Capping the Old Draper and Town Dump - 2013 Short Stories and Pictures Menu The Draper parking lot recycling center HOME . |
The photos above were taken on March 30 and 31.The next five below were taken on April 1. |
the report. It's 408 pages long. |
Click on the title page above to go to the Remedial Action Plan Report. |
Click on the page above to see the certificate online. |
The first paragraph in the article above refers to what we used to call "the dump" as, "...a landfill for the Draper Corp." Well yes it was, but in effect it was the town dump too. For many years everyone's trash was picked up by Draper employees, put on a Draper truck, and taken to the dump. It didn't matter if you were in a Draper house or not. They took care of every house in town. The one thing I remember from the time when the job was turned over to the town was that starting then, the homeowner would have to put their barrel out on the sidewalk on the day it was to be collected. Before that, two men would go to the backyard of each home, pick up the barrel (it would be a rare family in those days that would need more than one), bring it to the truck, empty it, and return it to the backyard. I think one reason for two men to carry a barrel between them is that the barrels provided by the company were very heavy galvanized steel, make to last for decades. After the town took over the job, probably sometime in the late 1950s, for many years the trash continued going to the same dump. |