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Residents and Sumpter County urge Citrus County to oppose Heart of Florida landfill deep-injection well
Summary
Multiple speakers from Sumpter County and local residents warned commissioners the Heart of Florida landfill is drilling a deep exploratory well that could become a class I injection well; the board directed staff to send a formal letter opposing the permit and asked for regional coordination and additional technical review.
A series of public commenters and a technical presentation at the March 31 Citrus County commission meeting focused on the proposed deep-injection well at the Heart of Florida landfill near Lake Panasoffkee and urged regional opposition.
Speakers from neighboring counties and area residents described odour complaints, alleged permit and compliance failures, and concerns that injection of treated (or partially treated) landfill leachate deep underground could eventually contaminate the Floridan aquifer and nearby springs. Several speakers cited past injection-well failures elsewhere in the U.S. and the difficulty of detecting and remediating subsurface leaks…
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