BREAKING: Residents of Wise County, Texas thought about it for a few minutes and realize that it might not be a good idea to locate a new landfill near a river that supplies their drinking water as runoff from a mountain of garbage could be hazardous, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.
“We just really feel that it is not a viable location. We and the property owners just have a lot of questions,” said Wise County Judge [“Judge” is the title of the top elected official in each Texas county, they do not preside over courts, unless they also happen to be a jurist] JD Clark said.
That’s fucking crazy, right? You’d think a state that would elect Ken Paxton to serve as its top law enforcement official wouldn’t care if their drinking water was polluted with rainwater that mixes in with batteries that didn’t get recycled and soiled baby diapers and who the hell knows what else kind of awfulness. There might be hope for Texas just yet… Maybe. Probably not though.