By: Lydia Crawley
The Parsons Advocate
Tucker County Solid Waste Authority Presiding Chair Mark Holstine updated the members of the Board on the status of various engineering projects at the landfill. According to Holstine, both he and Jody Alderman had been in contact with an engineering firm regarding several urgent projects. Top of the list was plans for a Storm Water Pond at the facility. “We had talked to our consulting engineer about (the fact that) we need to up the schedule on the Storm Water Pond, design” Holstine said.
According to Holstine, both he and Jody Alderman has been in contact with an engineering design firm over plans for the Storm Water Ponds “We were in conversations with him prior to the meeting today to get him started on it,” Holstine said.
The main goal of the call was to begin to determine how much space the pond will eventually require, according to Holstine. Holstine said they were not so much worried about the full design currently, but more the general scope of the project in terms of overall size. “The storm water pond, not complete design, but we need to know how much room we need,” Holstine said.
Concerns over size, according to Holsine, stems from the need for future land acquisition for the project. According to Holsine, once the space that will be needed is known, he and the board can approach Western Pocahontas about purchasing additional land. “Because we have to go back to Western Pocahontas with what we need,” Holstine said. “I think they are willing to entertain us purchasing some of that off of them, but we can’t tell them yet what that is, how much.”
The exact size of the project is currently not known, according to Holsine, but will depend on design and intended use. “It depends on what we do and how we do it,” Holstine said. “That pond could be extensive in size.”
Holsine said he hoped to only need to construct one pond, but depending on what the engineers determine, two ponds may be needed. “We may not be able to build just one pond,” Holstine said. “We may have to build two, don’t want to do that.”
According to Holsine, he intends to only build one pond, if at all possible. “If we could just get it into one pond, that’s what I’d like to do,” Holstine said.
The next meeting of the Tucker County Solid Waste Authority will be held on February 26 at 3 p.m. at the T.C.S.W.A Office located at 284 Landfill Road in Davis.