AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — In a pickup truck outfitted for Austin Resource Recovery, Christine Whitney drives on a rough gravel road.
The project manager with ARR travels through the former landfill at 10108 FM 812, Austin. The nearly 400-acre property stopped accepting waste around 2009, with post-closure measures taking place since.
Extraction wells collecting the landfill’s gas and pumps surround the road, bordering grassy hills covering decades of trash beneath…