The county’s landfill had never been considered one of the successful installations. Such a subsidy could represent an increase in taxes of 3 mills per year, he said. “You just can’t go to a little hole in the ground.”īartle said if the county had to find space to dump in other landfills, it would have to pay as much as $3.5 million a year to subsidize the disposal. “We would be under contract, and we’d have to do something with that trash,” added Commissioner Rita C. If the landfill ran out of space, he said, the county would have to haul the trash elsewhere and subsidize the difference between the market rate and its contracted price of $10.37 per ton.
Although the county would no longer have space, he said, it would still be under contract to dispose of trash from the eight municipalities at the $10.37-per-ton rate.īartle said landfill fees at other facilities are expected to climb to as much as $50 a ton next year.
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