Dear Editor: Recently, I received a plea for help from Rev. Joseph R. Parrish Jr. of St. John;s Church in Elizabeth. The City of New York, it seems, is sending tons of garbage daily to that New Jersey city. Governor Whitman had given the City of New York a three-year period allowing this activity. New York currently recycles only 15% of its garbage, whereas the State of New Jersey recycles three times that amount. As a result of this New York City mess, all sorts of materials that did not originate in New Jersey wind up here. I know when we hear Elizabeth, we think it is pretty far away and not our problem. However, these garbage trucks travel right through parts of Hudson County in an effort to avoid checkpoints that are set up to stop them. Now you can realize that Elizabeth’s problem is also ours. Currently, the Town of Harrison is in a redevelopment mode. It is not bad enough that we have to tolerate trucked in septic and sludge (Industrial Waste from the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission), in the name of lowered sewerage rates, (I give you my word, any sewerage increase within any town of Hudson County, will be exposed by me publicly), but now we must accept a New York Garbage flow. I intend to circulate a petition and will be requesting your support in the near future. The citizens of the Town of Elizabeth are pleading with us to assist them in preventing their community from becoming one of New York City’s Garbage dumps. We really don=t need the hundreds of trucks traveling through our streets with their sickening cargo and causing increased health and safety issues for our residents and children who must traverse the town to school and sporting events. I have also been informed that the City of Newark’s Deputy Mayor for economic development is about to seek enforcement of a law signed by Governor Whitman that would prohibit trucks on Rt. 21. This new enforcement would force trucks to loop around downtown Newark and would go a long way towards easing the congestion in the city of Newark. This my friends can only mean increased truck traffic within the Town of Harrison and Kearny. We can stop this activity by seeking the same law be imposed for Rt. 17 (Frank E. Rodgers Blvd. & Kearny Avenue). I certainly hope that our appointed redevelopment committee has taken this into consideration and is on top of the problem. The Mayor of Newark has stated that Newark will become the most exciting economic development of the new millennium. This may be so, but not at Harrison’s expense. It seems everyone is making a profit from these trucks with the City of Newark=s Renaissance and Passaic Valley Sewerage who has plans of building a glass museum at the sewerage plant. I wonder how much the Commission will charge, or more importantly, what will be on exhibit? Dan Kelly, Councilman Harrison, New Jersey