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WHITEFIELD — North Country residents and conservation groups will rally Wednesday, July 14, at White Mountain Regional High School to urge the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services Wetlands Bureau to reject a pending permit for a 189-acre landfill in Dalton adjacent to Forest Lake State Park. A public hearing begins at 3 p.m. at the high school to hear testimony on Casella Waste Systems Inc.’s proposal for a sprawling landfill it estimates will eventually bury 468,000 tons of garbage — 49 percent from out-of-state annually. A rally will be held at 2 p.m. before the full hearing. “We expect a large crowd to show up for the July 14 hearing,” said North Country Alliance for Balanced Change board of directors President Eliot Wessler. “North Country people see that a large Vermont corporation is trying to ram another landfill down their throats, and they don’t like it. Thousands of people, not only from Dalton, but

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