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Augusta commission approves Waste Management request to reopen Goshen transfer station with conditions
Summary
The Augusta commission approved a special exception allowing Waste Management to resume municipal solid waste sorting and transfer operations at 3946 Goshen Industrial Boulevard, subject to five staff conditions including an approved letter of consistency to engineering and a prohibition on outdoor trash storage.
The Augusta Commission voted to approve a special exception allowing an indoor municipal solid-waste sorting and transfer station at 3946 Goshen Industrial Boulevard, staff said.
Rachel Martin, planner with Planning and Development, told commissioners the roughly 10.33-acre site includes a warehouse, parking and a detention pond and was previously operated as a transfer station under a 1995 special exception. Martin said the property meets setback, height and parking requirements in the Heavy Industrial district and is not located in a FEMA special flood hazard area. She said the request would operate under state permit-by-rule authority from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division and that engineering requested a letter of consistency and a copy of a renewed industrial permit for the engineering…
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