Solid waste director Fonda Davis says the county may need to move one of the deer carcass containers to a new location because it is drawing buzzards.
The county began providing the containers about 10 years ago so hunters would have a legal way to dispose of deer carcasses.
Before the containers were provided some hunters dumped their deer carcasses along roadsides and in waterways.
Every year the landfill sets up three containers strategically located near popular hunting areas.
The deer carcasses the county collects are either incinerated or used in the county’s composting project.
The containers are at the Parking lot of the DW Wilson Ball Field on Pal Rivers Road in Apalachicola, at bear Creek Road on Highway 65 in Eastpoint and at Cypress Slough, just north of the State Prison, on Highway 67 in Carrabelle.
The problem is, some hunters who use the container on Pal Rivers Road are not actually throwing the carcasses in the container but leaving them on the ground which is drawing buzzards and creating a hazard for the nearby Apalachicola airport.
Fonda said he is in the process of looking for a site to relocate the receptacle.
The Abercrombie Boat ramp is under consideration – that site is under video surveillance which might allow the county to find out who is misusing the service.
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