Republic to Pay for $20 Million Landfill Cap in Vegas

Date: April 18, 2010

Source: News Room

Republic Services will invest $20 million in a project to cap a long closed landfill near Las Vegas, NV. Flood waters had destroyed part of the original cap in 1998. However, disagreement over the extent and cost of the liability, estimated be as much as $70 million, prevented action until now. Work on the 440-acre Sunrise Mountain Landfill is expected to begin this summer and culminate in 2012. The US EPA recently approved engineering plans for the permanent cap and drainage system.

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