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DSAC accepts minutes and 2024 community concerns report; sets 2025 priorities and a working document
Summary
The Disposal Site Advisory Committee approved last meeting’s minutes and the 2024 community concerns annual report to DEQ, then set near‑term priorities (PFAS/leachate, methane/odors, hydrology/groundwater) and agreed to compile questions in a shared document for NRAC and the planning commission.
The Disposal Site Advisory Committee voted to accept the previous meeting’s minutes and to approve the 2024 community concerns annual report for submission to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), with a minor edit requested to present complaint totals as numerals.
Rachel Purcell, DSAC chair, moved to accept the prior meeting minutes; a committee member seconded and the motion passed. Later in the meeting DSAC moved to accept and submit the 2024 community concerns annual report to DEQ; members asked staff to correct text‑written complaint totals to numeric form before submission. Committee discussion noted a rise in odor complaints in the annual report and clarified complaint intake pathways: DEQ‑received complaints and those submitted via the landfill operator’s website are incorporated into the county tracker used for the report.
After administrative business, DSAC spent the remainder of the meeting setting priorities for 2025. Committee members voted verbally and identified the top topics: PFAS and leachate management (highest votes), methane and odors (second), and two topics tied for third — the expansion application and hydrology/groundwater. Members agreed to focus short‑term work on PFAS/leachate, methane/odors (including Title V issues) and hydrology/groundwater. The committee decided to assemble a shared Google Doc to collect technical questions and background materials and to use that document to coordinate any input to NRAC or the planning commission.
Ending: The committee adjourned after agreeing to reconvene on April 9; staff will circulate the shared working document and a short list of prioritized questions to guide near‑term work.
