Dive Brief:

• A developer has applied for a permit for a landfill project that includes rezoning the area in Hansel Valley, UT. The proposed location sits on an earthquake fault line.
• Residents in the community are against the landfill being constructed in that particular area, which many believe will be too close to a series of culinary wells, a source of water for public consumption. 
• The company behind the landfill, Ogden’s Moulding & Sons Landfill Inc., started the process to obtain a permit for the 2,200 acre landfill on April 18.

Dive Insight:

The fault line is the site of the largest earthquake in Utah to date. The 1934 earthquake had a recorded magnitude of 6.6 on the Richter scale and killed two people.