The USFS has done a major upgrade to the Beaver Brook picnic area by closing off one entrance and posting it no trucks. In the past this lot was getting trashed by solid waste truck drivers who were using it as place to park overnight and in early morning before the the large Casella landfill opened on Trudeau road in Bethlehem. The outhouses were getting trashed to the point that the FS screwed the doors shut and closed them. The revised parking lot layout would make it very difficult to get a tractor trailer into and back out of the lot.
I am not driving by in the early morning of late so I can not comment where the truckers are parking these days. Previously they would be backed up along the side of the road in wide spots all the way back to exit ramp off I93.
The landfill is rapidly nearing maximum capacity and recent significant leachate spills into the Ammonoosuc River (or its watershed) is most likely a sign that the landfill may not be open for much longer. If Casella gets its way, Dalton is the next host for a new landfill out of sight of the hiking public but just up hill from Forest Lake State Park.
I am not driving by in the early morning of late so I can not comment where the truckers are parking these days. Previously they would be backed up along the side of the road in wide spots all the way back to exit ramp off I93.
The landfill is rapidly nearing maximum capacity and recent significant leachate spills into the Ammonoosuc River (or its watershed) is most likely a sign that the landfill may not be open for much longer. If Casella gets its way, Dalton is the next host for a new landfill out of sight of the hiking public but just up hill from Forest Lake State Park.
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