County clash looms over landfill for ash
Posted: August 30, 2009 at 5:37 a.m.
Almost every day, a train pulls into a rail yard in rural Alabama, hauling 8,500 tons of a disaster that occurred 350 miles away to a final resting place, the Arrowhead Landfill here in Perry County, which is very poor and whose population is almost 70 percent black.
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