Kenai Peninsula In Alaska Expands Landfill

Date: October 1, 2003

Source: News Room

The expansion of the Central Peninsula Landfill in Alaska's Kenai Borough Peninsula is now underway, as forty acres of land have been cleared and 630,000 cubic yards of land are being excavated. Borough voters last year approved the sale of up to $12 million in bonds to pay for all expenses related to building two landfill cells over the next decade. CIC Inc. of Soldotna is handling the clearing and excavating work at the landfill, and the company hopes to have the majority of the work done before winter sets in. The liner and leachate systems will be installed in the spring of 2004. The Kenai Peninsula Borough Authority recently named the landfill project its top state funding priority in an effort to improve its chances of receiving the $2.24 million it has requested from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's matching grant program.

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