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| News - Linn County News | |||
| Written by Charlene Sims | |||
| Wednesday, 04 November 2009 08:00 | |||
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MOUND CITY — The Linn County Landfill soon will have scales in place to weigh trucks dumping solid waste. Landfill Coordinator Joe Maloney told county commissioners Monday that the portable scales should be delivered this week. Commissioner Mike Page said there still will be expenses in finishing the project. The concrete has to be poured, the building constructed, heating and air conditioning installed electrical service put in, and a catwalk or walkway set up. “Joe and I sat down and put together a little sketch and sent it out to seven contractors,” Page said. “It will probably end up costing $12,000 to $13,000 total for the pad for the catwalk and building and the electrical.” Maloney told commissioners he had a bid from Dillard Ungeheuer for two steel gates. The commissioners approved the bid for $2,655 for installation of the gates. Uninstalled, the gates would have cost $1,750. Commissioner Vicki Leonard noted that there still is going to be a good savings of about $7,000 compared with what had been budgeted for the project. The commissioners gave Maloney permission to go over six bids for the concrete flat work, the retaining wall and a cap for the wall at the scales and to make the decision by choosing the lowest bidder that can get good quality work completed quickly for up to $5,000. In other landfill business, the commissioners on Monday: Heard from Maloney that Ryan Weiser of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment had determined that the high levels of arsenic shown in the testing well were not caused by the landfill, but the readings probably stem from past mining operations at the site. The wells will not be monitored again until 2013. Learned from County Clerk David Lamb that the landfill property was purchased by the county in 1990. “I don’t know what we were doing before that,” he said. Commission Chairman Herb Pemberton said he thought everything was going to the landfill owned by Marshall Tatum before 1990.
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