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BURNSVILLE <br />Grooming garbage for golf <br />City considers plan to put course atop methane-generation site <br />BY BOB SHAW <br />Paoneer Press <br />Welcome to Methane Meadows <br />- the golf course that generates <br />power as you play. <br />In abizarre-sounding plan, the <br />city of Burnsville hopes to convert <br />a 100-foot plateau of garbage <br />into an IS-hole golf course. And <br />because landfill engineers have <br />learned how to obtain methane <br />from rotting garbage in under- <br />ground bladders, golfers could be <br />putting and driving atop a vast <br />power-generating plant as early <br />as 2007. <br />"This is a fascinating concept,' <br />said Burnsville city planner Jenni <br />Faulkner. <br />Officials will hold a public <br />hearing at 7:30 p.m. March 4 at <br />Burnsville City Hall to consider <br />Details at right <br />BURNSVILLE <br />~ OANtlTA <br />~ CQ 13 <br />DAKOTA <br />'•~. COUNTY <br />U IIU V:rIU~ ~..~-- --- ~ ~,~cgtBnt ll JO~aIE~ <br />100 feet garbage <br />12-18 inches sand <br />r~: <br />...:.. ~ 60 mil sheet <br />~' ,~" ~ polyethylene <br />24 inches clay <br />5 feet dirt <br />Water table <br />ALEX LE.CR-'. ?'QNEEB PRESS <br />Heavy equipment spreads out the trash atop the landfill in Burnsville. The top of the garbage plateau offers a 360-degree <br />view of the vast Minnesota River basin. "It's pretty dramatic up there," said Paul Miller, from Gill Miller Inc., agolf-course <br />architecture firm in River Falls, Wis. A course would be built over a landfill that would pump out methane. <br />