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Landfill environmental research and teaching laboratory, <br /> and has served as a center for research and <br /> This plan recommends and assumes that the ecological education and as a national research <br /> Greene tract will not be used for a landfill. This laboratory for more than 40 years. In addition, <br /> assumption is supported by the Landfill Search this area provides both passive and active <br /> Committee's previous selection of four final sites recreational opportunities. <br /> that do not include the Greene tract. <br /> Duke University's official position is that the <br /> One of the four possible sites however, is a Blackwood Division of Duke Forest should be <br /> portion of the Blackwood Division of Duke Forest preserved as a vital ecological research and <br /> that is located north of Eubanks Road and west of teaching laboratory; and should not be developed <br /> the existing landfill. This site does not lie within as a regional landfill (Site 17). <br /> Chapel Hill's or Carrboro's joint planning <br /> jurisdiction; but, it is centrally located and Based on the proximity of the Blackwood Division <br /> adjacent to these future growth areas. of Duke Forest to the Northwest Area, the <br /> development of this site as a landfill would have <br /> According to Duke University, the Blackwood major implications on the Northwest Area. <br /> Division of Duke Forest is used as a <br /> Page 44 Northwest Small Area Plan <br />