Environmental complaint received 2020-09-21 09:00:00
Source: Seminole Landfill
Source location: 4203 Clevemont Rd
Ellenwood, Georgia
Complaint location: Seminole Landfill
4203 Clevemont Rd

My name is Jakia Cox and I am 18 years old. I live in the Rockmill Drive neighborhood, which is a half a mile away from the Seminole Road Landfill. This morning, and many mornings preceding this email, I have awoken to a fetid, noxious air in my room coming from outside. Walking outside can be even worse, sometimes to the point of causing nausea. When my parents moved here in 2001, they were concerned about the landfill's relative closeness to our home, but were reassured that the landfill would close in "a few years." It has been almost 20 years since they were told that, but there has been no definite attempt to do so that I know of, and the mountain made of trash in my front yard continues to grow each day.