Lawmakers discuss upgrading Brisben refuse station
NORWICH – Chenango County’s Brisben Refuse Transfer Station could be upgraded with a new waste containment building similar to the one in use at the North Norwich Transfer Station.
At present, garbage haulers and residents make deliveries to a 1970s era steel compactor that uses too much electricity and is inconvenient for customers because it often breaks down, county lawmakers say.
By switching to a containment building, municipal solid waste can be more easily rolled off into containers and hauled off to the county’s landfill in Pharsalia.
“It would make everything more efficient to have the tractor-trailer making an arc from Brisben to Pharsalia, from Pharsalia to North Norwich and then back to Pharsalia,” said town of Norwich Supervisor James J. McNeil, speaking on behalf of the Chenango County Public Works Committee.
The idea was generated at the committee’s meeting in September. In order to eventually purchase the building, the Finance Committee was directed to create a capital reserve account funded by $10,000 in excess tipping fees.
“We’ve wanted to do this for about five years,” DPW Director Randy Gibbon told members of Finance this month. “It makes sense; it’s fine, we need this upgrade to be more efficient.”
Using excess tipping fees for the project is “the logical and economical way of doing it,” said McNeil.
However, members of Finance cautioned that tipping fees are specifically authorized for use to support cell closure and cell development at the Pharsalia Landfill and also to pay off the last remaining bond borrowed to build the facility. Chenango County Treasure William E. Evans suggested waiting to set up the reserve until after the bond is retired, as scheduled in 2012.
Public Work’s referral was tabled by supervisors on the Finance Committee until later in the year when more department estimates for next year’s budget are locked in.
“If we have the money, then we can create the capital project. It can be established any time, but we need to fund it first,” said Finance Vice Chairman Dennis Brown, D-Pharsalia.
Gibbon has estimated that the department would take in about $1.66 million in tipping fees next year.
In highway news, Gibbon said the total appropriation for servicing the county’s highways in 2011 is estimated in excess of $9.5 million. But, after state and federal reimbursements are received, the local taxpayers’ share would be about $4 million.
At present, garbage haulers and residents make deliveries to a 1970s era steel compactor that uses too much electricity and is inconvenient for customers because it often breaks down, county lawmakers say.
By switching to a containment building, municipal solid waste can be more easily rolled off into containers and hauled off to the county’s landfill in Pharsalia.
“It would make everything more efficient to have the tractor-trailer making an arc from Brisben to Pharsalia, from Pharsalia to North Norwich and then back to Pharsalia,” said town of Norwich Supervisor James J. McNeil, speaking on behalf of the Chenango County Public Works Committee.
The idea was generated at the committee’s meeting in September. In order to eventually purchase the building, the Finance Committee was directed to create a capital reserve account funded by $10,000 in excess tipping fees.
“We’ve wanted to do this for about five years,” DPW Director Randy Gibbon told members of Finance this month. “It makes sense; it’s fine, we need this upgrade to be more efficient.”
Using excess tipping fees for the project is “the logical and economical way of doing it,” said McNeil.
However, members of Finance cautioned that tipping fees are specifically authorized for use to support cell closure and cell development at the Pharsalia Landfill and also to pay off the last remaining bond borrowed to build the facility. Chenango County Treasure William E. Evans suggested waiting to set up the reserve until after the bond is retired, as scheduled in 2012.
Public Work’s referral was tabled by supervisors on the Finance Committee until later in the year when more department estimates for next year’s budget are locked in.
“If we have the money, then we can create the capital project. It can be established any time, but we need to fund it first,” said Finance Vice Chairman Dennis Brown, D-Pharsalia.
Gibbon has estimated that the department would take in about $1.66 million in tipping fees next year.
In highway news, Gibbon said the total appropriation for servicing the county’s highways in 2011 is estimated in excess of $9.5 million. But, after state and federal reimbursements are received, the local taxpayers’ share would be about $4 million.
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