Solid-waste Plan
Solid-waste plan gains judge’s favor An administrative law judge has recommended that Carroll County Solid Waste Authority run its own regional solid-waste district. Carroll County is one of six north Arkansas counties in which an annual $18 fee service for landowners has been levied to pay back the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment for taking over, as a court-appointed receiver, financially troubled Ozark Mountain Solid Waste Management District projects. Leaders in those counties have opposed the fee. The department spent $12.9 million bailing out the district on a landfill and another $1 million cleaning up a tire dump of about 1 million tires. Pulaski County Circuit choose Tim Fox ordered the $18 feeThe state has 18 regional solid-waste districts, funded largely by the state. In recent years, as struggles at Ozark Mountain and other solid-waste districts have prompted the department to disburse funds and take legal action, the department has ended s...