Neighbors concerned over DeKalb Co. landfill that was suppose to close in 2023

75-year-old Gloria Walcott and other neighbors living in communities along River Road say progress is extremely slow when converting a towering trash cell at the Seminole Landfill into a grassy mound.

“It’s been over a year, that they claim they were going to have it all nice and pretty,” Walcott said.

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Channel 2 first reported on this smell and eyesore in 2023 when homeowners noticed a towering mountain of trash. “Before I got out here, you didn’t even know it was a landfill,” Walcott told Channel 2′s Ashli Lincoln .

The landfill isn’t visible from a 2013 Google image view.

In 2023 that view changed. The county says the landfill has been active since 1977.

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