UPDATE APRIL 29 2025: Here’s the two page resolution the City of High Point passed last May allowing a DOUBLING in waste intake capacity at Construction & Demolition Landfill on Riverdale Drive in Jamestown 27282. The City of High Point gave no Public Notice to the residents of Jamestown:

[Link to the “Landfill, GFL High Point C&D” Dropbox records and files here]

GFL Landfill its new permit on Dec. 17, 2024, doubling its 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 appears in some of the NC public records as “WI High Point Landfill” or “High Point C&D Debris Landfill.”

The GFL C&D Landfill is 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.

Several months prior to receiving this “increase” 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 next to Kersey Valley landfill, northeast of Jackson Lake Road landfill, and northwest (and across the street from) Seaboard Chemical Dump/High Point Landfill. Stormwater, groundwater and leachate 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.

Map showing the location of the landfills in Jamestown 27282: