On June 27, the Charleston Landfill will close. On June 30, the new transfer station – located behind the landfill – will open. Trucks will come to the transfer station, a 100 by 150-foot building, and dump their loads. An excavator will pick up the trash, and place it on a trailer that will be hauled to the WM Landfill in Hurricane.
Craig Arnold, Waste Management District Manager, is anticipating about 400 tons, or around 20 trailer loads of trash, to come into the transfer station each day. The landfill accepts about 800 tons of trash a day currently. Some customers will directly haul their waste to other drop-off locations.
Some jobs will transfer to the Hurricane Landfill, but there won’t be any job cuts. Travis Bayes, WM Engineer, has been using a drone to measure how much vertical space is left in the 200 foot tall landfill. The surveys done every 2 weeks have eased Arnold’s mind about having enough room. “We’ve done – we’ll call it – on-the-fly engineering,” Arnold said. “If we put away this bench here, we can put more trash here.”