A group of residents who live south of Brownstown appeared at the monthly Fayette County Board meeting last week to voice their concerns about a Waste Transfer Station that is to be built and operated by Chris Sutter of Countryside Disposal at County Road 1575 East, right off Route 185. Residents in attendance took time to speak to the board on concerns they have with the station including possible noise and smell issues, its impact on the environment and property values as well as several stating that they feared it would turn into a landfill. Due to there not being any agenda item for this month’s meeting related to the waste transfer station, the county board was unable to answer any questions posed by the residents during the meeting.
Sutter himself was unable to attend the board meeting, but spoke to WPMB-WKRV afterwards and explained the scope of the waste transfer station project. Sutter says the acreage for the transfer station was purchased off the landowners for the purpose of building the site which will be a state of the art, fully enclosed building designed by professional engineers to ensure that no surrounding property values will be adversely effected.
When operational, trash trucks will back into the facility and drop their load which will then be pushed against a push wall, scooped up with a wheel loader and loaded into a semi-trailer. Once a semi-trailer is full, it will be tarped and closed before exiting the building and premises, will be weighed on the onsite scale to ensure legal weight and then be inspected before leaving to take the waste to a landfill in southern Illinois. Sutter says that when trash is unloaded into the building, that it is unloaded onto a 12-inch thick floor which meets Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements so that there is no runoff of water or liquid that is able to leave the building. Where the trash is unloaded will also feature 8-foot tall and 32 inch thick walls to prevent any waste being able to escape. Sutter says there will be no trash outside of the building or on the grounds of the transfer station site, that there will not be any trash left at the station overnight and that s smell proof sealant will be applied inside of the transfer station every. Sutter stressed that the site will not be a landfill facility, only a transfer station.
Before the waste transfer station can be opened, Sutter says that there are 9 stipulations and requirements set forth by the EPA that the Fayette County Board will have to look at and confirm have been met by Sutter. We will look at those requirements coming up tomorrow on Newscenter.
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