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Lake County staff outlines landfill expansion, leachate controls and $4 million EPA grant bid
Summary
County staff described short- and long-term plans for the Lake County landfill, including staffing needs, lining a new 8.6-acre cell that would extend capacity about a decade, requirements for leachate collection, and a pending roughly $4,000,000 EPA grant the county applied for to expand recycling and composting programs.
Lake County staff presented short- and long-term plans for the county landfill during the Board of County Commissioners work session, describing staffing gaps, engineering work on a lined cell and a pending federal grant application to expand recycling and composting.
Michael Irwin, a Lake County staff member who led the presentation, said the county is recruiting at least one worker and needs additional commercial driver's license (CDL) operators after a recent departure. "He's one of our CDL drivers, so that kinda hurts us a little bit," Irwin said, describing short-term staffing needs.
Irwin said the county is completing engineering work and expects approval of…
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