Citizens for Environmental Safety, Purcell, (Jasper Co.) MO

The Carthage Press, Friday, Februuary 27, 2009, reported that Republic Financial Corporation-Denver, has abandoned plans to build a landfill in Purcell (Jasper Co.) Missouri. The 640 acre site is/was at the corner of Country Road 210 and Baseline. "The company announced on Feb. 14 that it planned to sell the land and attach a covenant to the deed that it could never be used as a landfill." Citizens for Environmental Saftey (CES) "said it opposed the landfill because the land was the headwaters to Slater Branch, a creek that ran directly into the North Fork of the Spring River, then into the Spring River itself. They feared pollution from the landfill could spread into Spring River."

The CES Committee plans to "donate the information, maps and testing it had conducted and gathered to the library at Missouri Southern State University where it could be archived, protected and available for public use." Thank you and congratulations to the CES Committee, including Joe Hagen, Charimonde Hagen and Mark Russell.

Previous Environmental Battlefields of Missouri posts regarding the Purcell Landfill:
SW Regional Landfill (Google Earth) view
Who's Who on the Purcell Landfill Batlefield
Who is Running SW Regional Landfill
Public Information Session Purcell Landfill
Today's Headlines Purcell Landfill
When is a Landfill a Junkyard?
Clarification of Landfill
Can You See Though a Landfill?