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Originally Posted by Jim 9922
"Mt. Morse" was well discussed several years ago when the Developer bought the whole dairy farm except the operating dump area. (who really wants to know what has been buried there over the years?); then turned the lemon into lemonade by building golf courses on the sides of the dump, planting pine trees around the top, and selling it as golf front property (which it is). In those days there weren't a whole lot of sales people who would voluntarily fess up as to what the "Pine Ridge" up in the slopes, in the "distance", really was. As for continued operations, the permit was recently renewed for several years into the future.
If you like the smell now, wait until the cool foggy November, February and March mornings after we've had several days of rainy weather. All that rotting "vegetation", those sulfides in the dumped drywall and construction debris, and the little bit of garbage that gets thrown into the construction dumpsters; sometimes they can't cover it over with dirt fast enough.
Rumor has it that Mt. Morse will be the base of operations for The Villages Astronomy Club when it is eventually capped over.
Hopefully the base ground layer was well constructed of clay and an adequate drainage system built so that the dump doesn't become a future polluter of our well water and that they are building a gas collector system to capture all the methane and other gasses created by the decomposing mound of debris. .
So all in all, yes, we have a dump in the middle of The Villages.
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The developer did not purchase the “whole”dairy farm. He purchased some of the acreage left to the 1st Baptist Church of Leesburg in the will of the woman who owned the dairy farm. A second piece, retained by the Baptist Church, is going to be the site of a new church campus.
I don’t believe the developer owns the landfill. It is owned by Hewitt Contracting. Owner/officer info is noted below:
Key People Who owns Hewitt Contracting Company, Inc.
Name
Howard H. Hewitt 21
~ Background Report ~
President Secretary Director Treasurer
Sarah L. Hewitt 3
~ Background Report ~
Director Vice President
Harry W. Hawes 9
~ Background Report ~
Treasurer
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Known Addresses for Hewitt Contracting Company, Inc.
PO Box 490697 Leesburg, FL 34749
3839 County Road 48 Okahumpka, FL 34762
3839 County Road 48P Leesburg, FL 34749
Hewitt also owns other similar sites in central FL.
No sense letting the developer take blame for something. A little research goes a long way.
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