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Thursday evening, Murfreesboro city leaders will decide whether to settle a lawsuit over alleged air and water pollution ...
The City of Murfreesboro is officially headed to court after rejecting a proposed settlement with the operators of Middle Point Lan ...
Murfreesboro City Council voted unanimously to reject a proposed settlement with Middle Point Landfill, choosing to continue their nearly three-year-long lawsuit against the facility's operators.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Murfreesboro City Council is set to decide what’s next for the Middle Point Landfill on ...
Murfreesboro officials released details about a proposed settlement with Middle Point Landfill and parent company Republic ...
The Murfreesboro government announced July 24 the proposed lawsuit settlement over environmental issues with Middle Point ...
Middle Point Landfill is a highly regulated facility that receives multiple at-random inspections annually — and often, monthly — from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation ...
Middle Point is the only Class I landfill — which can accept non-hazardous household and commercial waste — within a 50-mile radius of Nashville.
Middle Point accepted 319,577 tons of trash from the larger Davidson County in 2020, and that represented 49% of the trash shipped into Rutherford County. Prior to the 1995 contract, Davidson County ...
The city filed the lawsuit against the company Republic in 2022 because of concerns about environmental health.
In addition to the vote to reject the settlement, the council also voted to oppose any expansion of landfill capacity.