Solid waste director Fonda Davis says the deer carcass container on Pal Rivers Road will stay where it is even if it posing a problem for the local airport.
The county was seeking an alternate location for the container further from the airport because some hunters are tossing the deer carcasses outside of the bin where they draw buzzards and create a hazard for pilots.
He said they looked at a number of alternate locations but none were suitable.
At this point the county will just leave it there and try to police it better to mimimize any risk to planes.
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.
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