HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981 07-22 County workhouse listed as possible landfill site THE REVIEW Maplewood, Minnesota •' Single Copy 30 WED.,JULY 22, 1981
County workhouse listed
as possible landfill site
By JONATHON CLYDE GLASS The workhouse could continue its Ramsey County public hearing will be Paul Hoff,public information officer with
Staff Writer farming operations in the 80 acre buffer Aug.3,9 a.m.at Lake Owasso School,934 the MPCA.
area,according to Wood.He emphasized, Woodhill Drive(located at the corner of The Metropolitan Council will review
The Ramsey County Workhouse,297 S. only a portion of the present workhouse County Road C and Victoria),Roseville.A the data and choose the best sites in
Century Ave.,is one of two sites in the property would be used for the sanitary second hearing will begin at 7 p.m.on the February,according to Smith.
county under consideration as "in- landfill. same day and at the same location.If the Meanwhile,each county must prepare
trinsically suitable"for a landfill. With current metropolitan landfill volume of testimony exceeds the its abatement plan to be presented to the
The workhouse site meets the minimal capacity expected to be exhausted by available time,the hearings will continue Metropolitan Council by April 1982.The
space enters of having 80 unoccupied 1987, the regional and county govern- the next day. council will approve a regional abatement
acres for the landfill and 80 acres of buffer ments are systematically planning ways The selection of more landfill sites is plan and landfill development schedule in
area,said Doug Wood,manager of the to be ready. The workhouse and the mandated by the 1980 Minnesota Waste January 1983, Smith continued. The
county's division of environmental health. former University of Minnesota airport in Management Act, according to Paul counties are then expected to finalize
The division selected the possible landfill Shoreview(also in Ramsey County)are Smith,senior environmental planner with their methods for implementing the
sites. The county did three 50-feet soil only two of the 17 metropolitan sites under the Metropolitan Council. The act regional plans by June 1983,he concluded.
borings on the site and found the mixture consideration for expanded landfill requires each metropolitan county to both Until each county's plans can be studied
of clay,silt and sand to be suitable for a capacity.The Metropolitan Council,with suggest possible landfill sites and develop and evaluated,it is not possible to predict
landfill,Wood continued. the.advice of the Minnesota Pollution "abatement plans"to reduce the volume the number or size of landfills which will
The landfills, wherever the final Control Agency (MPCA), is primarily of wastes through recycling,conservation be needed.
locations,will be the burial site for both responsible for the final selection in an and resource recovery, or using the More information on the preliminary
commercial and residential garbage from intricate process which will continue until wastes for fuel. site selection is available from the MPCA,
throughout the metropolitan area.Along 1983. The MPCA's initial review of sites 1935 W. County Road B-2,Roseville,or
with the buffer area,they will be designed A series of public hearings have been should be completed by October,at which 296-7373.The data is also available at the
with measures for groundwater scheduled by the MPCA to gather citizen time the agency's nine-member citizen Maplewood Library, 1460 E. Skillman
protection,and trees or mounds to reduce comments on the environmental board will recommend suitable sites,said Ave.
the noise and visual disturbance. suitability of the various sites. The _.---