Construction In Progress on Multi-County Landfill in Wisconsin

SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): Construction on a landfill that will serve Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago counties is now underway. The work planned for this year includes excavation and adding security fencing around the entire site. Dean Haen, director of Brown County Port and Resource Recovery, says the site for a landfill is perfect. “This is really a geologically ideal site for a landfill, we’ve got 100 plus feet of nature’s best clay so we have to build a landfill to meet state specs, you could build that in any situation, here you have the additional 60 to 80 feet of natural clay that will underline the landfill and preserve and protect the environment,” Haen said.

In 2002, Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago counties entered into a solid waste partnership to coordinate waste disposal and recycling efforts to be more efficient. As part of that partnership, each county-run landfill is operated in sequence. The first county landfill to be used was in Winnebago County, with Brown and Outagamie counties operating solid waste transfer stations in their counties where solid waste was collected, compacted and then hauled to the landfill in Winnebago County. When that landfill reached capacity, the solid waste disposal shifted to Outagamie County. The Outagamie County landfill is expected to reach capacity near the end of 2022, with waste disposal then shifting to Brown County.

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