Oxford Used To Have A Baseball Field. Now It Doesn't. But It Does Have A Hill Of Undisclosed Materials
From the Desk of Scott Rensberger
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After former Oxford Town Manager Cheryl Lewis put what she called a "Temporary Hill" on top of our baseball field she received a grant for $122,400.00 to rehabilitate the area. Lewis told the Commissioners and the taxpayers of Oxford that she had already spent 20 to 30 thousand dollars of that State grant money before she put out any bids for the project. It's completely unclear where this 20 to 30 thousand dollars went. I've been asking for documents but so far the Town of Oxford hasn't been able to provide any. I've been requesting this information for five months.
In this clip above Cheryl Lewis tells the Town of Oxford that the baseball field will stay intact. She went on to comment that other items like concrete chess tables might be added to the outside perimeter of the field.
But shortly after Lewis told the Town of Oxford that the baseball field will remain a baseball field -- Lewis oversaw the planting of several donated trees that completely destroyed the park -- making sure no child or adult will ever run the bases again. To make things worse -- Cheryl Lewis donated our two baseball field bleachers to her hometown of Trappe. According to the Star Democrat -- Lewis has been trying to get a grant to build a new softball field in Trappe but so far the Town of Trappe has stopped her. Trappe currently has three baseball fields. Lewis also wrote at least one check, paid by the taxpayers of Oxford, as a $500.00 donation to the Trappe Little League.
The "Temporary Hill" on top of the baseball field has now been there for 6 years. So far the Town of Oxford has never tested the hill for any type of toxic waste. The Hill was formed during the same time period when hundreds of truck loads of sludge was being removed from Oxford's old Wastewater Treatment Plant. But the sludge removal came to a complete stop after a local landfill refused to take anymore. After 10 months the trucking company found a new landfill across the Bay Bridge in Virginia to take the toxic waste. This massive sludge removal helped make the cost of the new Wastewater Treatment Plant skyrocket. Originally it was supposed to cost around 8 million dollars but in the end it came to about 18 million -- which helped lead to the residents of Oxford paying among the highest water bills in the United States.
Is the hill on the baseball field toxic? I have no idea. But I think it should be professionally tested by the EPA or the University of Maryland. In a town called "Ground Zero" for flooding -- it seems odd that the largest dirt pile in Oxford's 341 year history is being "temporarily" held and not used towards our fight against global warming.
