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City faces near-term landfill capacity decision; consultants request $8 million to build new cells while state permitting continues
Summary
City staff and consultants told City Council on Feb. 11 that Pine Grove Landfill will exhaust currently constructed capacity in 2025 and recommended constructing the first cells of Phase 5 at an estimated $8 million while state permitting continues.
City public-works staff and consultants told City Council on Feb. 11 that Pine Grove Landfill will exhaust its currently constructed municipal solid-waste airspace early in 2025 unless the city completes a planned new cell area (Cell 5) or receives state approval of a major modification that would permit vertical slope changes to add airspace.
What staff reported: Monte Jones of Atlantic Coast Consulting and Integrated Waste Director Drell Short presented the technical status and a recommended near-term action. Jones said recent submissions to Georgia EPD seeking approval for a vertical expansion and for a new C&D and class-4 compost area have been under review for an extended period; the consultant described multi-year back-and-forth with the…
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