An Oklahoma Corporation Commission complaint hearing over a Tier 3 commercial waste facility wanting to locate near Hennessey is reset for 9 a.m. Friday, Feb. 13, in Oklahoma City.

That hearing was originally scheduled Jan. 27, but the weather didn’t cooperate and state offices were closed that day due to the snow.

Farmers and other landowners near the proposed property site northeast of Hennessey have been joined by Hennessey’s Board of Trustees and intown residents to officially protest the facility.

Both groups have contracted with Oklahoma City attorney Michael Booze and he will represent them at that February hearing.

Motion to Dismiss Reasons Some items listed by Booze as reasons for corporation commissioners to dismiss approval of that permit for Centennial Solids Control LLC include:

• Applicant states seven pits will be 25 feet deep and approximately 350 feet wide and 550 feet long. In other words, these pits will each be approximately 192,500 square feet or 4.4 acres in size.

“The average size Walmart Supercenter store is 178,000 square feet... Thus each of these pits will exceed the square footage of a normal Walmart Supercenter by 14,500 sq. ft.”

• The construction site “will have a tremendously negative impact on the surrounding community. The pits will fundamentally al- ter the character of the area which is residential and agricultural, not industrial, by introducing heavy truck traffic, noise, dust, vibration and safety hazards on a continuous basis.”

• “The application requests nine enumerated variances, each of which requiring a showing of ‘good cause.’…The applicant fails to articulate any supporting facts or circumstances constituting such alleged “good cause,” wrote Booze.

Also, a state law requires that a dump site must be located four miles north of the Hennessey town limits, but the planned site is only three miles.

A permit from the state Department of Environmental Quality is also required for the dump site to go forward.

Waste Company is Local Centennial Solid Controls LLC of Hennessey is the applicant for the waste management company which is owned by David Dollar of Hennessey.

Dollar also owns Sooner Solid Solutions LLC that requires a permit from the Department of Environmental Quality for the waste management company.

Online records also show that Todd J. Vaverka “does hereby quit claim, grant, bargain, sell, convey, transfer, assign and deliver unto Sooner Solid Solutions LLC. … said tract containing 32.2 acres.

All Waste from Out of State “At this time Sooner is only accepting waste from Marathon (Oil Corp.),” according to the Hennessey company’s recent permit application to the DEQ.

“Since there isn’t a Marathon in Oklahoma, that means that all waste will be coming from out of state.”

That’s what Tyler Williams with Envirotech Engineering & Consulting told The Times & Free Press in a phone interview last month.

Action on the DEQ permit is estimated to take “at least” one year.