The corporate owner of Riverbend Landfill proposes asking the County to rezone both the PWS (brown area on map below, except for Whiteson) and RC (pink) zones to Exclusive Farm Use. The landfill itself would then expand onto the 25 acres to the west of the existing dump, ie, the triangle in R5501-00400 above the boundary line for R5501-00401. Those acres are north of the famous No-Name creek, so WM would not have to move the creek. WM might also ask to rezone 12 acres north of the existing landfill adjacent to the portion of R5501-00101 that is now zoned PWS (brown).
R5501-00401 would become "landfill operations" (another 25 acres), including access to Hwy 18. West of that parcel are yet another 25 acres that would be set aside for "green technology." WM explained that its operations area and the green tech would be "ancillary" to the landfill itself and therefore permitted under state and local land use law.
WM also unveiled its "green" tech: a plant that will take the non-putrescible waste brought to the dump (minus substances like dirt) and compress these to make pellet fuel. The organic smelly stuff would still go into the expanded landfill. WM estimates that about 35% of what comes to Riverbend today (approximately 520,000 tons/year) is suitable for use in this new technology (ie, about 180,000 tons), though the plant itself will be scaled to handle 1,000 tons/day (260,000 - 365,000 tons depending on whether the plant operates 5 or 7 days a week).
To hear that the smelly stuff would still be going into the landfill was very disappointing.
We believe WM will file for the rezoning within the next few days.
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