Orchard Hill Sanitary Landfill

Orchard Hill Sanitary Landfill is the large county landfill out on Hennessey Road that people from Watervliet and surrounding townships use to dump household and commercial trash. It's a working landfill - trucks and trailers are a common sight and it handles both residential drop-offs and larger commercial loads. The site is the final place for burying refuse, not a transfer station or recycling center.

Drive up to a small entrance booth and prepare to be weighed on a scale; charges are typically by weight so there’s a stop on the way in and another on the way out. The tipping area is open and exposed - expect big piles of compacted material, heavy equipment like bulldozers and compactors, and marked lanes for different types of loads. Recycling containers, if present, tend to be off to the side past the booth rather than in the main tipping area. Weekends and spring cleanup days get busy, so lines at the scale and waiting to tip can form quickly.