A family has moved to stop the extension of North Tipperary's county landfill outside Nenagh.
Waste from Clare is expected to be dumped at the Tipperary waste facility over the coming weeks when a new £1.3 million extension opens.
Kathleen and Jimmy Hogan, Brownstown, Ballymackey, Nenagh, Co Tipperary, live beside the Ballaghveny landfill, which is North Tipperary's main dump. They applied for a judicial review of an EPA decision to grant a licence to North Tipperary County Council for the extension of its existing landfill.
Papers have been lodged with the High Court and the application for the judicial review is to be heard at the end of this month.
The Hogans are opposed to the landfill extension and the dumping of Clare waste there. "We have a dump on our doorstep and are looking out our kitchen window at it every day," said Mrs Hogan.
"This winter we had rats in the house, we are only living three to four hundred yards from the dump here. We are objecting to Clare's waste coming in here. There are enough problems."
The £1.3 million extension to the Ballaghveny facility, five miles outside Nenagh, is near completion. The extension paves the way for the disposal of 10,000 tonnes of Clare waste in Tipperary over the next year.
Following the closure of Clare's main landfill, the Doora dump, by a High Court order, Clare County Council had to look to neighbouring counties to provide dumping facilities.
Currently the Ballaghveny waste facility is capable of taking 27,000 tonnes of waste. When the extension is complete the dump will be capable of taking an additional 10,000 tonnes.