Ten Sleep Solid Waste District accepting bids for transfer station
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TEN SLEEP – The Ten Sleep Solid Waste District has let bids to transition the landfill into a transfer station, well ahead of the June 2017 deadline. The changes will include a drive-over scale, business office and check-in station and the transfer building for storage of household waste before being trucked to an undetermined facility within Wyoming.
According to Ten Sleep Solid Waste District Manager Holly Redland, district engineer Mike Donnell will conduct the bid inspection this week, and pending awarding the final bid, the facility should be functional by this November. Redland said the District has obtained a transfer station permit from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ).
Bids are being accepted until 6 p.m., March 9, the date of the next district board meeting.
The new facility will be located at the entrance to the landfill property, where the landfill garage currently sits. The rest of the property will be retained by the district, and the pits will be reclaimed and filled. All remaining refuse, including construction garbage and metal, will be transferred off the property.
Due to prioritization by the DEQ, municipal unlined landfills across Wyoming are facing either mandatory transfer of refuse, or closure. For Ten Sleep the landfill has until June 2017 to install a scale, and prepare for all trash from that point forward to be trailered and transferred, effectively closing the decades-old pit. The landfill will be allowed to take construction materials until December 2017.
A 2009 Integrated Solid Waste Planning report by the DEQ indicates that groundwater contamination caused by unlined landfills have caused operating costs to rise well beyond the budgets of most small local governments in Wyoming. As a result, the DEQ decided to phase out unlined landfills, replacing the system with transfer stations to relocate municipal and private garbage to larger, fee-based landfills.
The Ten Sleep Solid Waste District maintains operating hours of 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Thursday and Tuesday; 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday. The Solid Waste District holds their monthly board meeting on the second Wednesday of the month at the Ten Sleep Senior Center. They will review all bids at the next meeting, March 9.
All meetings are open to the public.
