KENNEBEC JOURNAL • August 30, 2021
With the city-owned Hatch Hill landfill expected to be full in about five years officials have asked a consulting engineer to further study options for waste disposal. Among those options are expanding the landfill vertically, closing it and converting it to a transfer station, reducing the amount of waste accepted from eight surrounding communities that use it, privatizing trash collection, encouraging more recycling or a combination of those ideas.