Transfer tanks project set to start at landfill

The Whitman County waste transfer station tank replacement project is set to begin Aug. 14 with contractor M.A. DeAtley of Clarkston. The project will replace an evaporation pond with two 10,000 gallon tanks.

County road department workers demolished the original pond last week.

The total project is scheduled to be done in November with no disruption in service at the transfer station expected.

All told, two 10,000-gallon steel tanks will take the place of the former 90x90 foot, 180,000-gallon evaporation pond which served to evaporate all water amidst garbage drained off from the floor of the...