"Google Earth" (used as a verb) Dutch Springs. It is now surrounded by warehouses.
Taking all values from the internet (and using lowball estimates) we could guesstimate the value of Dutch as a hole in the ground that could handle all the garbage that those warehouses could possibly generate.
1 Acre = 43,560 sqft
40 acres = 1.7 million sqft
at an average depth of 30 feet, the hole in the ground comes out to be a bit over 50 million cuft
compacted municipal waste is given as 20-25 pounds per cuft.
so we have 1,000 million pounds as capacity, or 500,000 tons
average cost to landfill municipal solid waste (MSW) is $53.72 per ton.
$25M. That is going to be a hard number to overcome for divers.
The quarry is in the dead center of a huge trucking operation. Backhauling MSW from some areas of the country could be stupidly lucrative...
You want a good alternative? Buy out the fish farm that keeps Willow Springs green.
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