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[quote user="BNSFwatcher"] That's a long way for garbage to go!  I thought they were dumping it down abandoned anthracite coal mine shafts in eastern Pennsylvania.  Either way, better than dumping it in the ocean. Hays [/quote] It is a long way to go.  As I remember the discussions about hauling the garbage to Texas, no one else would take it.  Putting it in an abandoned coal mine was not a viable option.  Hudspeth County, which is in the middle of nowhere, took the garbage because of conducive geological conditions and the jobs that the sludge plant would create.  Also, the Texas legislature quickly passed legislation to issue the necessary permits.  Nothing gets the attention of the Lone Star State's legislators like the opportunity to enhance state revenues without resorting to an income tax.     Hudspeth County, where 40 per cent of the population is below the poverty line, is like a third world country.  County officials were glad to get the jobs and revenues generated by the sludge plant.  Some of the residents in Sierra Blanca, as well as environmentalists from everywhere, claim the plant has led to increase rates of illness.  Moreover, they claim that the plant generates unwelcome odors.  I have been to Sierra Blanca numerous times.  I had never detected an unusual order.  I cannot comment regarding the health issues.   One of the drivers for hauling the garbage to west Texas was a ruling by the EPA, as well as the appropriate international regulatory bodies, that New York City could no longer dump its garbage in the oceans, which is what they had been doing.
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