Landfill & Illegal Dump Site Closures

FUNDING SOURCE(S): External, General Funds, and Private
FUNDED AMOUNT: $3 million
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: These projects close and capped seven (7) landfills and clean closed seventy-four (74)  surface scattered illegal dump sites throughout the Navajo Nation.
Project Name Agency/Chapter Project Year Number of LF/Sites Funding Source
Shiprock/Hogback Landfill & Clean Closure Northern/Shiprock 1999 1 Landfill
15 Sites
General Funds
Leupp Landfill & Birdsprings
Clean Closure
Western/Birdsprings &
Leupp
2000/2002 1 Landfill
8 Sites
Interagency Solid Waste Work
Group/General Funds
Tolani Lake Clean Closure Western/Tolani Lake 2000 5 Sites General Funds
Tohajiilee Clean Closure Eastern/Tohajiilee 2001 3 Sites General Funds
Upper Fruitland Clean Closure Northern/Upper Fruitland 2002 1 Site Interagency Solid Waste Work Group
Halchita Landfill &
Clean Closure
Western/Oljato 2002 1 Landfill
9 Sites
Interagency Solid Waste Work
Group/General Funds
Teesto Landfill & Ganado/Indian
Wells Clean Closure
Ft Defiance/Ganado,
Indian Wells & Teesto
2002 1 Landfill
10 Sites
US EPA Water Quality-Section 319/General Funds
Cedar Ridge Landfill &
Bodaway/Gap Clean Closure
Western/Bodaway &
Coppermine
2003 1 Landfill
8 Sites
US EPA Water Quality-Section 319/General Funds
Alamo Landfill & Clean Closure Eastern/Alamo 2003 1 Landfill
3 Sites
General Funds
Kayenta Landfill & Clean Closure Western/Kayenta 2004 1 Landfill
1 Site
Interagency Solid Waste Work
Group
General Funds
Chaco Wash Clean Closure Northern/San Juan 2004 3 Sites US EPA Water Quality-Section
319/General Funds
Nenahnezad & Upper Fruitland Clean Closure Northern/Nenahnezad & Upper Fruitland 2005 3 Sites Interagency Solid Waste Work
Group
Cameron Clean Closure Project
Phase I
Western/Cameron 2007 1 Site Tribal Solid Waste
Management Assistance
Project
Ridge Dump Site Western/Bird Springs 2000 1 Site El Paso Gas/Transwestern Pipeline
Greasewood Springs Ft Defiance/
Greasewood Springs
2000 4 Sites Greasewood Springs Chapter