[Oberon]

Interestingly, when my father's church had their parking lot repaved, they bulldozed up the old pavement and pushed much of it over an embankment at the back of the property, where it sat hidden from view on a brushy hillside.

They were subsequently cited by a county inspector for environmental violations involving hazardous waste, i.e. the old pavement. Apparently when it's in a parking lot it's innocuous, but when it's on a junk pile it's hazardous.

I wonder how that pavement knows where it is...

[blam]

"I wonder how that pavement knows where it is..."

Smart streets?

[DallasMike]

They were subsequently cited by a county inspector for environmental violations involving hazardous waste, i.e. the old pavement. Apparently when it's in a parking lot it's innocuous, but when it's on a junk pile it's hazardous.

I was in the environmental business for 15 years (glad I'm out) and your last sentence sums things up quite nicely. One of my longest running projects was proving to the state that asphalt from Dallas city roads that were used as fill on private property did not adversely affect the environment. Stupid, stupid, stupid.