Ten kilometers off Mityana road, down a dusty, unmarked path, The Observer team made its way to the Buyala landfill, a site ...
Aerial view of the Laidlaw/Safety Kleen hazardous waste landfill near the shores of Sparkleberry Swamp and Lake Marion. This photo, from the early 2000s, shows the proximity of the dump to the lake, ...
All of that went to landfills designated to take hazardous waste. The cleanup is now in phase two, which involves removing all the remaining debris. And it is not going very far at all — in fact ...
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As much as 200,000 cubic yards of highly toxic waste was dumped into the pits and later eroded allowing for contaminants to leak into the San Jacinto River. In 2008, the site was added to the EPA ...
Aerial view of the Laidlaw/Safety Kleen hazardous waste landfill near the shores of Sparkleberry Swamp and Lake Marion. This photo, from the early 2000s, shows the proximity of the dump to the ...