EASTERN WAKE COUNTY
Shotwell Landfill is requesting approval to accept more waste and
from more counties, similar to the proposals Wake County commissioners
have dumped twice in recent years.
The new request is scheduled to go before the county commission on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
The 133-acre, privately-owned landfill on Smithfield Road south of Knightdale and Wendell currently accepts construction and demolition waste, only from Wake and Johnston counties.
It wants to add Orange County and the remaining counties contiguous to Wake – Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett and Nash – to its service territory.
The landfill also wants to quadruple its daily disposal limit, from 250 to 1,000 tons of waste.
Keith Johnson, a lawyer with the Raleigh law firm of Poyner-Spruill, represents Shotwell Landfill. He says the request does not call for an expansion of the facility or ask for the ability to accept any new kinds of waste. <more>
The new request is scheduled to go before the county commission on Tuesday, Sept. 6.
The 133-acre, privately-owned landfill on Smithfield Road south of Knightdale and Wendell currently accepts construction and demolition waste, only from Wake and Johnston counties.
It wants to add Orange County and the remaining counties contiguous to Wake – Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett and Nash – to its service territory.
The landfill also wants to quadruple its daily disposal limit, from 250 to 1,000 tons of waste.
Keith Johnson, a lawyer with the Raleigh law firm of Poyner-Spruill, represents Shotwell Landfill. He says the request does not call for an expansion of the facility or ask for the ability to accept any new kinds of waste. <more>
