29 acres to become public recreational use for Murfressboro

Murfreesboro to turn landfill into park
Nashville Business Journal

The city of Murfreesboro has announced plans to reclaim about 29 acres of the Old City Landfill for public recreational use as a part of its construction of the Gateway Trail and Island.
The Gateway Trail is about 2.2 miles in length and loops around a man-made lake and island in the city's Gateway Project along Medical Center Parkway. The reclamation process will involve installing an active vacuum landfill gas collection system for the methane gas that’s produced naturally in the landfill decomposition process.
The landfill was used to dispose of domestic waste between 1968 and 1974. The landfill gas collection system will be installed after a period of sampling and testing.
The timing of the landfill gas collection work is being expedited to coordinate with construction of the trail with the goal of making both areas available for public use by next spring.