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Tooele County solid‑waste master plan: landfill life limited, transfer station improvements and fee changes recommended
Summary
Wayne Anderton, Tooele County’s solid‑waste director, told the County Council on Aug. 19 that the county’s landfill has roughly four years of capacity in its current active cell and another 23 years in a second phase, and recommended facility upgrades and switching from cubic‑yard visual fees to scale‑based tonnage to recover lost revenue.
Tooele County Solid Waste Director Wayne Anderton and consultants from Forsgren & Associates presented the county’s Solid Waste Master Plan to the County Council on Aug. 19, outlining the landfill’s remaining capacity, recommended facility upgrades and a proposed change to how disposal fees are measured.
Anderton said the existing landfill report (Advanced Environmental Engineers, 2021) divides remaining capacity into two phases: phase 1 has “a little under four years left” with roughly 800,000 cubic yards of disposal volume, followed by a phase 2 with about 23 years and roughly 4.7 million cubic yards of volume. He said the current transfer station building is about 20,000 square feet with 18,500 square feet usable tipping floor and that, depending on growth, the transfer station could be outgrown within about five years unless improvements are made.
The presentation…
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