DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — 75-year-old Gloria Walcott and other neighbors living in communities along River Road say progress is extremely slow when converting a towering trash cell at the Seminole Landfill into a grassy mound.
“It’s been over a year, that they claim they were going to have it all nice and pretty,” Walcott said.
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Channel 2 first reported on this smell and eyesore in 2023 when homeowners noticed a towering mountain of trash. “Before I got out here, you didn’t even know it was a landfill,” Walcott told Channel 2′s Ashli Lincoln.
The landfill isn’t visible from a 2013 Google image view.
In 2023 that view changed. The county says the landfill has been active since 1977.
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In July of 2023, the county said the open cell in the facility was no longer active and was in the process of being covered with grass.
However, homeowners said last week they saw trucks still dumping trash on the hill.
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DeKalb County told Channel 2 it was awarded more than $193,000 this month for grass seeds to cover the inactive cell.
But homeowners are questioning a section of the cell where they say dumping has been ongoing and visible to their community.
“I’m disappointed, because I thought by now, over a year and a half later, it would be nice pretty and the smell would be dissipated,” Walcott said.
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