QUESTION: Why does the city of Burlington use the privately-owned Phillippie Landfill to dispose of tree limbs and other debris that are also accepted at Alamance County’s landfill in Saxapahaw?
ANSWER: There has been a fair amount of interest lately in Kenneth Phillippie’s waste disposal interests due to contentious proposal he has before Alamance County’s leaders to establish a new dumping ground for land clearing and inert debris.
But even without this prospective new operation at 4115 Clapp Mill Road, Phillippie is already doing brisk business at an existing “stump dump” along Kimesville Road in Alamance County’s Coble Township.
According to Burlington’s public works director Gary Smith, this Kimesville Road site is one of two locations that the city of Burlington uses for the disposal of tree limbs, yard waste, and similar refuse.
“We use both the Phillippie landfill and the Alamance County landfill,” Smith elaborated in an interview Tuesday. “We may go to Phillippie’s site if we’re closer to it. But if time isn’t an issue, we’ll probably use the county landfill.”
Smith added that these two locations are the only ones that the city currently uses for land clearing and inert debris – and for reasons that ought not to strain anyone’s sensibilities.
“They are the only two that are permitted for this kind of waste,” he explained.
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