Your hard work has paid off!
FDEP has issued an intent to deny the landfill application.

TALLAHASSEE – “Based on the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) comprehensive review of the solid waste permit application for Angelo’s Aggregate Material’s proposed Class I landfill, it has been determined that the applicant has failed to provide the required reasonable assurance that the proposed facility would be constructed in such a manner to address DEP’s concerns regarding the potential for sinkholes at the proposed location. Specifically, DEP concluded that the applicant failed to provide reasonable assurance that the landfill would be constructed with the necessary structural support to prevent adverse impacts to the environment as a result of the geology. As a result, DEP today signed an Intent to Deny the permit for Angelo’s Aggregate Material to construct and operate a Class I landfill in Pasco County.”

- Mary Jean Yon, Division of Waste Management Director

View: Intent to Deny Permit – February 12, 2009

The Issue

Imagine a picturesque rural area lined with orange orchards, fields and the Green Swamp. Now add a 220-foot pile of trash that occupies 1,069 acres in the middle of that scene. It makes for a very unpleasant picture. But that’s exactly the scene that Angelo’s Aggregate Materials wants to bring to rural Pasco County.

This inexperienced private company has never operated this type of facility before. Their landfill would not only damage the surrounding community but could put our drinking water supplies at risk. And it’s not just Pasco that would suffer the consequences. The Green Swamp basin feeds the Withlacoochee and Hillsborough rivers, and the Swamp is only about a mile from this proposed site. The entire region is at risk.

Who we are

We are the Protectors of Florida's Legacy. Our group is made up of long-time residents, property owners and concerned parents. We believe that, as a community we need to make decisions that benefit the community and the region. In keeping with that belief, we feel obligated to oppose a privately owned Class 1 landfill along the Green Swamp Basin. This project is more than a threat to the community. It impacts the entire region.

Business and residents near the landfill can expect to see their property values drop. Landfills bring an increase in traffic problems, odors and vermin.

But most importantly, it’s not good for our environment.

Placing a landfill in an area that has experienced sinkholes—and is near an area of critical State concern such as the Green Swamp—is a bad idea. It puts our local and regional drinking water supplies at risk. This is because the swamp feeds the Hillsborough and Withlacoochee Rivers, which provide water to a number of downstream communities/suppliers, such as the City of Tampa and Tampa Bay Water.

This isn’t just a local problem, it is a regional one. Anything that happens in this area has the potential to impact the entire region’s water supply as well as wildlife along our rivers. We need your support to show our local, regional and state officials that a landfill is not in the region’s best interest.

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