Quincy and favored city contractor both DEP'ed?

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Quincy and favored city contractor both DEP’ed?

Is the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection going to be hitting the City of Quincy and one of the Koch Maladministration’s preferred vendors with serious sanctions?  Perhaps more importantly, will other enforcement agencies soon be piling on also?

Public health and public safety at risk?
A QQ Citizen Environmentalist photo

As reported in the South Shore Broadsheet, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has acknowledged that it is looking at a problematic construction waste storage site on city property that has apparently been operated by a frequent provider of services to the City of Quincy.

Arguably the key problems: waste material and storm water runoff have  flowing off of what appears to have been an much less than properly secured storage site and thus spilling over onto the banks of the Town River near its outlet into the harbor in Quincy Point.

Further problematic, both the City of Quincy and this particular preferred Koch Maladministration services provider surely know better even if they might yet endeavor to claim to not know anything.

Minions hunkering down?
Illumination Entertainment characters

Reasons they should know better include that several years ago the City of Quincy was hit with an estimated million dollar fix-it order by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection over the City of Quincy’s Department of Public Works mishandling of problematical waste material.  Similarly, the services provider that apparently gave rise to this latest mess in the Q surely knows the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s rules and regulations for storing construction waste material.

Storm water flooding at waste storage site next to environmentally sensitive and protected waterway
QQ Citizen Environmentalist conjoined photos

Campaign Finance
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Related additional problems include the City’s apparent blind eye to the apparent improper storage of problematic materials. 

Additionally, parties tied to this particular provider of various services to the City of Quincy have been generous contributors to Quincy Mayor Koch’s campaign fund over the years.

Further, in the wake of this services provider ending up as one of the major beneficiaries of the Koch Maladministration’s at least $13.7 million 2015 Snow Job, one of the owners of this company was subsequently fined by the Office of Campaign and Political Finance for making illegal campaign contributions to Mayor Koch’s campaign fund.

Out of town plow truck taking a break?
A Quincy Quarry News 2015 Snow Job file photo

Granted, while pay to play is not necessarily illegal in Massachusetts, there is clearly at least the appearance of other and potentially serious at least improper actions possibly also committed.

Whether – or not – referrals to other law enforcement entities are made by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection or perhaps by others remains to be seen.

DPW Commissar Dan “Spanky” Raymondi
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Quincy Quarry did consider reaching out to the titular head of the City of Quincy’s Department of Public Works, Commissar Dan “Spanky” Raymondi for comment; however, not even Quincy Quarry’s weekend City Editor Mark de Sade would subject even the Quarry’s most junior student intern to suffer listening to Spanky endlessly go on and on and on and on even more about the hardworking men and (some, ed.) women at the DPW when both the Quarry as well as ever increasingly more Quincy residents know better.

Regardless, count on Quincy Quarry to continue to follow this breaking story as well as the money

After all, Quincy Quarry isn’t ranked as Google’s top source for News about Quincy without ample good reasons as well as its long history of hard hitting exposés of the soft underbelly of the Koch Maladministration.

Reporters following the money
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