Unionville Landfill Would Be North Carolina's Second Largest

Date: October 24, 2002

Source: News Room

A Unionville, N.C. businessman's proposal for the Griffin Farms Environmental Disposal Facility is still in early stages. The landfill would accept up to 2,500 tons of trash a day beginning in 2006, from roughly a 100-mile radius in the Carolinas. Residents in the town of 4,800 say the landfill would harm water supplies, property values, and traffic conditions. But the landfill's supporters note that the facility would pay Unionville fees totaling almost three times the town's annual revenue of about $150,000. And they say it could save Union County up to $1.9 million, which it spends now to haul its trash to Montgomery County, N.C. The site would be only slightly smaller than the state's largest landfill, the Charlotte Motor Speedway landfill in Concord, which handles 3,500 tons each day.

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