Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Williamson County's landfill could start taking Killeen's waste

From statesman.com, May 30, 2008...

The amount of waste coming into Williamson County's controversial landfill could increase dramatically under an proposed agreement between the City of Killeen and the landfill's operator, Waste Management of Texas.

The Killeen City Council gave the go-ahead Tuesday for the city to negotiate a contract with Waste Management to send the roughly 100,000 tons of waste that Killeen produces each year to Williamson County's landfill. Last year, the landfill took in 250,000 tons of waste from Williamson County, parts of Travis County and Salado, said Don Smith, Waste Management's Central Texas general manager.

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