The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality will conduct a public hearing March 20 in Charleston to describe and allow input into a county plan to operate a solid waste transfer station northwest of Charleston.
The Tallahatchie County Board of Supervisors submitted the permit application to MDEQ for permission to operate the Tallahatchie County Waste Transfer Station.
The facility, which would be located at 15660 Mississippi Highway 35, in a hilly area not far from the city's wastewater treatment lagoon, would include a partially enclosed, three-walled, 2,300-square-foot building.
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Solid waste collected by the county would be held there for up to one week before its transfer to a landfill outside of the county.
According to county filings with MDEQ, the transfer station would manage the collection, sorting and transfer of approximately 23 tons of waste materials per day.
Waste tires also would be collected and placed in an on-site trailer at the site for eventual disposal.
The transfer station would occupy a portion of a nearly 52-acre tract of county-owned land at the site.
The public hearing will begin at 6 p.m. at the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Charleston.
Click here to read the full text of the public notice submitted by MDEQ for publication in the Feb. 13 edition of The Sun-Sentinel.
