Like so much of Boston, the South End began as a landfill project, but it soon lost out in desirability to Back Bay.

In the 1960s, the Hong Kong Government began to replan the area once more, building public housing estates and beginning landfill projects.

Ellis Island grew to its current size in a series of landfill projects between 1890 and 1934.

Their landfill gas-to-energy projects create enough energy to power four hundred thousand homes every day.

The landfill project has become an Achilles heel for the government, with many seeing this as a large waste of limited government resources.

Originally almost isolated by marshes, deliberate landfill projects, primarily since the 1970s, have nearly doubled the land area of the city.

Mr. Ohama, a doctor who used to run a hospital here, opposed the landfill project of the 1980's.

Indeed, most of the residents of this impoverished community have repeatedly voted for the landfill project.

The landfill project, said Sgt. Thomas Nolan, could last a year.

Later, landfill projects resulted in the sharp-edged terminus of the peninsula.