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Landfill
Jefferson Davis Parish Landfill
Jefferson Davis Parish Landfill, 16547 Landfill Road, Welsh, 70591, Louisiana
Jefferson Davis Parish Landfill in Welsh is where household trash and commercial loads end up for burial. Short drives bring pickups, trailers and roll-offs; expect the place to look like a working dump rather than a tidy transfer station.
Drive up Landfill Road to a gate and an entry point where traffic funnels through; many landfills of this type have a scale and charge tipping fees by weight or by a flat minimum on smaller loads. Pull up where directed, unload onto the working face or piles, then usually drive back across the scale if one is used. The site is mostly compacted dirt, heavy equipment moving around, and bare cells or mounds of cover soil-it’s noisy and dusty at times, and lines build up on weekends and during spring cleanup.
Facility Information
Before You Go
- Cover and tie down loose loads to keep debris from blowing off during the drive and to make unloading quicker.
- Sort bulky items and recyclables at the truck so the drop-off goes faster; having everything grouped saves time when crews point to different piles.
- Aim for a weekday morning if possible-midweek tends to be quieter than weekends when lines get long.
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