Yamhill County Landfill Park surprise! Ken Huffer sits on DEQ information! Well, yes there have been problems in the past...

While the News Register and Parks Department officials explain opposition to Ken Huffer's legacy plan to build a park next to the unlined and sometimes leaking Riverbend landfill in Yamhill County as a "Not in My Backyard," sort of selfish complaint, it turns out that local residents may have a point.
Living next to the old dump and hearing many stories of contaminated wells, lawsuits with gag orders, and the occasional spring of nasty goop leaking into the river, it comes as no surprise that the DEQ may have additional information that might bear on the decision.
Yamhill County did purchase land to insure a "buffer zone" around the old dump but as part of that agreement the people involved were not allowed to talk about it, or so we have always heard.
What is a surprise is that Ken Huffer, head of the parks department and primary proponent of the dump, wrote to DEQ for info and chose not to include the info in his report to the planning commission or the County Commissioners.
Whether or not this info really has bearing on the case is probably less important than the fact that illustrates how government works. A petty official comes up with a plan that will build his/her resume' as a step up to the next job. He/she does what it takes to get it through, after all he/she is not going to touch the green stuff that is oozing out of the river bank, and he is certainly not going to attempt to take a semi-truck through Amity...
Here is the link.