Dive Brief:

• A community in Mesquite, Nevada is experiencing earthquake-like movement in their homes, which many residents have attributed to construction over a former landfill. They claim the landfill is causing houses to shake and shift as the structures sink into the earth.
• Homeowners in a neighborhood known as Highland Hills think that nearly half of their homes were built within a buffer zone that was supposed to be off-limits, as it surrounded the closed Mesquite landfill.
• The RFMS, Inc. project manager told the Spectrum that the buffer included tracts of land that extended far past what the building company thought. 

Dive Insight:

A consulting company discovered that as many as eight out of 68 houses were constructed on the landfill itself, with some of the rest built inside the buffer; this was supposed to be a restricted area. The city is aware of the complaints and is looking into the claims. Residents assert that their homes are slowly deteriorating as they sink into the earth and that methane is being released into the air.