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Elkhart County reviews multimillion‑dollar landfill expansion bids, aims to capture methane for sale
Summary
County commissioners received competing bids for expansion of landfill cells F‑1, F‑2 and PB‑7 and for a pipeline upgrade to the landfill gas control system aimed at increasing gas capture for sale to an RNG plant; staff were directed to review bids and return with recommendations.
Elkhart County commissioners on Jan. 12 received multiple bids to expand landfill cells and to upgrade the county’s landfill gas control system, steps county staff say are intended to increase gas capture and generate revenue from methane sold to a renewable natural gas (RNG) facility.
John Bowers, director of solid waste, read the bids for combined cell expansion items F‑1, F‑2 and PB‑7 and told commissioners the work was bid both individually and as a package to allow budgetary evaluation. He reported bids including Miller Brothers Construction at $10,261,236.48, Ryan Incorporated at $10,090,012.00 and E & E Excavating at $6,691,490.00. Bowers…
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