The two weeks of free residential trash dumping brought major traffic delays, a big price tag for the landfill and no plan yet to pay for it.
Updated: 20 seconds agoPeople dispose of garbage at the Matanuska-Susitna Borough landfill in Palmer on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. at the Mat-Su landfill and transfer stations in September cost more than double what borough officials originally estimated, they said — and now they have to figure out how to pay for it.
“As the two weeks developed and more people became aware of the free event, the traffic started getting heavier and heavier,” said Jeff Smith, the borough’s solid waste manager. “People were lining up about 6:30 in the morning for an eight o’clock opening. And we were shutting down at five o’clock sharp, typically with people in line that we couldn’t service during the day.”
The ordinance governing the free trash days did not block non-borough residents from accessing the service. Landfill staff does not perform ID checks at the gate. The free trash days, which applied to residential waste only, were designed to help residents get rid of waste before winter, Rob Yundt, one of three assembly members who co-sponsored the legislation, said early last month. Assembly members Mokie Tew and Dmitri Fonov also co-sponsored the legislation. All three are running for reelection Nov. 7.
“I knew it was going to be bad but this is even worse than I expected,” Nowers said. “It was, in my opinion, completely fiscally irresponsible to do this.”
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