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Butte-Silver Bow digging itself a big hole | Local

Most Butte residents now pay just over $106 a year to have their garbage picked up and hauled to the landfill by McGee Trucking, but that’s for collections. The other fees cover landfill operations.

Costs for the new cell are being funded by a capital reserve account set up years ago when the landfill started operating just north of Rocker in 1993, so residents aren’t paying higher fees to fund it, officials say.

Digging at the new cell — the fourth at the landfill — began in late May and much is completed. The more complicated work will begin soon.

Next steps involve multiple layers of lining being put down, each serving specific purposes in an overall effort to keep anything, such as oils or household chemicals, from leaking out and making its way to groundwater.

Pat Cunneen, the county’s senior operations engineer, said a lot of the construction cost is in the liners and ensuring they are properly installed. Part of installation is connecting them to the liners of the current cell.

“When they get down to the final grade, it gets very technical,” Cunneen said. “We are talking tenths of inches that are important.”

Like previous cells, the groundwater underneath this one will be monitored, as will methane gas and other things. Decomposing material, including garbage, produces methane gas and if pockets get too big, they can become explosive, Cunneen said.

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