The trial over a lawsuit filed by Marlboro County against the Department of Health and Environmental Control involving a mega dump is over, but the judge has not made a decision and it could take till the middle of March before he does.
The county is challenging DHEC's issuance of a permit to a company that wants to build a mega dump in the northern part of Marlboro County.
In 2007, DHEC issued what's called a demonstration of need permit to MRR, a company that wants to build the mega dump on a 900 plus acre site in Wallace.
The landfill would take in trash from all over the east coast.
Attorneys from Marlboro County are challenging state law as it relates to the demonstration of need requirements for landfills.
"My hope is that the judge will see the validity of the lack of need for a landfill in Marlboro County. Marlboro County only generates 13,000 tons of waste per year, surely that doesn't constitute a 932 acre landfill that would consume that 13,000 tons a year in a period of three weeks," says Tom Wood, a resident against the mega dump.
In 2008, nearly 94% of voters opposed the landfill in a non-binding referendum.
The mega dump site issue is the center of at least three other lawsuits in Marlboro County.
