Where's the Landfill Near IF? (Idaho Falls: appliances, homes, transfer)

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Hi All,
Was studying Idaho Falls and searching for the usuals on google maps... grocery stores, shopping, etc.

As part of the search for things to avoid... did a landfill search... didn't see anything other than a transfer station.

Anyone know where the landfill is?

[banjomike]

The main landfill is southeast of Idaho Falls, up in the foothills outside of town.
It's one of the modern ones that has a sealed barrier on the bottom and is vented. Only the city sanitation trucks are allowed to enter it.

The citizens use the transfer station located within the city limits on the northeast side of town do dump garbage, old furniture, etc. The station also has specific dumps for old paint, electronics, appliances, and other stuff that is hazardous.

Leftover paint has to be solidified with cat litter or hardened completely in the can before it can be disposed of. There are a few similar items that require some extra treatment. The personnel at the station can provide all the info as to the necessary procedures.

No fee is charged at the transfer station, but the items will be inspected before they can be dumped off.

There's another dump used for only solid waste and solid bio-degradeable waste; construction waste such as old lumber and bricks, tree limbs, garden trash, and other similar stuff. No garbage and no hazardous materials. It's located just north of the city limits.

This dump has a fee, and the load will be inspected.

When it is declared full, the dump will be top soiled and turned into a public park, as I recall. The plans were made many years ago to keep the land from becoming future homesites in the 1990s.

There are several old closed landfills in the county, but none that I know of within Idaho Falls city limits.

There may be a 100-year or older dump within city limits now that I don't know about.
Turning old dumps into parkland was an old solution to re-purposing a closed dump here. It was a good way from preventing them from becoming a public nuisance.

But almost all of our city parks were never dumping grounds. Most were former farmsteads, while others were odd pieces of sub-development land that was never used for housing. Many were platted to be parkland from the start.

When all this country was covered with sagebrush, a patch of nothing but grass with some shade trees and flowers was a real treasure for our pioneer City Mothers and their children.