5 yrs now and have not come across any" super dotado"BORICUA.

Don't get me wrong I have nothing against them I think they are the nicest people and humblest .

they go to study medicine in the DR the same as the Americans because they could not get in medical school in USA ...DR has second largest off shore medical school after Mexico

....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famous_Puerto_Ricans,,,,,you be the judge

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dominicans ...did you notice the big difference

across all categories ....I dont want to rub it in...but as I said before their accomplishments in the Arts and Sciences and Sports and Business speak for themselves...and yes you would have been one of the few Dominicans...you probably got tired of being called one....P.S. my daughter was born in Puerto Rico when I used to live there with my Colombian wife....I now live in the DR and hold dual nationality Canada and USA with Dominican cedula and I now am proud to call it my home

I can see a lot of PRIDE in ancestery with all these posts. I also see a lot of VANITY masquerading as PRIDE from people like TAD who likes to try and change World Opinion to correspond with his own.
Again, Puerto Rico IS NOT A COLONY of the USA. It isa semi-autonomous entity which is still under the aegis of the US Congress, there fore is dependent on that body for many political freedoms and support. Read the Google reference given previously and weep your poor little heart out. A COLONY isan entity subgegated by a "superior nation" and completely governed and controled by that same nation. Puerto Rico has been going through a metamorphysis for the past 60 years as to any political, social and economic agendas. It will continue to do so until the people themselves decide to terminate their current status andvote for either independence or statehood. The counry is still divided almost equally on the matter as you well know.
Take your faulty propaganda and shove it TAD.

TB

So wikipedia is now somehow a measurement of accomplishment lol. Ok! goulet, look up ur name on wiki in 5 minutes and lets see how famous and accomplished you are, maybe I’ll make you the first man from mars lol

Casanova my good and great friend the names speak for themselves.....unlike the "Wanker from Wiki " resident communist stooge...... I dont use it for data just lists....also like Otis Sistrunk I attended the University of Mars

goulet....I don't see what Columbus' schvinkter has to do with it !?!

Maldito the great question is do we have his foreskin or his sphincter in the tomb at Faro de Colon...???????

whos this "wanker from wiki" u speak of

our resident communist stooge apparatchik.....mr cut and paste himself

Commies ! I though they were a myth outside certain hells on earth. I once saw a museum exhibit on them, don’t tell me they are making a comeback.

nutty hugo is a prime example of the new Marxism or socialism with the over the colina castro brothers in their matching Depends diapers would be the altar where belial our resident stooge worships

I been noticing a comeback in ideals that I thought were extinct(and we were better off with them gone);this site is certainly diverse, there’s some guy from the KKK calling me dirt and trying to recruit the Rubirosa LOL

yes but that was after you exposed his incestous relationship and Rubi is going to hold out for more money

i dont if you missed it but I also told him to rub sunscreen on his neck and to go sniff lou dobbs behind

I think he is the exact opposite of what he says he is

I knew it

oh so he's a gay chinese

I think he is a schwartzer pretending to be a honky bigot just so he can get your attention as a beaner

I touched all the bases