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13-Sep-13, 18:10
The Caithness Business Index (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk) has posted the following article:

Newtonhill Woodland/ Landfill Car Park Closed to Public



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The Highland Council is advising people that the car park immediately adjoining the former landfill site at Newtonhill in Caithness is to be closed in the interests of public safety, with visitors to be directed to the nearby Newtonhill Croft Community Woodland. The landfill was operated by the former Caithness County and District Councils from the mid 1960s until its closure in the mid 1970s and was managed as a community woodland between 1996 and 2008, when the site was closed for reasons of public safety, due to the presence of substances in the soils including heavy metals, arsenic and asbestos. ... [Read Full Article (http://www.caithness-business.co.uk/article.php?id=4288)]