Landfill scheduled to close, tire dump making progress

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While bond issues for the NABORS landfill remain unresolved, treatment for the area is making progress. Melinda Caldwell, Director of the Ozark Mountain Solid Waste District, announced in the district’s board meeting last week the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) has scheduled the landfill site for final closure.The contract has been awarded to a company out of St. Louis and they are to begin the process sometime in June. They will use a product called closure turf to cover the landfill. Caldwell says it looks like sand and will potentially reduce leachate production by 95 percent.

The Damco tire dump site is making progress as well. ADEQ has made a second request round for bids to clean the area. Caldwell says there will be two phases of the project.


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The ADEQ estimates cost of the cleanup at Damco to be around $1 million. Arkansas legislators passed House Bill 1705, now Act 1037, in 2015 which authorizes the ADEQ to use landfill closure funds for the closure of waste tire facilities.

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