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Committee briefed on landfill siting limits as state law tightens siting options
Summary
Director Babcock summarized Land Use Commission deadlines, recent state laws that add buffers and agricultural limits, and the city’s naming of a new site in December 2024; he said the city must integrate the new restrictions into its landfill planning.
The committee was briefed on landfill siting history, permit deadlines and new state limits that reduce available land for a future Waimanalo Gulch replacement.
Roger Babcock, director of the Department of Environmental Services, reviewed the 2019 Land Use Commission decision that extended the permit for Waimanalo Gulch Landfill with conditions that included a closure date in 2028 and earlier requirements to identify a replacement site. He told the committee the city later requested and received an extension to the naming deadline and that in December 2024 the city named a site northeast of Wahiawa.
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