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The property on Bond Road, where the dump is located, has been used for agriculture by several owners over the past hundred years. In the late 1950's the owner added more property to the farm and sold it to realtors, Chester and Vivian Wilson. In 1968 the Wilson's leased the property to Jennings Sanitary Dump System Inc., with Robert Jennings (Clerk of Courts, Hamilton County) as operator. This began the property's history as a dump. The open dumping of waste began in the ravines of the land. No one is sure what types of materials were dumped or their source. In 1973 Browning Ferris Industries (BFI) took over the lease and operations of the dump.Materials from industries such as Monsanto were dumped there. Monsanto Inc. purchased the property in 1980 but BFI continued operating the facility. In 1981 BFI stated that unknown quantities of hazardous waste were dumped in the landfill. None of the hazardous materials, including the unknown hazards, have ever been removed. Twenty-five acres in Indiana were added to the landfill in 1980. Monsanto used dirt from Indiana to cover the waste on the Ohio side. This practice was objected to by Indiana authorities.

DEFICIENCIES AS DUMP SITE:
Fractured bedrock
Dump run-off into Whitewater River.
Slope stability (design same as a Rumpke's Colerain Avenue site which experienced 33 acre slide)

• There have been hazardous chemicals dumped in this "non-hazardous" dump in the past - documented by Hamilton County Board of Health and the Ohio EPA. Now they want to mix industrial chemicals and household waste.
• Bright Indiana (Tri-Township Water Corporation) is now on a deep well water supply.
• Health hazards, including increase in bird population carrying disease.
• New Bright Elementary School is 3,900 feet away.
• Over 1,000 residents within 1 mile and community of Bright, IN within 2 miles.
• Local roads cannot support the 250 daily - 16 ton each truck traffic which will be generated by this dump.There are 4 different school districts which have school buses at least 3 times daily using these same roads.
• Monsanto has promised the local residents for years that when they no longer needed the dump it would close and become a "green space".
• Not necessary for municipal waste disposal in the 15 year plan for Hamilton County.
• We do not need a Mount Rumpke 2 disaster.

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