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Decision
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"I can't put myself forward to tell another municipality how they should
balance their competing concerns. However, I would hate for them to think of the
$1 or $2 per ton host fees as free money, only counterbalanced by some temporary
annoying smells and truck traffic.
For the bottom line of our extensive analysis of landfill designs and existing
financial assurance structures is that, for large landfills in populated areas,
there will be substantial clean up costs that, in the case of massive landslides
such as what occurred near Cincinnati in 1996, would cost approximately $80 per
ton to excavate, stabilize and re-enter the section that cleaved off. Then,
there would be the associated costs for contaminated drinking water supplies and
other lost economic activity.
That is to say, you will not just be asked to buy some financial stability at
the minor price of noise and odors. Rather, the ultimate cost will be magnitudes
far beyond anything you received... so large it will likely bankrupt the
community.
-Peter Anderson-
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*Peter Anderson is President of RecycleWorlds Consulting, Executive Director of the Center for a Competitive Waste Industry, and Project Director for the multi-state Plastic Redesign Project. He made a presentation to the NC Legislature in 2007."
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Fact Sheet for the Proposed Landfill
The Landfill Will:
Be over a mile long and 2/5ths of a mile wide.
Be 240 feet tall, as high as a 24 story building,
Tall as the two radio station antennas,
And taller than the Cape Hatteras Light House.
Have a footprint of 236 Acres of prime farm land.
Be the 3rd largest landfill in North Carolina.
Distance from Landfill to Points of Interest:
½ Mile Maxton City Limits,
1 Mile Stewartsville Cemetery
2 ½ Miles South Scotland School
2 ¾ Miles Laurinburg-Maxton Airport
3 Miles Laurinburg City Limits
The Landfill will receive 3,000 tons (6 million pounds) of garbage per day. Scotland County produces 100 tons per day. If only Scotland County waste was placed in the landfill it would last for 885 years (to the year 2895).
The maximum capacity of the landfill will be 31 Million Tons,
(62,000,000,000 pounds) of garbage.
A Mega-Dump would Jeopardize Positive Opportunities for Growth:
* Proximity to Ft. Bragg (BRAC is expected to bring in $6.5 billion to the area.)
* Expansion of Highway 401 to four lanes from Fayetteville to Laurinburg.
* Resurfacing the runway at The Laurinburg Maxton Airport.
* Completion of Interstate-74 through the county.
* Development of an Inland Port – Prime distribution hub location (proximity to roads, rails, airport and port) to serve the fast growing Piedmont-Atlantic MegaRegion.
We can do better
with the right leadership!
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