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Article: Sewerage district won't build new waste facility Private firm will continue to collect household hazardous materials
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 25, 1997
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Household hazardous waste, such as old gasoline, pesticides and
solvents, will continue to be collected under a private contract
because it would cost too much for the sewerage district to build
its own facility, municipal officials were told Monday.
The cost of building and operating its own facility would require
spending about $300,000 a year more than the $711,000 projected cost
of the hazardous waste disposal contract in 1998, said Anne Spray
Kinney, executive director of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage
District.
Kinney told members of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council
that building a hazardous waste facility also would leave the
sewerage district at risk for the ...