Mike Parker, Tree Fruit Extension Specialist with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service at North Carolina State University talks about how to plant, prune, and maintain peach trees. Some of the considerations when planting peach trees are site selection, soil characteristics, soil testing, plant selection, and the planting method. For more information on this or other topics, visit NC Cooperative Extension at www.ces.ncsu.edu
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HARRISON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) – In the next ten days, Harrison County will bring in a testing team to determine if the tar balls being dumped at the Pecan Grove landfill are hazardous. Waste Management says the material is non-hazardous and it’s already testing the tar balls. On Thursday, the county’s attorney sent a letter asking Waste Management for documentation of what is being dumped into the landfill and any testing that has been done to prove that the waste is non-hazardous material. Board attorney Tim Holleman says Harrison County is testing the oily waste and added, “An environmental consultant has been asked to do testing of his own on the materials coming up on our beaches and marshes to determine if it is hazardous. And to be quite frank with you, my initial conversation with them is, they’re a little bit mystified about how somebody can say this is non-hazardous also.” He said if the oil waste proves to be hazardous, the county supervisors will take whatever steps necessary to keep oil out of the landfill. On Wednesday, a spokesman for Waste Management told WLOX that residents living around the Pecan Grove landfill in Harrison County don’t have to be alarmed. Ken Haldin said the oil waste collected from our beaches and now being dumped in the landfill is non-hazardous. Homeowners are upset after learning that Waste Management began dumping the oil waste into the Pecan Grove landfill. Don Carter said, “They need to stop it now.” Carter lives near the Pecan Grove …
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