News 19 February 2019

Landfill may be closed but still must be maintained

A former landfill may be closed but it still has to be maintained.The Chickasaw County Board of Supervisors last week approved an Iowa Department of Natural Resources permit for treatment agreement and supplemental user agreement on landfill leachate with the city of Fredericksburg.The city approved both agreements and has now signed them.The permit was approved unanimously.An agreement tells the DNR that the Fredericksburg wastewater facility is handling the leachate that is taken out of that closed landfill, Sanitarian Staci Schutte said. — For more on this story, see the Feb. 19 New Hampton Tribune. 

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