From staff reports
A proposal to expand a Birmingham landfill has residents in one Trussville neighborhood upset.
Magnolia Place homeowners are concerned about runoff, odors and health concerns. The residents are also worried about the landfill’s proximity to Magnolia Elementary School.
The City of Birmingham is working on an application to extend the landfill adjacent to the subdivision to 20 acres.
Birmingham city officials also are reportedly seeking to extend the life of the landfill that was in existence prior to the development of the Trussville neighborhood. Birmingham officials reportedly want to use the landfill for several more decades.
An article on the issue by Laura Walsh reported that Trussville Councilor Jef Freeman will ask the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to deny Birmingham’s application for permission to expand the landfill.
16 Comments
Dena Wood
Tanna McGuire Friday this is what Frances Friday was talking about yesterday .
Mark Woodward
Ok so where is all ya trash going to go to if it’s not extended ??
Cliff Bagwell
The landfill was there a very long time before the subdivisions.
Lanette Milligan Cook
Residents of the subdivision were told it was being closed by the DR Horton builders when we built there.
Will Davis
Wow a salesmen lied to make a sale. Who would have ever thought that would happen. I don’t understand people that buy a house and then complain about the surroundings whether is is a landfill, farm, shooting range or whatever.
Chris Clark
DR is one of the least reputable builders around. Heck that company along with about two there’s really contributed to the housing market crisis around Birmingham. They kept flooding the market with cheap houses.
Tina DeLine
Hmmm wonder if its releases gases from the earth or can it cause cancer in the future?
Mike Clark
If it could they are already in trouble. I am pretty sure those houses sit on top of the original part of that landfill.
Tina DeLine
I agree it probably has been going on already .
Peggy Cole Chance
Better find you an endangered species……
Lanette Milligan Cook
golly gee maybe one day we will all be as smart as you.
Matthew Browning
Lanette Milligan Cook I remember being told that by a sales lady when they were being built! She also said there would be a nice walking trail around the retention pond. She also said the city was going to build a nice park across the road. They did build a school however!
Jeffery Byers
We better start recycling more, need more recycling cans.
Cliff Bagwell
Lol! People will believe anything sometimes! Subdivision in my area of Springville that was built a couple blocks from a pig farm. Selling like hotcakes. When they start feeding hogs in large quantity again, you will hear screams all the way to Trussville. And Lanette Milligan Cook….. I AM that smart, and if you purchased in a surrounding subdivision with the hopes they would actually close a working landfill, you have already proven you will not, one day, be as smart as me. Sorry ma’am. Its my job as an appraiser to note external obsolesences and adjust values accordingly.
Jerry W. Schnader
Why did anyone buy a house near the dump in the first place?
Stephen Tyler Coppage
They shouldn’t of built those house there anyway