On a hot early August afternoon, Saundra Brown stands along a quaint country lane in the Creek Side Estates subdivision off East Cherokee Drive. Throughout the neighborhood, newly built homes with hefty price tags sit one next to the other, just close enough for Brown and other residents to feel like neighbors and just far enough apart to keep things quiet and private.
It’s a calm, peaceful, “great subdivision,” said Brown, who has lived in the neighborhood near Ball Ground for about nine years.
Residents in Creek Side Estates have access to a nearby park, well-kept roads and scenic views of a thriving wilderness around. But Brown and her neighbors have one amenity most Cherokee residents don’t: a clear view of the towering, 1,200-acre Pine Bluff Landfill over the horizon.
Although menacing in appearance, Brown said no one in the neighborhood notices the sight or the activity at the waste disposal facility looming through the tree line.
“They are not working at night; they don’t work on Sundays,” she said. “I don’t really mind the dump being back there as long as they keep improving.”
Waste Management, owner of the landfill, doesn’t exactly have an easy task of keeping the impact of the sprawling facility down.
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