Benefit to our host community: Sunland Park, New Mexico

The Camino Real Landfill is located in Sunland Park, New Mexico. When the Landfill was first developed in 1987, there were fewer than 8,000 residents in the tiny community. Today (2006), the population has almost doubled, and new homes are being built almost to the edge of the Landfill.

Camino Real is proud to be a good neighbor and contributing major business in Sunland Park. Every year, the Camino Real Landfill gives back to our host community almost $1,200,000 both in actual dollars (contributed to the City of Sunland Park general fund), and through in-kind services to the community.

We operate in a sand hill environment. So, we have a dust control plan that far exceeds minimum standards set by state and federal regulators. The labor and equipment-intensive plan includes paving access roads, re-growing naturally occurring local vegetative cover over soil we've disturbed (utilizing organic material like pecan shells and straw), and creating unconventional vegetated soil barriers, like a 2000-foot long, fifty-foot high berm between the landfill and the surrounding community. To provide additional screening, the berm is topped with mature oleanders.

In addition to dust control, Camino Real has an intensive litter control plan that involves the deployment of portable 12 foot-high wind fences, thousands of feet of permanent "snow fencing", boundary litter fencing along the berm, and a full-time litter collection crew.

 

Roll-offs, containers, equipment (in kind services)	$ 50,000
Host agreement fees	$ 235,526
Water development fee	$ 32,590
Free waste disposal to residents	$ 56,687
Free waste disposal to the city Sunland Park	$ 226,767
Free sludge disposal to the city of Sunland Park	$ 155,785
Gross Receipt Tax	$ 565,340
Donations to local organizations	$ 18,000
2004 Total	$ 1,340,695
Estimated value to Sunland Park community over the next twenty years:	$26,813,900