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Select Board to explore peninsula-wide hazardous-waste collection; will check DEP rules for transfer station use
Summary
After receiving an email from the Deer Isle town manager, the Blue Hill Select Board discussed peninsula-wide household hazardous waste collection and asked staff to confirm whether the town transfer station could be a collection point under DEP rules.
Select Board member S. Miller raised the possibility of Blue Hill participating in a peninsula-wide household hazardous waste collection in response to an email from Jim Fisher, Deer Isle’s town manager.
Miller said participating towns should split fixed costs while residents would pay variable costs, and he asked M. Laursen to check whether Maine DEP would accept the Blue Hill transfer station as a collection site and what special procedures would be required. No motion or vote was taken; the discussion was recorded as direction to investigate the logistics and regulatory constraints.
The Board did not set a timeline for a decision or commit funds; members discussed cost-sharing among peninsula towns and the potential operational implications if the transfer station can be used.
