REPORT ON THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING SESSION AT MORGAN HS ON THE PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL WASTE RECYCLING FACILITY ON ROUTE 145 IN CLINTON, CT. More than 300 concerned citizens of Clinton, CT attended this first session of the public hearing. The audience was very respectful and cooperative during a long and technical meeting. Here are the most important things to come out of tonight's meeting. First, the public hearing will continue on Tuesday April 3, 2018 at 7 PM in the auditorium at the Morgan High School, the same place where the hearing was held tonight. Second, the engineer representing the developer gave a very superficial and boring talk which ignored all of the real issues related to wetlands. He even acknowledged one point that he had not even attempted to directly address the impact of the proposed facility's impacts on the wetlands. His performance was actually quite embarrassingly inadequate. Third, some of the members of the Inland Wetlands Commission asked the developer serious and probing questions. To some of these questions, the developer's representative simply had no answers. To others, he promised a reply in the future. Fourth, the opponents of this industrial waste recycling facility presented two serious scientists who demonstrated the high pollution potential to the wetlands of this proposed facility. Steve Trinkhaus and Darby Hittle both distinguished themselves, and they brought their considerable professional expertise to a reasoned opposition to this proposal. Fifth, many members of the public spoke in opposition to the industrial waste facility, some quite eloquently. Sixth, no member of the public spoke in support of the proposed industrial waste recycling facility on route 145 in Clinton Connecticut. Not a single one. Seventh, the owners of the proposed facility, the Dobringer brothers and Alan Ashkenaze of North Jersey never showed up at the hearing. They left the appearance to their local henchmen, George Andrews of Louriero Engineering Associates and Rick Kowaleski. Eighth, the opponents of this dreadful facility most definitely won this first battle, but we must stay attentive and organized in order to finally and completely defeat this project that would poison our wetlands, our environment and our people. Jim Connolly Clinton, CT