Growing Skepticism

The facility operators for the landfill in Frederick County, Maryland, currently have waste disposed nearly 570 feet above sea level and want to add another 107 feet to the waste pile. But lingering fears over vertical expansion are stalling the plans. Writing for the News-Post, Pamela Rigaux even cites an Ohio landfill’s vertical expansion failure from the mid-1990s–underscoring the effect of a poorly planned or executed project upon an entire engineering sector many years later.