There's a pile of rotting garbage (some optimistically call it "mulch", but if it's been there since Ike, it's garbage) festering in Pleasantville, near the Port of Houston. It's been there since Hurricane Ike converted large chunks of the city to debris back in September, and now it looks like the Copeland Construction Group might finally move it on out of here.Indeed, CCG were issued a citation earlier this month by the city health department, providing extra motivation to get moving. Soon the
The man behind the Pleasantville debris pile has spoken to the Houston Chronicle and has offered a novel defense of his actions.Marlon Copeland of CCG, the company that created the giant pile, essentially tells complainers this: Your neighborhood smelled so bad before, you should be thanking us for doing you a favor:"That's unfortunate that the residents could come out and say it's a problem," he said. He compared the smell to pine air freshener and said he believed it enhanced the predominant o
