Landfill opponents press Alamance commissioners

Landfill opponents press Alamance commissioners

If members of the Alamance County Board of Commissioners needed a reminder that controversial plans for a debris landfill in the southwest part of the county will come before them soon, they got it at their meeting on Monday.

Phillippie debris landfill gets planning board OK; county commissioners to consider next month

Alamance County’s planning board has endorsed a proposed permit for a land clearing and inert debris landfill that Kenneth Phillippie hopes to establish at 4115 Clapp Mill Road in the southwestern part of the county. The planning board’s members voted 6-to-1 to recommend this contentious request to the county’s board of commissioners after a 2-hour discussion at their latest regularly-scheduled meeting on Thursday. A majority of the board’s memb…