EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The long-awaited cleanup of the defunct TLA Pond View recycling facility in Rumford will begin within two weeks and take 60 days to complete, the state Department of Environmental Management announced Friday.
Ever since the business went into receivership and shut down on Sept. 10, residents have been demanding that the piles of construction and demolition debris that had accumulated at the site be promptly removed. The neighbors consider the operation a nuisance and have battled it for years.
But residents are displeased with the choice of who will do the clean-up: Ken Foley, the landlord who ran the recycling business until selling to TLA. They view it as a conflict of interest and are disturbed he'll be paid $610,000 by the bonding company.