UPDATE APRIL 29 2025: Here’s the two page resolution the City of High Point passed last May to DOUBLE the size of GFL’S massive landfill in Jamestown. That’s all it took. With no Public Notice to Jamestown residents:
[Link to the “Landfill, GFL High Point C&D” Dropbox records and files here]
GFL Construction & Demolition Landfill on Riverdale Drive in Jamestown 27282 received a new permit on Dec. 17, 2024, DOUBLING its waste intake from 315 tons per day to 700 tons per day.
Nine days later, on Dec. 26, 2024, there was a fire at the Landfill in which five tons of debris burned. A month later, on January 26, 2025, there was ANOTHER FIRE, in which four tons of debris burned.
GFL Environmental is a Canadian company, but it calls itself “WI High Point Landfill” and “High Point C&D Debris Landfill.”
GFL C&D Landfill is only 3.5 miles south of Jamestown’s Main Street. It is 8 miles east of High Point’s Main Street. GFL’s contaminated groundwater and stormwater runoff flows a little less than a mile south to Deep River and Eastside WWTP, and then 5 miles south to PTRWA Randleman Lake/Reservoir (our drinking water source).
In September (2024), we wrote about the NCDEQ’s discovery, during an onsite inspection, that GFL had DOUBLED its daily waste intake from 315 tons per day to 700 tons per day, upping its annual total intake to 218,400 tons.
When asked about it, a GFL staffer told the NCDEQ inspector that the High Point City Council voted to allow this enormous increase in waste tonnage.
Apparently, several months prior to receiving this generous gift from the City of High Point, GFL had been turned down by the engineers and experts in the NC Solid Waste Section:
The GFL C&D Landfill sits beside Kersey Valley landfill, northeast of Jackson Lake Road landfill, and northwest (and across the street from) Seaboard Chemical Dump/High Point Landfill. Stormwater and leakage from all four landfills flows to Deep River, and then continues 5 miles downstream to the PTRWA Treatment Plant and Randleman Reservoir (our drinking water).
The organization chart below, requested by the NCDEQ last year, shows GFL Environmental’s owner, operator, and aliases.
GFL gets to double its profits. We get more dump trucks leaking and trashing their way through town, more methane gas and unknown vapors in our air, more groundwater contamination, surface water contamination, and fires burning who-knows-what. Our water gets worse, our air grows unhealthier, our roads get trashier, and GFL only has to answer to the City of High Point.
