“The site will be cleaned up and the (new owners) will be expanding the logistics center located next door,” according to a statement from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.
The new owner’s corrective action plan, filed with Georgia EPD on Aug. 31, 2023, says the site includes a vacant, dilapidated house and an office trailer, and had been used as a “concrete and wood recycling center.”
The plan calls for having a waste management company do the cleanup, then adding fill and gravel to prepare the site for truck parking and trailer storage. It projects an August 2024 completion date.
Ned Mahic, executive chairman of 9606 Capital LLC, agreed via email to a phone interview but then stopped responding.
The corrective action plan notes that evidence of lead contamination was found in the soil at least 13 feet down. If that can be “safely accessed,” it will be dug up and disposed of or treated off-site, the plan says. Three groundwater monitoring wells are to be installed.
County property records indicate that the landfill’s previous owner, Tandy Ross Bullock, bought the land for $243,000 in June 2005.
Bullock Construction, “a construction materials recycling center,” occupied the property since at least 2007, the corrective action plan says. Fulton County started getting complaints by 2007 about illegal dumping on the site. Between June 2017 and April 2019, Georgia EPD visited the site 40 times and documented a growing mound of debris, according to court paperwork. The accumulation was eventually described as a 60-foot-high mound.
No more complaints have come in since the property was sold to 9606 Capital, according to Sara Lips, Georgia EPD’s director of communications and community engagement.
Georgia EPD does not keep a comprehensive list of illegal dump sites, which vary widely in size, Lips said. The agency got 460 complaints of solid waste violations statewide in 2023, with about 200 of them in metro Atlanta, she said.
“In general,…
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