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Newport councilors urge Benton County to allow modest Coffin Butte landfill expansion, offer to testify
Summary
Speakers at the Newport City Council meeting described Coffin Butte as a regional disposal hub with limited remaining capacity; the council agreed to authorize up to two members to give verbal testimony before the Benton County Board of Commissioners in support of a conditional-use appeal to expand the landfill's last parcel.
Newport city leaders and waste-industry speakers pressed Benton County officials to permit a modest expansion at the Coffin Butte landfill, saying it would buy time for regional planning and help hold down disposal costs.
At the Oct. 20 Newport City Council meeting, members of a coalition called Benton Clean & Strong and local waste haulers told councilors that Coffin Butte is one of only two municipal landfills west of the Cascades and that the site has limited remaining capacity. "This landfill has about 10 ish years left," said Dani Lisonbee, a coalition speaker who described the expansion as a way to "buy about six more years" for the facility.
The coalition urged Newport to make its position known to Benton County, where a conditional-use permit application (LU-24-27) to expand a final 50-acre parcel has been denied by the local planning commission and is now under appeal to the Benton…
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