The town hit a bump in its plan to move forward with capping its old dump at the March 24 Board of Selectman’s meeting.

But rather than “kicking the can down the road” when it comes to cleaning up its act once and for all, landfill capping is sure to mar the complexion of Route 6’s main commercial strip with a sizable bump — rising 70 feet in the air, with a footprint of six acres.

The former landfill closed in 1983. A small portion sits on town property, while the remaining land of the 22-acre plot is privately owned by Paul and Michelle LaFlamme. For decades, the town has “lived a charmed life” skirting the consequences of a ding from the state’s Department of Environmental Protection that could order Swansea to take care of its decades-old mess at any time.

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