DUNMORE -- It takes up a 700 acre swath of Lackawanna County but many Lackawanna county residents admittedly don't know a lot about the Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Dunmore.
And some openly, don't want to know.
"To be honest it's not really one of those things I'd love to do. I mean, sure, some people are out there thinking it's alright to do but it's not really on my bucket list," said Eric Montella of Waverly.
We had many similar responses when we approached folks in Dunmore and showed them a recent newspaper ad. It is an invitation from Keystone Landfill to take a free tour of their "state-of-the-art" facility.
"I'd like to see how it operates, I really would. Because I go by the one at home and they have these big stacks coming out of the ground. I know what's coming out of those stacks, it's combustible. So, I'd like to see the system see how they operate it," said Gavin Barroman of Ontario, Canada.
The welcoming ad in the newspaper comes with convenient timing since many Lackawanna County residents and leaders in several surrounding communities are condemning the landfill's proposed expansion.
Keystone Sanitary Landfill is in the process of asking the Department of Environmental Protection to increase its height restrictions. If it's allowed, part of the landfill will be able to grow up by more than 200 feet over the course of the next 50 years.
"We seem to have a lot of them, and to make it go higher, it just seems like it would be too much," said Karen Deakle of Hamlin.
