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Article: Landfill loss dumps bill on city of Milwaukee
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- Daily Reporter (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2008
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Milwaukee will pay roughly $500,000 more per year to dispose of
dirt from its projects once the Hartung landfill closes and becomes
a park.
The city has dumped clean fill and asphalt from public works jobs
in the former quarry property for 30 years and avoided landfill
costs the whole time. But those days will end in the next few years
once the quarry's hole is finally full.
"You look at 50,000 cubic yards, and you are paying $10 a yard,
it adds up," said Ghassan Korban, coordination manager for the
city's Department of Public Works. "It's been definitely a valuable
resource for us. It helps out."
But Milwaukee will get a short extension on its dumping
privileges because residents living ...