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Sandpoint Landfill manager outlines new tipping floor, automated scales and continued use of military trucks
Summary
Sandpoint Landfill manager Hazer Archer asked the commission to consider building a new tipping floor with a pit-style layout, automated scales and a separation of commercial and residential flows; he also described operating and maintenance benefits from military surplus trucks and proposed buying two more such vehicles.
Hazer Archer, manager of the Sandpoint Landfill, told the Eddy County Commission that the landfill needs layout and operational changes to improve safety, reduce wait times and extend life of existing equipment.
Archer described several proposals: improved signage and traffic flow at the tipping station, netting to control litter, daily cover and dust-control protocols, and a redesign of the public tipping area into a pit-style tipping floor with automated scales and a separate commercial/residential flow. "If we were able to build this road right here coming in, we would set another set of scales ... and it would be automated," Archer said, explaining that an automated pit and separate tipping station would reduce…
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