On a bike ride Thursday afternoon I looked west toward the Coffin Butte Landfill from Oak Grove Drive in North Albany. Whatever happened to the controversial proposal to expand the landfill and cover up Coffin Butte Road, which the county’s planning commission denied on Dec. 7?
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Tags: Benton commissioners, Benton County Planning, Coffin Butte landfill, Republic Services, waste disposal
Tags: Benton commissioners, Benton County Planning, Coffin Butte landfill, Republic Services, waste disposal
New Coffin Butte plan keeps road open
Republic Services has unveiled its new and radically different plan for expanding the Coffin Butte landfill in northern Benton County. One big change is that the proposal keeps open and improves Coffin Butte Road rather than burying it under a mountain of trash.
Tags: Coffin Butte, conditional use permit, landfill, Republic Services, waste disposal