By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
A project designed to help keep the St. Joseph city landfill up and running is progressing quickly with the construction of cell eight.
City Manager Mike Schumacher says the construction being done by M-Con on the cell is about 77% complete
"We'll be moving to the next phase of that soon which involves clay and sand, piping, all the things that go into building a landfill and then ultimately a liner and we'll be good to go," Schumacher tells KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr.
Schumacher says while he's grateful of the D-N-R for approving more space, it does not mean the city can become complacent.
"The issue still exists, but all of us are working in partnership," Schumacher explains. "Whether it's M-Con, Darkota out there with his crews are just doing a bang-up job helping M-Con and making the most of all available space, and then the state of Missouri with D-N-R has been incredibly helpful."
Wanting to avoid any future problems, Schumacher says he's already put people to work on the development of cell nine
"While we expect Cell 8, hopefully, to last several years, I've already asked the crews to begin work on Cell 9, so we can work on that as time permits," Schumacher says.
Schumacher says the landfill is currently well staffed and says the city will not rest and wants to see cell nine excavated
"We will not do the sand and clay and liner all that kind of good stuff yet, but we'll at least have the hole dug, so we'll be good to go on that," Schumacher says.
Schumacher says that cell eight should get done in time but hesitates to give a definitive date of completion.
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