[CPEO-BIF] Mississippi landfill owners stand to make millions

["lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Money pits?
Private landfill owners stand to make millions from debris dumping

By RYAN LaFONTAINE
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
February 23, 2006

HANCOCK COUNTY - A plan to move debris that could have generated millions
of federal dollars to the county school district instead will soon make
four local men millionaires.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina hit on Aug. 29, county officials were in a
frantic search for a place to dump massive piles of debris, and Hancock
Supervisor Steve Seymour said the county first considered using hundreds of
acres of 16th Section land in the Stennis buffer zone.

With more than 7 million cubic yards of trash scattered throughout the
county, a plan to use 16th Section land in the buffer zone would have meant
the county school district could have collected more than $21 million - a
boon to a county with virtually no property taxes to rely on to fund next
year's budget. Land designated 16th Section has been set aside by the state
as a trust; the proceeds of any income from it benefits local schools.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/13939080.htm

-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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