Once built, Riverbend Recycling would occupy more than 21 acres of land in Centerville off of Highway 180, where a non-operational fruit packing facility sits today.

Residents are concerned there will be a major increase in traffic.

And they say, before anything is built, they want their voices heard.

For Evelyn Malone and her group of sidesteppers, line dancing isn't all they have in common, no this group is also strongly against a transfer station looking to move into Centerville sometime this year.

"We’ve lived in this little town since 1961 and I don't want everybody's garbage from the east side of the valley dumped in my backyard," says Centerville resident, Evelyn Malone.

Malone says she and her group found out about the proposed, Riverbend Recycling project last month.

Since then, she says she's handed out numerous petitions and gathered over a hundred signatures in opposition of it.

Malone and others say their primary concern, is the amount of traffic it will create for Highway 180.

"Anyone that uses Highway 180 should be against this because its like a freeway out here already," says Malone.

But Fresno County Supervisor Bob Waterston disagrees.

He says with a transfer station, comes less traffic.

"The purpose of the transfer station is so the trash haulers, the same one's picking up their trash would bring it to a central place and one larger truck would take it down the hill,” says Waterston.

Dirk Poeschel Land Development, Inc., the company that represents Riverbend Recycling declined to comment on the proposed transfer station today.

But according to a September 2006, project operational statement, once built, the transfer station would be open 6 days a week, sometimes 7 and would handle more than 600-thousand tons of incoming materials every year, adding convenience to nearby residents, says Waterston.

"Everybody wants these things because it’s a mechanism where people can bring recyclables to weigh in. They can bring their own garbage in, they can do it a lot better than restrictive part they have now. It's great,” says Waterston.

But Malone and her group say they'll continue to oppose the transfer station, in hopes of keeping their community, the way it is today.

"This is an agricultural zoning and residential and as far as I’m concerned, it shouldn't be here,” says Malone

Malone says the sale of the fruit packing facility is contingent on Riverbend Recycling getting a permit to build this transfer station in Centerville.

Which means all testing currently being done on the land is crucial.

Testing that supervisor Waterston says must include an environmental impact report.

Something Malone believed wasn't going to happen.

Click on the link to watch Preston Phillips’ report.