Dumping garbage/used materials

[LBrown59]

keep in mind in most areas its illegal to dump/bury anything other than yard waste. EPD regulates it around here and will fine pretty heavy

This is what creats illegal dumps.

 

[ToadHill]

I have one spot on the property that must have been used as a dump long ago. We still find old bottles and other items in that spot. I know the dump is old since I've owned the property for 20+ years and the former owner had it for 50+ years and neither of us ever used it as a dump.

A couple of years ago the wife found the remains of a high button ladies shoe near the edge of the dump area. As the trees grow they seem to push up something new each year.

 

[LBrown59]

Here is where I get rid of a lot of stuff i don't want.

I want to pass this on.....We had an old console TV in a spare room and it was a heavy thing, anyway it finally stopped working and it had to be 20 yrs. old - it was a Zeinith TV..so I happend to be scanning Craig's list and saw an ad where the fella said he would come pick up any old TVs or other items for free... I called him and he came out and hauled it away...for free..problem solved..saved me the backache and hauling it to the landfill...so check out Craig's list and you might find the same deal...

I did see that his phone number was from our city and I did Google his phone number and verify his address and saw that he had run similiar ads over a long period of time before I gave him my information...so be careful about your security but that is sure an easy way to get rid of what is junk to you..

 

[2458n]

Scrappers are not just dealing with one buyer in our area. The local shredder will not accept wire fencing,bed springs,or worst of all wire rope or cable. These items stop the shredder from working. The resulting "birds nest" has to be cut out out of the hammers at a considerable cost. The place to take the offending material is to someone who has a mill contract. There the metal is melted as part of the furnace charge.

 

[Dutch445]

I just purchased 2 acres adjacent to my lot that has been used as
a storage yard for years. The prior owner was a trucker, and had
several old trailers, flat beds, trucks, and even a full size van
body trailer (46'). over the years, a buddy of his would bring
dump truck loads of fill, stumps, concrete, gravel, and kept
filling the edges making the lot more and more usable. for the
most part it was a swamp. I lived next to this for 5 years, and
the town was after him to clean it up, to the point that they
started levying fines. Last year I made him an offer to buy the
lot, if he cleaned the lot out. IT took 9 months for a scrap guy
to come in and cut up the iron, and take it away,, pick up truck
after pickup truck load. they also disposed of hundreds of heavy
truck tires, after cutting the rubber of the steel. I closed on the lot
this May, and spent the summer pulling some remaining debris out
and piling up a bunch of wood into a couple large burn piles, and eventually
the town dumped some shoulders/ditches there and I levelled it and
have planted grass. I do know that there is more "stuff" that I can't see, but
it is buried and I have no intentions of digging it up. Since the lot can
now be combined with my house lot, I wouldn't imagine it ever being a
problem if I sold the whole property as 1. You can't imagine the response
from the neighbors, this lot is a corner property, and the prior owner
didn't really hide the junk, so now they are all happy they don't have to
look at it! I was really the only house the could see it, but driving by
it was an eye sore from the road.
I'll have to take some "after" pics, as I do have some before pics I took
to use in the purchase offer etc.