Beulah Landfill

Escambia County used the landfill 1950–1984. The landfill was operated in two sections, bisected by the Coffee Creek, with the northern section accepting normal municipal waste. The southern section initially accepted industrial waste, in addition to industrial waste. This waste was buried in unlined cells, anywhere between four and thirty five feet deep. In 1968, the southern section began accepting domestic sludge and sewage, and municipal sludge leftover from wastewater treatment operations. This waste was buried in unlined holding and drying ponds, which were later filled with construction and demolition debris when they became saturated. The ponds were covered over in 1976, however the following year sludge was again deposited on top of the ponds. Before to the landfill was closed in 1999, the site's northern and southern sections were run separately. In 1980, a Florida Department of Environmental Regulation inspection of the site observed leachate from the site flowing into the Coffee Creek.[1] The site closed as a landfill in 1984. The site was on the National Priorities List in 1990 but was deleted in 1998.

In 1990, on-site contaminants at "probable health concern levels" included lead, thallium, benzene, chloroform, chlordane, and polychlorinated biphenyls. The contaminants could easily drain out of the property, with part of the site built on easily draining sand from the original course of the Coffee Creek, and six ten-inch drainage pipes drained directly into the nearby Eleven Mile Creek. Waste had also been released into the creek due to several ruptures of the containing clay berm in the past.[1]

• "Beulah Landfill" (PDF). Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
• "Beulah Landfill (Region 4: Superfund)". United States Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved December 20, 2012.