Chastain Landfill seeks higher daily intake and wider service area; public comment period continues

Commission staff presented agenda language describing a permit modification application for the Chastain Landfill and announced that public comments on the application remain open online and through a public hearing at the Nov. 10 regular Mobile County Commission meeting.

The agenda language reads that the permit modification would increase the landfill's "maximum daily volume of waste" from what the transcript records as "17 25 tons per day" to "5,000 tons per day," and would expand the landfill's service area from Mobile County to include counties in Alabama and Mississippi. The transcript phrasing around the original daily volume is inconsistent; the county announcement clarified the public comment process and the hearing date.

Commission staff told the meeting that the comment period about the application "continues online and lasts through the public hearing on November 10, at the Mobile County Commission meeting," and instructed that comments must be submitted according to the posted instructions to be part of the record.

No final vote or permit action occurred at the conference meeting; the item was presented on the agenda for consideration at the Nov. 10 regular meeting.