LANDFILL JONES CROSS ROAD

SOUTHERN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT CENTER

The Southern Solid Waste Management Center is the politically

correct name for the trash pit, the dump, landfill at Jones Crossroads

just sw of Georgetown.

Yes, there sit a million tons of garbage in a 572 acre tract of

Sussex County.

550 vehicles, on an average, visit and dump 'garbage' and

trash six days a week, including recyclables, yard waste, electronics,

tires, plastic, cardboard, paper, glass and used motor oil, from 7am

to 5 pm. It is said they actually do separate recyclables from the trash.

Fifty four 'spots' around the 'landfill' are checked to ensure there

is no pollution to underground water and that the garbage stays put ` where it was put.

Dozers push two feet of dirt, clean dirt, over the days dumping,

into clay lined cells, which is disliked by the ever present gulls.

After these cells are filled and closed they are capped with two feet of

clean cover dirt, three layers of “ impermeable geotextitile

gridwork” to collect gas and liquids, 18 inches of more clean dirt,

then topsoil for grass and cover growth. The hill will grow to 220

feet high. The gas made by the garbage dump is used to generate the

power needed to operate the solid waste management center.

The center is also a wildlife gathering place, deer, ducks, geese,

turkeys, heron and seagulls, eagles, buzzerds are always present near

by.

Projections give this center 40 more years, or 10 million tons,

of life.

Abstract of Dennis Forney's 'Barefootin” Cape Gazette, Friday,

February 22, 2019 by Harrison H.