Mindenmines & Environmental Recovery Group, LLC

What about ...the traffic, the noise, the odor, the blowing trash, the trash trucks, the detrimental effect, the waste seeping into the ground, the roads, the land values, the quality of life, and the benefits? These are concerns that area residents had prior to a public hearing, facilitated by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), set for Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at City Hall, 613 Main Street, Mindenmines, MO.

The Project is proposed by Environmental Recovery Group LLC, seeking a permit for a sanitary landfill in a former strip mining area northwest of Minednmines. The application to build the 36.8 acre landfill on a 193 acre site was filed on June 28, 2006. The proposed landfill would be used for nonhazardous municipal trash. The site is an inactive coal strip mine area about one mile north of US Highway 160, adjacent to the Missouri-Kansas state line.

The landfill is proposed by a group of investors including Dennis Wilson, a longtime member of the Barton County (MO) Commission. Wilson said that the group has plans to use the site as a landfill, then turn it into a wetland and wildlife area. the application proposes disposing of 1,000 tons of waste per day, and estimates that the site would be in operation for 8 1/2 years.

The Joplin Globe Concerns Piling Up Over Proposed Landfill and The Joplin Globe Landfill Proposal Subject of Public Meeting, Monday September 4, 2006