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 |