DALLAS - State environmental officials are investigating the city of Dallas over the continuing hazards posed by two former landfills.
The tops of the landfills, which are located near the Trinity River and South Loop 12, are starting to erode and leak pollutants and deadly gas that pose an ongoing hazard.
Mounds of trash filled the illegal landfill, which is located at the soon-to-be site of the Trinity River Audubon Center, with hazardous wastes, which for decades was an unwanted neighbor for many living nearby.
The city of Dallas did little to nothing about it until Harold Cox filed a lawsuit.
"I was treated unfairly," he said. "I was treated deceptively."
When Cox and his neighbors won their lawsuit, the city removed, covered and remediated what was, up until the last year, still an environmental hazard.
But now, another former dump located right next door is posing new problems.
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