IT NEVER ENDS IN SOUTH CAROLINA … DOES IT?
Federal and state officials seized computer equipment from the town hall in Lyman, S.C. – while the local city council suspended the town’s “public works director.”
“With little more than an hour and a half of notice, council held an emergency meeting Tuesday afternoon,” reported Felicia Kitzmiller of The (Spartanburg, S.C.) Herald-Journal. “While council members were in a closed-door session discussing a personnel matter, law enforcement entered Town Hall and were seen leaving the building with at least one computer.”
Ruh-roh … sound familiar?
According to Kitzmiller, a town employee said that the joint federal-state raid resulted in computer equipment being taken from the office of Lyman mayor Rodney Turner – who “did not attend (the) meeting and could not be reached for comment” afterward.
According to our sources, the investigation may have something to do with the ongoing probe into the illegal dumping of toxic chemicals in sewage systems along the Interstate 85 corridor in Charlotte, Spartanburg, Greenville and Lyman.
Earlier this year it was discovered that polychlorinated biphenyls (or PCBs) – commonly used in coolant products – had been dumped into Charlotte’s wastewater system. Similar cases of PCB dumping and contamination in South Carolina have been uncovered.
Last year, a Lyman, S.C. police sergeant was arrested and charged with destroying evidence related to illegal PCB dumping.
A suburb of Greer (home of South Carolina’s BMW plant), Lyman’s population is roughly 3,000 – with a median household income of roughly $38,000.
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It has been suggested on WYFF that Mr. Turner may also be employed with a police agency affiliated with GSP “International” airport.
One flight a week from Germany with BMW parts does an “International” airport make.
I know,
Some of us have rolled our eyes over that for years but just about every mid-sized airport does the same thing……You pay some damn plane to land just once from outside the US and suddenly you are an “International” aorport
it’s not a bad airport but Charlotte Douglas or Hartsville International it ain’t……………….
And as a rule, the best buys are still out of Charlotte or Atlanta (depending on where you are going).
That being said: = Alegient(sp) has a damn great shuttle from GSP to Ft. Laureldale 1-2 per week non-stop then you are only 3 hours to Key West!!!!!!! The Floridians use it to golf in Hendersonville or Cliffs of Glassy!!!!!
Hartsville has an international airport?
Na.Will is apparently threatening me.I “searched” for information on Tucumcari and Allegiant Airlines today as I have business trips coming up and Fits (via euwe max and sparklecity) is letting me know they have “hacked” my computer and are sharing personal information.
“max” is my youngest son’s name.”Drayton” was used as Fits/Will knows I am in Dayton, Ohio taking care of a sic father and father-in-law and has my IP address. My name was used last week as well on the blog.
My attorney and I figured it was happening and laid a few “Long” dong traps for the rats. They bit.
I wish no one any harm. Self-employed and love politics. Conservative in my beliefs.Tom Ervin? No hard feelings-just think Haley has been a great governor. I have commented on MANY subjects on this forum.
Just a shame my family had to be threatened over a difference in political opinion.
I have never met Nikki Halley nor do I know anyone associated with her.
Fuck you Will Folks.Just a private citizen that tried expressing opinion. Don’t fuck with my family.
Get yer tin-foiled hats! Your IT guy…ahem, attorney…I mean voice in yout head getting worked up there Bussy.
Yeah, there’s this one cyber-security dude who might be out of a job, pogo/SandiMorals. Might even help you for free if you are willing to personally help him indulge some of his fantasies in real life. A dude that travels perpetually the way that you do should have no problems with that.
POGO! I THOUGHT that might be you. Explains a lot.
How are the bi-racial grandchildren doing? Is that bad old Sic Willie making them cry? Are you and the rainbow-hued brood in Murrells Inlet, Florida, Vegas or Ohio this week? Is your disbled Mrs. still on her perpetual travelling deathbed in the Airstream?
Hey Buz.Grandchildren are doing well. Ethan is in 4th grade and Aiden just started pre-k. In Ohio helping care for elderly father and in-laws -heading to Vegas on Monday.Course you and other sic people know that?ll be in Myrtle Beach area for Fall SOS, Fun Sunday/Monday in a couple of weeks.Wife is disabled and uses a walker/wheelchair however she is a beautiful woman and soul. We have a great time traveling together.
Thanks for asking. How are you? Still weigh 400 lbs, sweat profusely and smell like a skunk? Mommy still house and feed ya ? How many refinances and/or 2nd-3rd-4th mortgages on Mommy’s house before the bank said no more? Did you ever get a drivers licence or vehicle or do you still hobble your fat ass around the Inlet on a cane seeking handouts from the locals-and walking out on bar tabs when you figure out it ain’t free? Still stalking local politicians and their families while creating bizarre tales and falsehoods of corruption that eventually play a roll in getting others sued for libel?
Thanks for thinking of pogo.
Shoulda known it. Never shoulda doubted it. “Sandi Morals” is the infamous “pogo” of The SNOB. Holy shit, you are one amazing troll! You’ve managed to encapsulate in one post every single lie promulgated about me by PI Tom Davis, Hillbilly Bob Hall, Fucked-Head Bob Freeland and Charlie “The Voice” Campbell. btw, has Tom Davis been in jail again since that total drunken hit-and-run melt-down of July 4 ended his ugly ass up in J. Reubin Long?
For the record, I’m now down to 255, not using a cane, never have lived off my mother at all, and in fact I am the one that basically keeps her alive and I treat her very well. The shit about skipping out on bar tabs was manufactured by Campbell for his own reasons because I do not drink, I seek no hand-outs from anyone, and basically I could never possibly do as good a job as the local pols themselves do in stalking each other.
As for libel suits, The Sun News has not paid a dime and will not eventually have to do so. But keep stirring all that shit up. If you don’t it can’t really stink enough to differentiate it from the pluff mud, the rotting fish, and Eue de Georgetown on a foggy morning.
He is – along with the Mayor of Wellford – Tommy Watkins (the two towns connect). Wellford is infamous for speed traps on US 29 from Lyman town limits to WAY past the town limits of Wellford almost into Spartanburg City limits & I-85 from SC 129 – SC 290 {again WAY PAST the towm limits of Wellford where the Duncan PD vultures pick up to the SC 101 & I-85 ramp headed towards Greenville or back to Spartanburg depending on whether you are headed north or south on I-85.
It is the GSP Airport Police Department and the Mayor of Wellford used to be (or may still be) the chief of that “department”
They have a “hateful grudge” against one another.
Again, you can’t possibly make this shit up!!!!!
Yeah, yeah. The Feds ignore Steve Benjamin, Jim Clyburn, Bobby Harrell and Jean Toal and go after some little league politicians. This is outright amusing.
Shit, dude, those people may be currupt, but they’re not polluting our waterways…
Oh my God! PCBs???? … The chemical causes cancer in which death results … and can enter a person’s system through the pours of the skin …. Is this a terrorist act to kill millions? Sewage system or not …. This kind of crime will land people in prison for life. Millions of residents are now at serious risk … well systems and drinking water, etc,
PCB levels in parts of Lake Hartwell have resulted in warnings about eating fish caught there. An environmental engineer I know did calculations based on the concentrations reported and ascertained that in order to reach toxic levels, you would have to eat about 5 pounds a day of the fish, every day. But the Corps CYAed by putting out the warning.
Just like so many of those “deadly chemicals” , you would have to consume so much over such a long period of time something else would take you out long before the chemical , like old age. Like all the other environmental crapola, some common sense would come in handy.
Yeah, like smoking. Safe really. You have to smoke about 3 packs a day for 50 years to die. So – – – – light ’em up boys.
Please, please get your news from more than one source. You’re no rogue, just a sheep following the flock.
“that in order to reach toxic levels”
That doesn’t even mean anything. Toxic to the worms (or shark or alligator) who eat you.
And too many environmental engineers are simply employed as apologists for pollution, though many others get paid big bucks to clean up this “trivial stuff.”
Human consumption you dope. But apparently you eat worms so perhaps their toxicity does concern you. By the way, how many sharks and/or alligators have you seen in Lake Hartwell?
Still nonsense. But I’ll bet you get that response a lot.
Though go ahead, try to explain it in detail:
“An environmental engineer I know did calculations based on the concentrations reported and ascertained that in order to reach toxic levels, you would have to eat about 5 pounds a day of the fish, every day.”
It directly implies that you can metabolize or excrete in a day a significant amount more than the amount of PCB in five pounds of fish. It infers, presumably, that “you” are in the most vulnerable part of the population: child, pregnant or lactating woman, etc.
You have the floor. Explain it.
Dear Fitsnews Info Ops Security Manager…………
Just for the sake of clarity………..please make a note in my personnel file that I bold face volunteer and expose that I am from the great town of GREER. (Born and raised…)
I know this “smoke”……………VERY…..VERY…..well..!
Please highlight the fact that a large Methane tapping lollipop from “Lyman” is being sucked by BMW……….
If the feds are involved, this dood is done. Nice knowing ya.
Professor Chiles……….
You do know it depends on how the info “on” the computer is actually used..!? Do you not..?
This Mayor may just be the link that brings every Landfill permit “holder” to their knees across AMERICA…!!
Lets hope every financial transaction can be tracked back to a “Waste Management campaign donor mule…”
Better yet……lets hope a raid at SC-DHEC ties back to Harrell and “Catherine Ceips”……..
Traced back yes, however as the facts unfold the investigation will no doubt be ordered to cease immediately, after the a number of the pups are rounded up, leaving the big dogs to roam,
Dear VA Burnpit victims in the class Action lawsuit…………..
We wonder if you Jury is going to be informed of how certain Plasma Waste to energy converter contracts may have been manipulated..? Those that were installed in your FOBS and reportedly never used have yet to be installed anywhere in South Carolina. Dare to wonder how PCB contaminated waste is handled with the Plasma waste to energy converters instead of being dumped in a METHANE LANDFILL..? (if it were allowed..)
Ya know VA sufferers……….just how educated is the jury going to really be when determining your plight and settlement..!? Maybe Lindsey Graham would make a great “witness”….!?
The only sure fire ways to render PCB’s “harmless is by thermal oxidation (burning the shit out of the compound since it has has chlorine as part of its molecular structure = which is hard as hell to break apart)
Or burying the stuff in a secure hazardous landfill like the one in Emile,Alabama where most of the “hot shit” is going at present. And brother, that costs BIG BUCKS!!!!!
Looks like Tucumcari.
Keep dem dogeys movin Rawhide
This train doesn’t stop at Tucumcari.
It will.
Love to visit Tucumcari. I was asked to run for mayor several years ago. Might hold a town hall meeting when I visit next week. Cheapest hotels in the country are on Route 66. A Holiday Inn Express and Long John’s Silver-what more do you need?
A Long Dong Silver?
I don’t get into euwe or Smirks “anal” experiences.
I was born there.
It was reported that the cameras throughout the town hall had microphones and the mayor had access.
“A suburb of Greer (home of South
Carolina’s BMW plant), Lyman’s population is roughly 3,000 – with a
median household income of roughly $38,000.”
And an average IQ of 71.
Jesus, if Nikki is not the tip of the ice berg, why bother ? Blame SC voters, is something new in SC ?
Pour a little here, and pour a little there, no one gets hurt, and no one cares. It’s just the grand old way, we do it in Carolina, I’m gonna get yours, and I’m gonna get mine-a. So pay me on the sly, down at the Golden Corral, we can get some chicken, I’m your good ole pal.
The contaminant PCBs go illegally into restaurant grease traps in the middle of the night. These get pumped out and spread on farm fields directly or go to a sewage treatment plant where they absorb into the sludge which itself gets spread on farm fields. I’ll let you figure out the rest of the equation.
Red Bank family to receive $830,000 in water contamination case
LEXINGTON COUNTY, SC (WIS) – A large financial settlement was issued Thursday in a case involving a Red Bank family and Tin Products.
The case stems from alleged contamination of Crystal Lake from the Tin Products company.
The case was heard in a Lexington County courtroom where $830,000 was ordered to be paid to the Macaulay family of Crystal Lake.
The Lexington County Joint Municipal Water & Sewer Authority, DHEC and Tin Products were listed as the defendants in the case.
http://www.wistv.com/story/6627652/red-bank-family-to-receive-830000-in-water-contamination-case
Red Bank had many home wells contaminated by industrial solvents a decade or so ago. 50 or more I think. Discovered by accident. Not a person in charge of any part of that failure to contain that contamination or find it in time was ever held accountable and absolutely no lesson was learned by SC’s “authorities.” It could happen again tomorrow. It could be happening today and we would not know for a long while and then again by happenstance. No one is looking.
The maximum allowable contaminant level in drinking water in the United States is set at zero, but due to water treatment technologies, a level of 0.5 parts per billion is the defacto level.
In 2013 in South Carolina PCBs were discovered in very high levels in wastewater sludge. The problem was not discovered until thousands of acres of farm land in South Carolina were contaminated by this hazardous material. An ongoing criminal investigation is underway to determine the perpetrator of this crime. While investigation was underway, SCDHEC issued emergency regulatory order banning all PCB laden sewage sludge from being land applied on farm fields or deposited into landfills in South Carolina.
Also in 2013, after DHEC request, the City of Charlotte decided to stop land applying sewage sludge in South Carolina while authorities investigated the source of PCB contamination. In February 2014, the City of Charlotte admits PCB’s have entered their sewage treatment centers as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychlorinated_biphenyl
Since I refuse to reply to that liar and coward “Sandi Morals” I will reply to you since your post does a great job of summarizing the situation facing wastewater treatment plants on the I-85 corridor from Greenville to Charlotte
I wrote 2 fairly long posts on the “Somebody gets something on Nikki Haley” article almost two days ago = PLEASE REFER TO MY POSTS ON THAT “THINGY” FOR MY SUMMARY OF EVENTS.
It is serious shit (pardon the pun) in that is is going to cost MILLIONS to rectify this situation for the wastewater treatment plants involved and they are some of the major treatment systems in the upstate: ReWa {aka: Western Carolina Sewer Authority} in Greenville.Spartanburg Sanitary System and CMUD in Charlotte not to mention a shit load (there I go again…) of smaller treatment systems in the Upstate including Lyman where the whole thing started.
I believe Columbia has tested “hot” as well but I don’t think that the Columbia Sewer Authority is affected to the degree that the plants along the I-85 corridor are.
These costs will be passed along to the users of said Sanitary Sewer Districts I can guarentee you that.
There is so much stuff going on in the Town of Lyman the you could not possibly make the shit up.
I won’t get into it at length here but if you go to “goupstate.com” (The Spartanburg herald Journal website you will see the town hall meeting last night was the leading article. Even more amazing when you click on the leading article, the side bar is chock full of the BS that has been going on since last August when this shit (insert pun here…) broke out
INCLUDING a Lyman cop who has been fired for evidence tampering concerning the PCB AFFAIR and the best of all: LYMAN TOWN COUNCIL HAVING A MEETING AND DECIDING TO GIVE THE K-9 MUTT TO THE DICK-HEADED COP WHO HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND IS AWAITING TRIAL!!!
HONESTLY, YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP BUT IS IS ALL TRUE!!!
The Spartanburg H/J has done an excellent jo on covering this situation and it is still developing.
i do think that when/if the perps are discovered who did this shit it will be BIG NEWS.
The FEDS (FBI,EPA),SLED,DHEC and others are all over this situation as they should be
Will do. You likely know as well as I do about the SC Pollution Control Act and the criminal penalties … but the feds can so much more with this. That is not to say, however, that both state and federal time in the slammer can not be imposed. And it would not be a double jeopardy matter either if it is. Sentences have been know to run consecutively. And in a matter like this, they should. The public’s health is at a very high risk with this dumping on the ground. The SC State Attorney General should have an investigation going on. If not, the public needs to know why. This is major chit. Those PCBs could in the long haul end up moving their way into the midlands via rivers, streams, rain run off, and underground water movement, just to name a few.
1996 A 36-inch Colonial Pipeline ruptured at the Reedy River, near Fork Shoals, South Carolina, on June 26. The ruptured pipeline released about 957,600 US gallons (3,625,000 L) of fuel oil into the Reedy River and surrounding areas. The spill polluted a 34-mile (55 km) stretch of the Reedy River, causing significant environmental damage. Floating oil extended about 23 miles (37 km) down the river. Approximately 35,000 fish were killed, along with other aquatic organisms and wildlife. The estimated cost to Colonial Pipeline for cleanup and settlement with the State of South Carolina was $20.5 million. No one was injured in the accident. The pipeline was operating at reduced pressure due to know corrosion issues, but pipeline operator confusion led to an accidental return to normal pressure in that pipeline section, causing the rupture.
Where are “upstate” idiots sparkle city and vicupstate when you need em? Damn Greenville/Spartanburg area appears to be the most corrupt area in the state.
Wonder how many times this mayor signed Tom Ervin’s petitions?
yeah right. Like there isn’t corruption in Atlantic Beach, Timmonsville, Lexington County, Columbia and Horry County.
Weren’t you suppose to meet Sparklecity on a street near Lyman?
Yep.It was at a shooting range or some such and I just figured somebody from that area had put a “hit” on me. ::-)
Would have been glad to meet him in a public place in Greenville area. Always stop at Bimini’s for the best seafood in the “upstate” . Just don’t meet people at shooting ranges that appear to be deranged.
Obama on Syria “We don’t have a strategy yet” Ya think?
On Ukraine “It’s not an invasion. It’s an incursion”
What a relief.
Yep.
Hey, how about this?….
Professor consensus: Haley will win
By GAVIN JACKSON
Morning NewsAugust 23, 2014
2014-08-24T21:38:04Z
BY GAVIN JACKSON The_State
FLORENCE, SC — The consensus of six political science professors from around the state is that Republican Gov. Nikki Haley will win the Nov. 4 rematch election against Democratic state Sen. Vincent Sheheen.
The professors announced their verdict Thursday during a forum at the University of South Carolina.
The 2014 rematch election is notably different than 2010 since neither are vying for the open spot. Haley is defending herself from Sheheen as he attempts to use her record in office against her in an attempt to dethrone the governor. Polls have shown Haley has wide support thanks to the economy.
The Pee Dee was represented by Francis Marion University’s Alissa Warters, who said voters will be looking at how things are now in their lives and not necessarily scandals at the Department of Revenue or Department of Social Services when it comes to casting their ballot.
“If we’re looking at defining in terms of what the voters are looking at, you look at the most recent (Clemson University) Palmetto Poll: it’s jobs, the economy and health insurance,” Warters said. “But I think you always ask the bellwether question and that’s, ‘Are you better off now more than you were four years ago?’ And Nikki Haley has to answer that and it’s going to come down to the economy and jobs, in all likelihood.”
The June 4 poll found Haley received support from 73 percent of those polled, compared to 6 percent for Sheheen and 2 percent for independent candidate Tom Ervin.
David Woodard of Clemson University, who taught Sheheen, put Haley with 55 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Sheheen ….
Read more here: http://www.islandpacket.com/2014/08/23/3272645/professor-consensus-haley-will.html#storylink=cpy
I agree except the June 4 poll sounds like a misprint. No Republican will get 73% except possibly Tim Scott.
Yes. It is a misprint. No one gets 73% in any poll, anywhere. No major party candidate gets 6% either. Having grown up in Florence, it is common knowledge that the newspaper has multiple misprints/mistakes daily.
Okay.You were correct. It was Haley 53%,Sheheen 36% and Ervin 2%…rest undecided…
Reality is a bitch.
Reality is that you are a coward. Why don’t you use your real name TROLL? I am.
Are you afraid to tell us, in the name of transparency, of course, how old your first sexual encounter was?
Wait a minute! Sweet Jesus…the poll was indeed 73% Haley, 6% Sheheen and 2% “traitor Tommy”!
Just confirmed!!!
I could never figure out why “traitor Tommy” would invest millions of his/her(?) own money into such a losing cause. He saw this poll,knows he can’t win and is trying to elect Vincent Obama Sheheen. His wife has shown Sheheen “love” with her money in the past.
Apparently he is spending the old lady’s money to appease her political “crush” on Sheheen? In my opinion, only thing that makes sense? Plus he made her a tv star….:-) LMAO!!!!!
I’m just reflecting on the concept of Greer having suburbs.
“I’m just reflecting on the concept of Greer having suburbs.”
LOL – too funny!
I thought the picture of a set of railroad tracks suggested there was some type of delineation. Good thing I’ve never been to Greer I guess. But, I have been to the BMW museum, how close was I to the war zone?
FITS:
Thanks for finally bringing this up
That photo does not look like Lyman RR crossing but Duncan which is about 3 miles west of Lyman.
You couldn’t make this shit (pardon the pun) up if you tried.
I have posted at length a few minutes ago (below i guess)
“That photo does not look like Lyman RR crossing but Duncan which is about 3 miles west of Lyman. ”
Who could confuse Lyman and Duncan right?
It is actually the tracks to the side of the old Springs parking lot in Lyman.
Sparklecity, where are you?
posted about 4 times..
not to mention the other day……..
Until a few minutes ago I was seeing guest. Then I saw
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sparklecity (Guest) 8:51 p.m. Aug. 28
posted about 4 times..
not to mention the other day……..
Now it is all working.
Also,
The Director of Lyman’s Utility Department has been suspended without pay around the same time of the siezure of computers and other electronic hardware
FITS, have you written about Lyman having a referendum that recently stripped the mayor of much his power. He lost by a very wide margin.
Mr Folks………….
Your headline “Lyman: more LOCAL scandal”…….is so downright treasonous. You know full well that what is happening in LYMAN is happening at every LANDFILL in our state…!!!
Why do you think that every LANDFILL has been expanded when we have technology that makes Landfills as we know it obsolete..!?
There is only one way to deal with the “Carolina Camorra”……….
There used to be pot growing on those tracks.
So you were into farming, eh?
Yeah, but I was more discreet. I’d only harvest other people’s crops.
You should look into how a small nowhere town like Lyman managed to convince a major state agency (SC Voc Rehab) into building a multimillion dollar complex in their town that’s just minutes away from it’s main Spartanburg county office.
Just after it was built the agency’s director retired with a huge wad of cash.