County could have as many as 100 borrow pits; some active, some not; all but one unregulated

I was reviewing county records and news articles on Escambia County’s feeble attempts to regulate borrow pits.

In August 2011, Lloyd Kerr, then-director of Escambia County Planning and Zoning, told the commission that the county had six pits that weren’t operating with a license and had at least more 90 pits that were no longer active.

I found an PNJ article from August 2003 that announced a meeting of the Escambia County Planning Board to examine several issues related to the “approximately 63 borrow pits and disposal sites in the county.” The article didn’t differentiate between borrow pits and C&D landfills.

This is issue is much bigger than any of us have been led to believe.