Puente Hills Landfill

USA / California / Avocado Heights /
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Currently the largest operating landfill in the United States (if not the world).
Update - As of October 31, 2013, the landfill's operating permit has been terminated and it no longer accepts new refuse.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_Hills_Landfill
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Coordinates:   34°0'50"N   118°0'40"W

Comments

  • Odd that the largest landfill and the largest cemetery are next door neighbors.
  • Ironically this is also the approximate location in the 1955 movie version of "War Of The Worlds" where the Atomic Bomb was dropped on an enclave of Martians (with no effect)
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