COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) - Two Columbus landfill cells will have their height limit raised pending approval from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
City councilmen gave engineering consultant Kevin Stafford approved Tuesday to ask the agency to raise the height to 315 feet for one cell and to 285 feet for another. The previous permitted elevation was 268 feet.
The Commercial Dispatch reports (https://bit.ly/1dukS6W ) that Stafford says the move would add five years to overall cell life.
He says the city will need to move about 3.4 acres of rubbish that spilled outside the permitted boundary back into one of the two cells to meet state guidelines.
One cell is 7 acres while another is about 16 acres.
Stafford says he hopes for approval of the permit in three months.
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Information from: The Commercial Dispatch, https://www.cdispatch.com
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