Creating landfill for county’s trash gets serious look
A quartercentury after Ulster County officials abandoned the idea of creating a countywide landfill, there appears to be a new emphasis on finding a local site for the disposal of solid waste . At a Thursday evening meeting of the county’s Solid Waste Planning Commission, members were largely in agreement that the option should be studied next year, followed by engineering reports being conducted over the following four years. County Legislator Manna Jo Greene, though, questioned the timetable. “My biggest concern on this document is that we’re going to be studying things for too many years,” said Greene, R-Rosendale. “I believe ... that we have a year to make a good decision through the feasibility study and figure out [if] we’re going to have more than one [disposal] facility.” The Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency currently hauls trash collected in the county to the Seneca Meadows landfill, between Rochester and Syracuse, but that site is expected to c...