There are many closed or abandoned landfills in the Austin area. Many operated before landfills were regulated, and may pose environmental or safety risks. Their boundaries are often unknown or poorly defined.
Structures built over landfills may be at risk from soil subsidence or methane gas.
Chapter 25-1-83 of Austin’s Land Development Code addresses issues related to closed landfills.
All commercial or multi-family development applications for subdivision, site plan, and building permits on tracts more than one acre in size, or smaller tracts that are located within a landfill buffer area (see Map Library) must provide a:
- Certificate sealed by a Professional Engineer certifying the site is not over a closed landfill and describing the basis for that determination, or;
- Development permit from the TCEQ, or;
- Letter from the TCEQ stating that the project is not subject to the requirements of TAC Ch. 330, Subchapter T.
Details on many of the landfills below can be found in the 2004 Supplemental Assessment. Those not found in the assessment can be found on the Capital Area Council of Governments' website.
Forms
Map Library
To see the buffer for each site, download the overview map and then click on one of the links below.
- Airport Dump
- Balcones Research Center
- Bergstrom
- Bergstrom
- Bluff Springs-Nuckols Crossing
- Brinkley-Anderson
- Butler
- Grove
- Highway 71, Precinct 3
- Hog Hill/Handy's Dump
- Industrial Waste Materials Mgmt (Longhorn)
- Jonestown
- Austin Community Disposal (WMI)
- Mabel Davis
- McGuire
- M.E. Ruby
- Montopolis Bridge
- Moses Guerrero
- US 290 Land (Regency Park) (Travis County)
- Sprinkle
- St. Stephens
- Steiner
- IESI (Bergstrom AFB) (Travis County)
- BFI (Sunset Farms)
- Texaco Chemicals
- Turner Landfill #1
- Webberville-Govalle
- Whisenhut
- Wild Basin
- Wingfield
- Winn-Cook
- Brodie
- Harmon
- 183 Landfill
- Austin/Commercial
- Bee Cave Property
- Bergstrom AFB
- Bradshere-Flournoy
- Buda
- Congress Ave
- East Rural Center Landfill
- Eddy Ellison
- Frank Bunton
- John Sprinkle
- Kretschmarr Landfill
- L.E. Hunt
- Manorwood Development
- Old White Lime
- Pansy Howard
- Parker Ln & Riverside
- 206 Congress
- Pflugerville/Wells Point
- Pleasant Valley & Riverside
- Quarry Land
- Research Blvd Land
- River Bend Lakeland
- Springdale Park
- Steiner Ranch
- Texas Disposal Services
- Tim Dorsett Landfill
- Tim Dorsett Landfill
- Tim Dorsett Landfill
- Timberridge
- Turner Landfill #2
- Wagner/Dale
- Weir Landfill
- West Road
- Foremost Landfill
- Dougherty Arts Center
- Mexican-American Cultural Arts Center