FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) — A new proposal could bring a trash transfer site next to one of Fort Pierce’s protected natural areas, raising environmental concerns and leaving local leaders saying they have little power to stop it.
CBS12 News has previously reported on trains carrying trash from Miami-Dade County stopping at a rail yard in Fort Pierce and the impact nearby neighborhoods say that activity has had. Now, public records show a new location is being proposed, this time bordering the George LeStrange Preserve and Ten Mile Creek.
According to permit documents filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the proposed intermodal rail terminal would impact more than 15 acres of wetlands within the preserve’s wetland system…