03-02-2023, 05:47 AM
Several decades ago, the Kentucky Center for the Arts was built on a site that had a LOT of chemical contamination. The dirt was loaded into trucks and was supposed to go to a landfill in Indiana that was licensed to handle the stuff. Instead the trucks stopped at a landfill that was just across the Ohio River making a much shorter trip (allowing more trips for the drivers). Of course THAT landfill was not authorized to receive the stuff.
Word finally got out (an intrepid reported followed the trucks) and the illegal dumping stopped and the dirt was eventually moved to the correct facility. I don't remember if anyone went to jail or was fined.
That illegal site is now slated to become part of Origin Park, a large urban park along the banks of the Ohio River. That particular landfill will become Buffalo Trace Lawn with the soil as undisturbed as a park can be.
Word finally got out (an intrepid reported followed the trucks) and the illegal dumping stopped and the dirt was eventually moved to the correct facility. I don't remember if anyone went to jail or was fined.
That illegal site is now slated to become part of Origin Park, a large urban park along the banks of the Ohio River. That particular landfill will become Buffalo Trace Lawn with the soil as undisturbed as a park can be.