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The Greensboro News-Record reports today on a proposed dump expansion
High Point residents are worried about expansion of a landfill off Kivett Drive.
The City of High Point held a forum Tuesday night to explain the expansion plans and listen to neighbors’ concerns. City officials told citizens that the current landfill is expected to reach capacity by 2008 and more space is needed to keep it operating. They say that 22 acres need to be annexed and the landfill’s permit updated.
The High Point City Council and the N.C. Division of Waste Management have to approve the plans before the site can be expanded. The proposed expansion of the dump is expected to take about a year to complete.
same song, 2006 verse
What do you think?
I have suggested a regional waste-to-energy program to our own city council members and county commission members for years. One of the excuses that I have received for not considering this option for garbage disposal is that there is just not enough trash to make it economically feasible.
The Raleigh N&O reports that Chatham County, NC, which does not own a landfill, charges county residents a solid waste fee that is included in their property tax bill. The county owns and operates trucks that take trash from collection centers to privately owned transfer stations in Siler City and Lee County. The trash is then hauled to a Sampson County landfill, which is more than 80 miles away.
Siler City is about 40 miles from Greensboro. What are we thinking?
Please read this post from Feb. 3, 2005about trash-energy-water-jobs
And this about traveling trash
And this about our own trash problem
And this information
The Raleigh N&O reports that Chatham County, NC, which does not own a landfill, charges county residents a solid waste fee that is included in their property tax bill. The county owns and operates trucks that take trash from collection centers to privately owned transfer stations in Siler City and Lee County. The trash is then hauled to a Sampson County landfill, which is more than 80 miles away.
Siler City is about 40 miles from Greensboro. What are we thinking?
Please read this post from Feb. 3, 2005about trash-energy-water-jobs
And this about traveling trash
And this about our own trash problem
And this information
More on South Elm Plans
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According to a report on The Business Journal web site ". . . . public hearings on the plan would likely be held this summer, with site acquisition and preparation to follow a city approval of the plan. A developer, or multiple developers, could be chosen in mid-2007. . . . .
Financing for the project could come from a variety of available tax credits, as well as revenue bonds and project-increment financing, which was approved by the state in 2004."
This reports indicates that the City of Greensboro will be using its ability (granted by Amendment 1) to sell bonds (which means borrow money) without voter approval.
I still can't believe that the voters of NC knew what they were doing when they approved Amendment 1. What a mess this is going to be.
Other thoughts about South Elm Plan
and from Ed Cone's blog
Read more at: http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2006/02/13/daily20.html?f=et84&hbx=e_du
and at: http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2006/02/south_elm_and_l.html
According to a report on The Business Journal web site ". . . . public hearings on the plan would likely be held this summer, with site acquisition and preparation to follow a city approval of the plan. A developer, or multiple developers, could be chosen in mid-2007. . . . .
Financing for the project could come from a variety of available tax credits, as well as revenue bonds and project-increment financing, which was approved by the state in 2004."
This reports indicates that the City of Greensboro will be using its ability (granted by Amendment 1) to sell bonds (which means borrow money) without voter approval.
I still can't believe that the voters of NC knew what they were doing when they approved Amendment 1. What a mess this is going to be.
Other thoughts about South Elm Plan
and from Ed Cone's blog
Read more at: http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2006/02/13/daily20.html?f=et84&hbx=e_du
and at: http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2006/02/south_elm_and_l.html
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