Train derails along Maysville Avenue
October 28, 2018
A train carrying an assortment of waste to a landfill in Perry County derailed Saturday night.
Around eight cars and the train’s engine overturned near Muskingum Iron and Metal, with additional cars knocked off the track.
A representative from Muskingum Iron and Metal said the portion of the company that uses the railroad to transport scrap metal waste from the facility to the landfill will be affected.
A landfill employee familiar with the contents of the train identified the overturned containers as bio-waste containing 40 tons each of purified human waste transported from New York. The employee explained that the clean waste is taken to Tunnel Hill Reclamation Landfill in New Lexington.
According to Tunnel Hill’s website, the New Lexington facility accepts an assortment of waste, including municipal solid waste, construction and demolition debris, contaminated soils, drill cutting and specialty wastes.
The waste is transported along the Ohio Central Railroad, owned by Genesee and Wyoming, and has connections to CSX and Norfolk Southern railroads.
Muskingum County EMA Director Jeff Jadwin is assisting on the scene and said a company from Columbus is being called in to remove the overturned cars.
Jadwin estimates the clean up will take more than a day.
An employee from Muskingum Iron and Metal said the landfill indicated regular operations won’t resume until Tuesday.
In the meantime, Jadwin said all railroad operations in the area of the derailment have been postponed.
The cause of the derailment is still under investigation. Railroad officials on site would not comment.
Alyce • Oct 31, 2018 at 10:19 am
Therese Hollingshead, what do you think happens to your poop when you’re connected to the public sewage system? They don’t just store that stuff forever. When you have a mass amount of people pooping into a sewage system, it has to be recycled until it is “clean” enough to be released back into the environment. Meaning, any type of diseases have to be killed in that waste. Otherwise, waste is not actually harmful to the environment or anything else, as long as it is chemical and disease-free, as we use it (non-human) for fertilizer, dumping in landfills and other remote areas and dumping the excess liquid from this waste into our rivers and irrigation systems. The bad thing about this is, is that we also have any thing that goes down our drains in that waste. That’s why it’s so important to try to avoid harsh chemicals when you are cleaning and not to dump any drugs that you’re no longer taking into the toilet.
We need regulations put in place to protect us from companies selling us products which are harmful to ourselves and our environment along with EPA regulations to protect our environment from this waste, especially our water that we are drinking from poisons and diseases that can be transferred from our waste to our bodies.
Here’s a link to a simple explanation about what happens to your poop:
https://tinyurl.com/ya9hea6p
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Shannon O'Berries • Oct 30, 2018 at 11:32 pm
Why is our county landfill accepting trainloads of human waste from other states, is what I’d be asking my county commissioners at their next meeting if I lived in Perry County. Or sooner, if any of them are up for re-election.
Reno Kalian • Oct 29, 2018 at 2:30 am
as an x employee of the shortline, as we all kno that stretch of track having serious surface issues for multiple reasons, could speed played a large factor in the derailment? And the reason i say that i see em rock & roll through there on a regular basis. Wat is the speed through there 10 mph.?
therese hollingshead • Oct 28, 2018 at 2:46 pm
please define ‘PURIFIED HUMAN WASTE” is that not shit.
Jack Joseph • Oct 28, 2018 at 2:45 pm
Muskingum Iron & Metal Co. does not send waste from our facility. We ship Scrap Metal for REMELTING PURPOSES ONLY. This scrap is then converted into new steel, aluminum, and copper. We DO NOT handle or transport waste.