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Landfills: A Growing Menace
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....r like The Great Wall of China, the Great
Pyramids, or the Taj Majal. In contrast to these striking achievements of
mankind is the Durham Road Landfill outside San Francisco, which occupies over
seventy million cubic feet. It is a sad monument to the excesses of modern
society [Gore 151]. One must think this huge rese.... Part 2 of Paper
....o deposit
municipal garbage in the swamp until the level of the land was above sea level.
A study of the area predicted the marsh would be filled by the year 1968. He
then planned to develop the area, building houses and attracting light industry
over the landfill. The Fresh Kills Landfill was originally meant to be a
conservation project that would benefit the environment. The mayor of New York
City issued a report titled "The Fresh Kills Landfill Project" in 1951 which
stated, in part, that.... |
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