County seeks engineer for landfill cell closure

The endgame for landfill cell No. 4 is part of a request for qualifications now being prepared to go out seeking an engineer at the Whitman County Waste Transfer Site.

The cell No. 4 project is to go along with work on the closed cells No. 1, 2 and 3, regarding final checks on the liner over the top and gas monitoring systems.

Cell No. 3 was closed in 1993, shortly after No. 1 and 2.

By law, the cells are to be monitored for final closure on a 20 year-timeframe.

“We should've been able to walk away from that in 2013, but we didn't have all our ducks in a row,” said David Nails, Whitman County...