Delaware's Cherry Island- A Growing Mountain of Garbage

August 24, 2009- It bulges from the riverside landscape near East 12th Street, a bustling and costly monument to leftovers in a land of plenty, a place where northern Delaware's trash and castoffs become part of the skyline. Named Cherry Island after the marsh that it buried, the east Wilmington landfill has emerged as a symbol of Delaware's troubled history of waste management and the Delaware Solid Waste Authority's role in that story.

"I'm against it 100 percent. It's not healthy. I think they should find somewhere else to put that stuff," said Karoyn C. Fitzgerald, a lifelong Wilmington resident who lives in Southbridge. "I'm wondering why they're doing it in south Wilmington. It seems like it's been the low-income areas where they just dump stuff, because they think nobody will say anything."

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