Frederick County to align rubble tipping fee with construction-debris rate as disposal volumes rise

County staff told the Frederick County Board of Supervisors at a work session that the county plans to move its rubble-fill tipping fee to the construction-and-demolition (CDD) rate of $58 per ton starting July 1 to reflect rising disposal costs and shrinking on-site capacity.

The change matters because rubble fill—defined by staff as clean concrete, brick, rock and chipped asphalt—has climbed to about 11% of what the county receives at its disposal sites and the landfill enterprise relies entirely on tipping fees to fund operations and future construction. Without a new outlet for the material, staff said, rubble will consume space otherwise set aside for other CDD material.

Joe Wilder, director of public works, told the board the county operates two distinct landfills: a municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill and a…