{"id":3186,"date":"2026-05-13T19:06:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:06:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T23:06:41","slug":"train-traffic-through-region-to-increase-as-miami-dade-sends-trash-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=3186","title":{"rendered":"Train Traffic Through Region To Increase As Miami-Dade Sends Trash North"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-1778711419755.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"757\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-1778711419755.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-1778711419755.png 757w, https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-1778711419755-300x130.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you regularly commute near CSX rail lines in the area, expect longer delays for the next several years,<br>Plans are under way to send 5,000 tons a week of garbage from Miami-Dade County by rail through the area to a private landfill in Bushnell in Sumter County.<br>That means an extra 50 rail cars a week on northbound freight trains. through at least 2032.<br>The move comes after Miami-Dade officials continue looking for ways to get rid of their trash after a trash incinerator that was handling a lot of the volume residents and businesses generated burned down in 2023 and public opposition from various groups including Sierra Club has blocked plans to build a new incinerator.<br>Sierra&#8217;s position is that Miami-Dade officials should do more to reduce the need for more waste disposal by focusing on more recycling, and composting.<br>But since that&#8217;s not happening, and Miami-Dade has limited landfill space the trash trains are seen as an alternative. <br>That approach reportedly has caused a backlash from rural residents in Sumter County who live near the Heart of Florida landfill, which is building a rail siding to receive the shipments.<br>The residents are reportedly concerned about increased odors and the impact on their wells from a plan to use deep well injection to get rid of the landfill&#8217;s [leachate. <br>Just in case you were wondering, Polk County&#8217;s North Central Landfill has adequate capacity for the next 100 years or so after the County Commission approved a plan in 2000 to allow the landfill height to increase significantly.<br>Its leachate is treated in series of on-site ponds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you regularly commute near CSX rail lines in the area, expect longer delays for the next several years,Plans are under way to send 5,000 tons a week of garbage from Miami-Dade County by rail through the area to a private landfill in Bushnell in Sumter County.That means an extra 50 rail cars a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}