The Upper Platte River Solid Waste Disposal District (Landfill Board) met for a special meeting on Wednesday to discuss and vote on a new site location for the Transfer station. The original site just North of the recycle building became untenable after a geotech analysis revealed that there were several old trash pits in the area. This is contrary to the old maps PMPC had used to originally survey the location.
The new site located due South of the construction pit, will have to incur some additional costs, the largest of which being the need to run three-phase electric a farther distance. PMPC is also re-designing of the plans to rotate the building to fit the slope of the land and weather direction. PMPC engineer Craig Kopasz feels the changes shouldn’t dramatically increase the costs beyond the preliminary budget of approximately $1.3 million it will take to build the transfer station.
The new site may have some advantages over the older one since it will have more room for the transfer station to expand in the future according to Chairman Randy Raymer. “We’ve always been a small town, and maybe we’ll always be a small town, but maybe we won’t,” said Raymer.
The Landfill Board meets again at 7 p.m. April 1, at the Saratoga Town Hall.
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