The landfill operator's contract includes closure of the active cell at Brooks. The construction of a landfill gas management system is budgeted in 1999. The budget includes funding for the Household Hazardous Waste Program and for Recycling Centers, and transfers to the General Fund for the Neighborhood Environmental Court and Natural Resource Conservation. The transfer of funds to the Landfill Post Closure Trust Fund sets aside funds generated from the landfill tipping fees to maintain the landfill for 30 years following its closure. 9,793,210 Landfill Program Options 1.
Proposal is to rent uniform work shirts for Landfill inspectors.
Contracted disposal of radioactive waste. The landfill contractor is required to operate a radiation detection system at the landfill scales. By ordinance, radioactive waste is not accepted at the landfill and currently loads determined to contain radiation are turned away. The costs will be billed to the haulers bringing the radioactive loads for full cost recovery. The cost to the haulers will be incentive to minimize radioactive loads brought in.