The Oregon state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) manages a web page devoted to Riverbend Landfill: http://www.oregon.gov/deq/Programs/Pages/Riverbend-Landfill.aspx.
This page is occasionally updated with air, water quality, and dump management reports -- please check it often!
Currently (November 13, 2021) the page includes this statement about the status of Riverbend's expansion application:
"Riverbend Landfill is approximately three miles southwest of McMinnville
in Yamhill County. The 87-acre landfill began accepting waste in 1982
and has expanded since that time. The landfill owner, Waste Management,
has pursued an expansion involving a 29-acre group of disposal cells to
be located west of the existing landfill. Their expansion application
included a Land Use Compatibility Statement dated March 9, 2016. On Aug.
20, 2020, the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners adopted Board Order
20-287 to deny applications for Site Design Review and a Floodplain
Development Permit for the Riverbend Landfill. Based on this decision by
the county, DEQ concluded that the 2016 LUCS is not valid. On Sept. 16,
2020, DEQ therefore denied the April 23, 2015 expansion application."
The DEQ page also notes that:
"[B]eginning July 1, 2021, their [ie, Riverbend's] public disposal and recycling area will be closed for acceptance of waste and recyclables. The landfill will continue to accept petroleum contaminated soil and select loads of solid waste to fill in areas to aid in achieving proper slopes and grades in preparation for final cover or capping. The landfill has curtailed the type and amount of waste accepted but it has not closed."
Following the dump's decision to turn away garbage but not "close," Yamhill County's Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 to award Riverbend for its service to the County with a twelve-year extension of the landfill's County license, at a reduced annual fee.
Every business should be so lucky.
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