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The Board of Supervisors is soliciting proposals for maintaining dumpsters at Scrabble and Huntly and hauling trash from the “green box” sites to the new landfill on the 99-acre Stover tract near Amissville, which is expected to be completed in mid-August.
In addition, the supervisors are asking for a separate proposal on providing “landfilling operations support,” essentially seeking a heavy equipment operator with a front end loader to work under the direction of the landfill operator.
The request for proposals (RFP) doesn’t obligate the . board to any course of action; the supervisors could still decide to abandon the dumpster sites and require that all refuse be taken to the landfill, in addition, the request for proposals leaves open the questions of whether access will be controlled and whether compactors will be installed at one or both of the garbage collection points.
Suggesting that compactors be added, Col. Ellis Bingham, the supervisor whose district is home to the new county landfill, maintained “if it’s not controlled at the dumpster sites, we’re not going to be able to control what goes in the landfill.”
“Absolutely,” agreed Supervisor Mike Massie.
But if the contractor must supply compactors, respondents will be limited to two firms (BFI and Waste Management), County Administrator John McCarthy explained. And if the equipment is county-owned, then compactor operation can be put out later for proposals and bids, he added.
Before a decision is made on compactors, the board should determine whether it wants to maintain two ancillary sites “forever” or if the dumpsters are going to be provided only as a temporary measure, Mr. McCarthy continued.
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See DUMPSTERS, p. 14
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