University doesn't want role in sealing the landfill
A state-run auction next month to sell about a third of Tumamoc Hill have brought the landfill covered with UA waste to the forefront of discussion.
Ongoing talks concerning what will happen to about 365,000 tons of waste in the landfill disposed by the UA and the city of Tucson during the 1960s may not be resolved for quite awhile, UA officials said.
The dialogue has been going on for the last two decades.
After almost 40 years, the waste is now exposed, and malodorous landfill gas seeps out of the ground, said Jay Quade, director of the UA Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill.
"We are in the middle of negotiations, we haven't reached a decision yet," said M.J. Dillard, senior engineering associate for the solid waste management department.
No environmental testing was conducted on the landfill and whether the landfill contains any hazardous substance is unknown, Dillard said.
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