By: Lydia Crawley
The Parsons Advocate
Process is being made towards a new cell at the Tucker County Landfill Tucker County Authority Presiding Chair Mark Holstine reported to the Tucker County Solid Waste Authority Board July 21st. Holstine said he had met with the Engineer that morning on the project and now has a better idea of the scope of the project.
According to Holstine the project will encompass a six acre area at the facility and is expected to last approximately seven years.
The cell is designed to utilize air space above cell 7A and 7B and new air space created by 7C, which will provide nearly one million cubic yards of air space, according to Holstine. On average, the facility uses 130,000 to 140,000 cubic yards of air space a year.
‟So just do the math, at seven years straight calculation, over seven years, you’ll have settlement, those calculations are generally very conservative, so you could be looking at a nine to ten year cell right there in reality, which is wonderful,” Holstine said.
In preparation for construction of the new cell, Landfill Supervisor Jody Alderman said that the Landfill is accepting sealed bids on crushing equipment so that the facility can crush its own stone for the project in a bid to save money on the new cell’s construction.
‟Its not to purchase, its strictly to rent,” Alderman said. ‟We are asking for monthly rates and weekly.”
Once the Landfill can determine what the cost of stone work will be, the facility will have a better idea what the total cost of the project will be, Alderman said.
‟That will help us with our final planning for what we can and possibly can’t do,” Alderman said.
The facility plans to do most of the work in house in order to save money on construction and has already purchased some equipment to assist in the future construction of the cell.
There is no word on when construction of the cell will begin.
