Port Arthur council hears $20–25 million P3 proposal to modernize landfill; council seeks more financial and legal detail

EISG, a private firm, presented a proposal at a Nov. 12 Port Arthur City Council workshop to modernize the city’s landfill and expand it to accept non‑hazardous industrial waste, promising to fund $20–25 million of capital improvements and to pay the city a royalty on gross revenues starting at 5% and rising to 10 percent over time.

At the start of the presentation, Peter, one of EISG’s presenters, said the company’s preferred model is a public‑private partnership that would leave ownership and authority with the city while requiring "0 capital" from Port Arthur and delivering revenue sharing to the city. Derek McGriff, who led the financial overview, said EISG projects first‑year full‑operation revenues of about $41 million and asserted the landfill currently captures only about 10% of the regional market, estimating roughly $60 million annually in potential market capture that Port Arthur is now losing to other sites.

The presenters described three development phases: initial roadway and permitting work and MSW (municipal solid waste) optimization in months 1–12; construction of industrial cells…