County To Bid Fiber Removal

The Jasper County Commissioners Tuesday voted unanimously to follow the recommendation of the citizens’ solid waste committee and seek bids for the removal of the fiber at the Jasper County Landfill.

The county has been under a consent order with the Environmental Protection Division (EPD) of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources since 2006. Last year, the EPD said move the fiber or be fined. The county began moving the fiber, but stopped way short of completing the task.

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Fiber was dumped at the landfill in unpermitted cells prior to 2006. That’s when the EPD said it must be moved. When the county moved it, Public Works Department (PWD) employees did the work, leaving a skeleton crew to work on the roads. The committee, which met for the first time last Thursday, said moving the fiber should be the first order of business for the commissioners.

The unanimous recommendation was presented at a called County Commission meeting Tuesday, and commissioners agreed to move forward on the recommendation.

Mike McClanahan, who chairs the solid waste committee, and Commission Chair Gene Trammell are to meet with the county’s landfill engineer to develop a request for proposals (RFP) or bid documents to take care of the issue.

The solid waste committee will meet again today, May 14, at 5:15 p.m., in the jury room upstairs in the courthouse to further consider issues facing the landfill.

The committee is tasked with determining what direction to go with the county’s construction and demolition (C&D) landfill.