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Solid Waste proposes second scale and new scale house to cut traffic and improve weights accounting
Summary
Solid Waste manager presented a plan to add a second scale and a modular scale house at the transfer station to reduce vehicle queueing on Madaket Road, provide accurate gross/net weights and support improved traffic flow and accounting.
The transfer station’s single-scale configuration contributes to weekend backups onto Madaket Road, and solid-waste staff on Oct. 23 asked the committee to support engineering, permitting and construction funding for a second scale and a new modular scale house.
Chris Lowe, solid waste manager, said the second scale would provide redundancy, reduce queuing and let the town capture accurate gross and tare weights for incoming and outgoing loads. "It will...make us more efficient," Lowe said. He…
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