The massive and growing pile of tires outside the village of Wagon Mound is on New Mexico State Trust land, but the man responsible for it won't call it a dump. He said the project helps the land despite the possibility that taxpayers may one day have to pay to clean up all that rubber. "With the blessing of the environmental department, we started that project down there," said Harold Daniels, a Wagon Mound-area rancher and businessman who has leased the state land in question for at least the last decade. "It's not a tire dump. It's an erosion-control project." Officials at the New Mexico Environment Department admit they originally authorized tires to be used as erosion control in a 15-foot-deep arroyo that runs through the property. Pictures from 2006 seem to support that project as a form of erosion control...more
Here's the KRQE-TV report:
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Not to worry, one good lightning strike will clean it up. Kingman, Az and Hawkins, Tx (just over the hill) come to mind. Or, wtf, who's gonna remember 10,000 years from now?
If you're waitin' for the politicians to clean it up I hope you ain't holding your breath.
http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/tires/fires.htm
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