Watch video of Mark Yeager's powerful testimony before Corvallis City Council on Tuesday Jan 17 2023 regarding the City's practice of accepting leachate from Coffin Butte Landfill into their municipal…
[This was a letter to the editor in the Corvallis Gazette-Times, Jan 4th, 2023] This spring, Republic Services plans to submit new applications to expand the landfill north of Corvallis.…
[This was a public comment at the first Trash Talk Workgroup meeting] Gee, I’m old enough to remember back when this workgroup was going to explore the future of solid…
Because the last application to expand the landfill (LU-21-047) was so contentious, Benton County hired an independent third party to recommend something different. We were initially hopeful when Darren Nichols,…
In the summer of 2021, Republic Services applied to Benton County for permission to expand the Coffin Butte Landfill… again (they’ve expanded a number of times in the past). This…
Coffin Butte Landfill is situated in one of the wettest parts of the Willamette Valley, on geologically complex land. This poses significant environmental problems. The wetter the climate, the more…
Republic Services, Inc., a for-profit, out-of-state corporation, owns and operates the landfill through a subsidiary corporation, Valley Landfills, Inc. (VLI). VLI reaps the landfill’s profits and shares a tiny percentage…
A clause in the 2020 Landfill Franchise Agreement (FA) between Republic Services and Benton County is worded such that if any expansion onto the property south of Coffin Butte Road…
Another reason to not allow any new expansion: Republic Services has repeatedly flouted the rules (such as conditions of approval in land use applications for past expansions) and gotten away…
Working to protect Benton County, Oregon from further expansions of the Coffin Butte Landfill
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