SAUGUS – Department of Public Works Superintendent Jos-eph Attubato gazes at the capped landfill behind his office with something akin to longing.The large sweeping hillside is off-limits to any kind of storage, stockpiling or any use at all since it was capped three years ago, which frustrates Attubato.With the landfill off-limits, the DPW yard is now home to various growing piles of debris and it is quickly running out of room.In 2004, the town was required to close and cap the Main Street landfill per order of the Department of Environmental Protection. Prior to that the mesa-style landfill was used as a composting area and was dotted with random piles of debris, including a boat.The landfill’s capping put an end to that practice.”There is a membrane a few feet down and it can’t be punctured or we’ll have even more problems,” Attubato said. “You can’t do anything up here.”Today a long low compost mound sits on a much smaller plateau just to the right of the capped landfill. It is flanked however by two piles of dirt that contains roots as well as chunks of concrete and broken asphalt mixed in. Attubato said both piles must be removed but the debris first has to be sifted out.”That’s all from water and sewer projects,” Attubato said. “The DEP won’t let us stockpile it anymore. They’ve told us we have to get rid of it now.”It used to be the town could harbor the piles at least on a short-term basis but Attubato said the state is cracking down on that practice.Just behind the building, near the far wall and the left-hand base of the landfill, is another in the variety of heaps. One is a stack of computer monitors and televisions; another is twisted lumps of metal that at one time were washing machines, refrigerators or stoves. A third contains tires.”We pick this stuff up all over town,” Attubato said. “Every day calls come in for something to be picked up because someone has dumped something.”The problem Attubato said is it is getting more expensive for the town to get rid of the debris. While he talks, workers load the misshapen appliances into a truck. The metal goes, he says, because people can make money recycling it, but the tires, monitors and piles of asphalt must be dealt with more delicately.”I have a line item in the budget for removal,” he said. “It can cost around $15,000 to get rid of this stuff.”Town Manager Andrew Bisignani said there is some relief coming. Under the new rubbish contract he said there will be a dumpster put on the compost site for recycling.He also said he and recycling coordinator Lorna Cerbone are also working on getting a dumpster that would allow residents to drop off computer monitors and TVs free of charge as well.Both he and Bisignani said the dumpster should go a long way toward quashing illegal dumping and give Attubato an area at least in which to stack the junk that no one else wants either.