Wolff repeats call for new Orange County landfill

Mayoral candidate Kevin Wolff repeated his call for a new Orange County landfill at this week's forum.

Wolff had already called for a landfill at a forum sponsored by the Sierra Club. This time he spoke at a forum sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, Empowerment Inc., the Daily Tar Heel and WCHL.

Wolff said he does not want a transfer station near the Rogers Road community or to send the town's waste outside Orange County. "We can take the time and do it right and do our own landfill," he said. "We are fools as a town if we invest in outting our waste in somebody else's town."

Augustus Cho said the solid waste question is outside the town's control. He noted that waste disposal is a county function that town has little say in, other than offering or rejecting its land for a solid waste facility. "Beyond rhetoric there's not much we can do about it."  

Matt Czajkowski said he opposes a transfer station but did not say what the town and county should do with its trash. Mark Kleinschmidt said the trash laid at the doorstep of the Rogers Road community needs to come to an end. But he said a transfer station might be necessary in the short term on the way to a regional solution.

The county is considering a partnership with Durham on an epxansion of that city's transfer station. Chatham County has also said it might be interested in a regional partnership as it considers building a new landfill.