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Mount Trashmore: Should Broward landfill, now 225 feet high, keep growing?
By Rachel Hatzipanagos | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
March 21, 2009
The skyline of Fort Lauderdale can be seen on the horizon as bulldozers compact newly dumped garbage at the Broward County landfill familiarly known as "Mount Trashmore." (SUN SENTINEL / March 20, 2009)
COCONUT CREEK - Started as a virtual molehill nearly 40 years ago, the smelly Broward landmark dubbed Mount Trashmore has grown so enormous the city may want to top it off.
The 225-foot-high landfill bordering Coconut Creek, Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach has long been an odoriferous nuisance, say neighbors who have fought its expansion.
Now Coconut Creek officials are accusing Broward County Click here for restaurant inspection reports of making multiple errors in dealing with the landfill's growth, resulting in a mound of garbage larger than the county's own regulations allow.
As one possible solution, they may ask the county to stop piling more trash atop the landfill that can gobble up about 10,000 tons of solid waste each day. Attorneys for the city said they are not looking to have refuse already present removed, because that wouldn't be practical.
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