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Golf courses or landfills?

Opening June 1, 2000 Phoenix golf links was built over a landfill in Columbus Ohio.  It is located 4 miles south of downtown Columbus.  It was the first golf coures in Ohio built over a landfill.  The cost of taking care of the landfills got to be alot so they designed a golf couse to lower cost.  When SWACO (solid waste authority of central Ohio) teamed up with petro environmental they only payed for the maintenance of the landfill.  It saves them over 100 grand a year.  Designing this course was not easy let alone it was being built over a landfill.  One bad thing is that since it`s built over a landfill there can`t be any trees.  The course smells really bad but you have to take in that you`re on a landfill.  They got rid of most the smell when they inserted this vacuum type thing that took in the gas that produced the smell.  After it takes in the gas it turns it into energy that could light up 20,000 homes if needed.  Because the course is public it gets a lot of visitors.  In the first month it sold over 3,300 rounds!