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Gadsden Council Hears Strong Local Opposition to Proposed C&D Landfill Expansion; Vote Tabled
Summary
Residents from the Green Pastures area urged the council to deny a proposed expansion of the citys construction-and-demolition (C&D) landfill, citing health, property-value and environmental-justice concerns; an engineering consultant said the design follows ADEM criteria and the council voted to table action until next week so more public comments can be reviewed.
Gadsden City Council held a public hearing Dec. 9 on a proposed permit modification that would expand the footprint of the citys construction-and-demolition (C&D) landfill and open additional waste-disposal cells on city-owned property. After hours of public comment and technical briefing, the council voted to table the resolution until the next meeting to allow staff and the council more time to review comments submitted through the 4:30 p.m. public-comment deadline.
Residents from the nearby Green Pastures neighborhood described decades of industrial encroachment and said the expansion would threaten property values, quality of life and health. "This expansion threatens the value, safety, and integrity of those assets, and therefore, it is opposed," said an unidentified speaker representing the Shalindra Scott Estate. Charlie Jane Jenkins of 1603 Paradise Avenue described ongoing noise and pollution from existing nearby industrial sites and asked the council to "please reconsider" siting more landfill capacity…
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