Highland Landfill in Belmont – 1995 vs 2020
LEFT - 1995
RIGHT - 2020
Voters in Allegany County, New York, have given Casella Waste Systems Inc., Rutland, Vermont, the green light to more than double the acreage and capacity for municipal solid waste at its Hyland Landfill, reports FingerLakes1.com.
On Nov. 3, Angelica town and village residents voted 347-252 to approve a ballot proposition that dangled $78 million in future payments to those municipalities as a condition to adding 107 acres to the 78-acre landfill.
According to FingerLakes1.com, the project would raise Hyland’s permitted capacity from 465,000 tons of waste a year to 1 million tons and boost it to the fourth largest MSW landfill in the state, up from No. 8.
Casella is still “three to four years” away from obtaining all the necessary local and state permits to complete the expansion, said Larry Shilling, vice president of landfill and business development for the company.