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Environmental Park


5115 N.E. 63rd Ave.

Gainesville, Florida
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(352) 334-0172
 

Hours
Weekdays 7:00am - 5:00pm
Saturday 7:00am - noon

The Leveda Brown Environmental Park will be closed on the following Holidays:

Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Day, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday (observed), Memorial Day and the Fourth of July.

Brief History of the Environmental Park

The early 1990s addressed the need to close the Southwest Landfill due to limited capacity for the operation. A committee was formed to find a new site. After many long hours and many concerns from residents, the option of opening an Environmental Park and Transfer Station was approved. It was later determined that the waste generated in Alachua County would be hauled to the New River Solid Waste Facility in Raiford, Florida.

During this time, the increased participation in recycling programs lengthened the life of the Southwest Landfill by five years.

In 1997, a private contractor was hired to build the Transfer Station outside of Gainesville on Waldo Road (SR 24). Under the direction of the Public Works Director, construction began in February of 1998. The site would be home to a 27,520 square foot Transfer Station, a 3,000 square foot administration and education building, a scalehouse, and storage space for waste tires and tree debris. Operations are taken care of by approximately 22 employees, with eight tractor-trailers, two grapplers, and a front-end loader. Full operations began in December of 1998.

January of 1999 marked the official opening of the Leveda Brown Environmental Park and Transfer Station.

A Household Hazardous Waste Facility, under the operation of the Alachua County Environmental Protection Department, opened at the end of 1999. Both a Recovered Materials Processing Facility (RMPF), and a pilot project organic composting operation were initiated in 2001.




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NOTICE
Construction & demolition debris will no longer be accepted at the Environmental Park and Rural Collection Centers.  More Information
NOTICE
Current data on the energy produced by the new solar array at the Leveda Brown Environmental Park is now available online.
 
The data can be viewed by clicking the following link: Leveda Brown Environ. Park Solar Page
 
Visitors to the site can view the power produced, the CO2 reduced and the revenue earned by the array.
 
The solar array at the Leveda Brown Environmental Park became operational on March 3, 2009 and was the first array to be part of Gainesville Regional Utilities Feed-in Tariff program. With the tariff, energy produced by the solar array will feed directly into the GRU grid. GRU then pays Alachua County 32 cents per kilowatt hour produced by the array.
 
Expected energy output of the array is an average of 150 kw per day. This represents 15% of the total energy usage of the Transfer station facilities or the energy used by 4 average homes.

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