Russell Selectwoman Pandora Hague was talking trash at last night’s board meeting, and the rest of the selectman seemed happy about it.
Pandora told fellow selectmen Keith Cortis and Jason Boyer that she recently completed uploading the town’s 2011 transfer station numbers to the Department of Environmental Protection website, and the numbers were good.
“Our tonnage dropped and our metal recycling doubled,” said Hague.
The total tonnage of open top dumpster trash in 2010 was 175.07 and decreased to 141.63 in 2011.Metal recycling increased from 9.5 tons in 2010 to 18.5 in 2011. Comingled can and bottle recycling stayed about the same, with a slight decrease in paper from 54.92 in 2010 to 50.06 in 2011.
“Each family that buys a transfer station sticker generates about a ton of trash,” Hague said. “And the metal doubled, which we earn money on. It was a lot of work, but it was very interesting.”
The board also approved allowing Fire Chief Mike Morrissey to discuss a new option to the Carrington Road problem.
“The new method is to dig back the hills and put a fabric in and weave it,” said Cortis.
The engineering firm VHB offered the three previous proposals and Morrissey, with the board’s approval, will discuss the new option.
“This is so much cheaper,” said Hague of the fabric method. “We should definitely look into it.”
The cost of the previously chosen method was estimated at $1.2 million.
“This will cost about half of that,” said Cortis.
