City staff describe ongoing work to control methane from old town dump
Public works and development staff said methane is escaping from a legacy town dump (not the county sanitary landfill); the city is working with an outside landfill engineering firm and Public Works Director Sarah Granger to assess passive versus active gas collection and potential remediation costs.
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Nate Torres and committee members discussed an old town dump that pre-dates modern landfill regulations and is producing off-site methane gas. Torres said the site "wasn't built for that" and the passive gas-collection system is failing; staff have been working with an outside landfill engineering firm and Public Works Director Sarah Granger for several months.
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