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Escambia To Purchase Land Where Trash Inadvertently Buried
November 17, 2011
Escambia County is set to purchase about 15 acres of land in North Escambia where trash was inadvertently buried over 20 years ago.
The county will pay RMS Timberlands $52,879 for the 14.81 acres along Camp Road and Pine Barren Road. The property is adjacent to the former county-owned Camp V Landfill, which closed in June 1988, and a current Escambia County Road Camp.
According to county documents, “It is confirmed that during operational activities, municipal waste was inadvertently buried outside defined waste limits onto adjacent property to the south. In addition, there are documented groundwater impacts associated with same property.”
RMS Timberlands attempted to sell the property to Gulf Power as part of the 4,000 acres the utility is acquiring in the area for a potential nuclear power plant. Due to the waste and groundwater issues, Gulf Power declined to purchase the property and turned to Escambia County to buy the land.
Purchasing the property will allow Escambia County to continue monitoring activities under Florida Department of Environmental Protection regulations.
The Escambia County Commission is expected to approve the purchase at their regular meeting Thursday night.
Pictured top: The property to be purchased by Escambia County is near the county road camp at Camp and Bratt Roads. Pictured inset: This NorthEscambia.com graphic shows the property bounded by Camp Road to the east, Pine Barren Road and Breastworks Road to the south.
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13 Responses to “Escambia To Purchase Land Where Trash Inadvertently Buried”
REGARDING:
“they can find money when they want to do something with it.”
Please try to consider it from the owner’s viewpoint: He had land he wanted to sell. He had a buyer up until they both discovered the county had used it as a landfill without permission. The buyer was no longer interested in buying. The seller’s prospects had been harmed by the county’s actions.
If you were in his situation, wouldn’t you want to be made whole?
As a citizen of the county do you deny your responsibility?
Not so sure about the gun range concept, though. Nuclear power is dangerous if not dealt with carefully. Stray bullets might be distracting. Even if the targets were in the opposite direction, some shooters would likely miss that badly.
David for proper use of deep clay gullies
oh my lord county spending more money that they dont have.the can find money when they want to do something with it. they can give a horse person 60,000 a year so why not buy some more land to.they should have to buy all the foreclosed houses in escambia county to cause they are running people out of escambia county because they want let no companies come in here to create jobs.i see why peope are moving to ala.and every other state that tries to get companies to come in and create jobs.
I’m with the idea of putting a gun range on the land
Gulf power should buy the place and not let taxpayers pick up the bill for the cleanup so they can get a sweet deal when they buy it from the county a a later date.
Whats a little buried trash next to what a nuclear plant is capable of producing?
Ask Japan !!!!
The gun range is a great idea. I do not know if some of these transplants could handle the idea. The last time I checked, you could legally discharge firearms on private property, outside the city limiths?
“Sounds like a great location for a gun range.”
And then we can contaminate the property with lead and kill everyone with that. The company I work for is cleaning up 6 different shooting ranges now so I could use the job security.
REGARDING:
“How do you “accidentally” bury trash???”
They intentionally buried the trash. At a guess they just didnt’ notice they had gone past their property line.
David for mining landfills
Jane I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if Gulf Power wants a piece of property bad enough they will get it under imminent domain.
So if you don’t want a nuclear plant in this area….stop selling land to Gulf Power!!! If they don’t have anywhere to put it we won’t have to worry, will we???
How do you “accidentally” bury trash??? Makes no sence to me.
Sounds like a great location for a gun range.
REGARDING:
” Due to the waste and groundwater issues, Gulf Power declined to purchase the property and turned to Escambia County to buy the land.”
This makes sense. You wouldn’t want to start out with a nuclear power site already contaminated. It’s interesting to consider that our county government workers just piled up waste wherever they wished.
Oh for the good old days.
The way this reads, though, Gulf Power turned to Escambia County to buy the land, whereas Gulf Power didn’t own it to sell it. That makes less sense.
David for perfect workers
maybe we need to know more about what gulf power is up to. I don’t want nuclear waste any where close to wher we live…….. If there is already a problem there we need to make sure they do a clean up for us and our future generations.