‘Trash Mountain’ to be relocated
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By: Rusty Summers
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (KQTV) — A bill to relocate waste in the St. Joseph Landfill’s “Trash Mountain” had its first reading at St. Joseph’s City Council meeting Monday night.
If the bill passes, MCON would receive the contract for the city landfill waste relocation project, beating out Nail Excavating due to incorrect pricing, which voids the company’s bid.
The city said, as a result of Cell 7-B filling up faster than predicted and with the delays associated with Cell 8, waste was temporarily relocated to an area known as “Trash Mountain”.
The city received a vertical expansion from the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) while Cell 8 was being finished.
“We knew the whole time that some of that trash needed to be relocated to the new cell,” Director of Public Works Abe Forney said. “So, that’s what this contract will do. It will move the trash that was in that area that was not approved by the vertical expansion to be relocated over to cell number eight.”
If the council passes the project, the city will not be fined for the extra trash added to Trash Mountain. The project is not to exceed $1,902,150.15.
The passage of the bill will bring the projected landfill fund balance down from about $21 million to about $19 million.