A glimpse into the trunk told the attendant that I had serious debris. This landfill is south of Conley Creek, a tributary of the South River, not far from the Henry County line in southern DeKalb County. I drove along Clevemont Road, wondering whether it bothered people to live near the county dump, and swerved to miss a dead rat the size of a Chihuahua. On River Road, somebody was using DeKalb Federal's money to build something, apparently condos. It's a good bet the brochures for the place will not mention the local landfill.
Garbage is a political matter.
The landfill is not in Dunwoody or Druid Hills or Chamblee, where its effect on property values would be intolerable. And hands-on waste disposal is always a job for black people. I rumbled down a winding dirt road, past a mountain of old tires into the dumping site, a vast plain of muddy red clay ringed by a sloping ridge. Surprisingly, there was no stench. Several huge bulldozers roamed, burying junk as fast as people could dump it.