June 24, 2008
Trash transfer site for citizens gets approval
The Botetourt County Board of Supervisors passed a motion today to give the go ahead for bids for the new Citizen Convenience Center or trash transfer site at the current landfill which is almost full. Trash will be brought to the site and transported to Salem.
On the left of the above picture, the Recycling Center will come off the road to the right at the top of the hill. It will be spacious and comfortable said Public Works Director Ron Smith. The Scales House for weighing will be relocated to the hill and be central to both the Convenience Center (at the far right in the picture) and the Recycling Center with road entries on both sides of the Scales House (in the middle of the picture). In real time, the road will meander off to the left to the site where citizens will dump their trash at the Convenience Center. Commercial haulers will go behind the structure so the two groups have different places to dispose of trash.
The firm of Thompson and Litton has designed the above pictured rendering of how the new transfer site will be arranged. The project is scheduled for completion in 2009.
To access the new site the entry way to the current Landfill will be used but where the Scales House stands now, the road -- which will be paved -- will go to the left up the hill where metals and appliances are now dumped. At the top of the hill in the site the pictured trash sites and Scales House will be built.
There is a significant retaining wall that will cost about $280,000. The total cost for building
of the transfer station area is an estimated $1.1 million dollars.
The board approved advertising the project for bid and Assistant Administrator David Moorman said he expects to bring the bids back to the board in August.
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