Did you know we already have coal ash in our Lowndes County landfill?
And where will the trash come from for that landfill gas project,
subject of
the meeting 8:30 AM tomorrow morning at the Colquitt EMC office in Valdosta?
Atlanta, or even farther north (or south)?
And what will be in it: coal ash like Taylor County’s landfill,
with arsenic and lead?
As we’ve seen,
GreenPower EMC’s previous two landfill gas projects seem to be in Taylor
County, Georgia.
What none of GreenPower, ESG, ADS, or Colquitt EMC seem to have mentioned
is that much of the trash in the landfill in Mauk, Taylor County,
between Machon and Columbus,
appears to come from farther north.
Jeffry Scott wrote for the AJC 24 October 2003,
MAKING ROOM FOR GARBAGE: Landfill battles pile up: Rural areas targeted for urban trash,
