VALDOSTA — The state’s third longest civilian runway was cleared for a backup power source and other improvements, and the City of Valdosta transferred liabilities attached to 17 acres of buried garbage in a tract next to the city’s old landfill during Thursday evening’s regular session of the Valdosta City Council.
The 17-acre tract was bought to offload management of groundwater and methane from a neighboring 74-acre parcel, where the city’s landfill once sat, according to City Manager Larry Hanson. The complementary strip of land containing waste wells and buried garbage was omitted when the city out-sourced landfill operations, stated Hanson.
“When this transaction took place some years ago and Violia (now Advanced Disposal Services) was acquiring the city’s landfill, the assumption was made by their attorney that it was all one tract of land,” said Hanson. “So he just picked up the 74 acre tract in the deed’s legal description without realizing that there was a small, 17 acre sliver that ran along side of it.”
The omission was unearthed back in February of 2010 when Advanced Disposal Services agreed to acquire the 74 acre landfill, which had been leased back to the city until permits could be obtained and other terms fulfilled by the disposal company, according to Hanson.
The disposal company agreed to take on the lot, while it reconfigured the Violia Evergreen Landfill, in a project development agreement with the City of Valdosta and the Deep South Regional Municipal Solid Waste Management Authority back in November of 2010. The city’s interest in ditching the 17 acre tract, however, comes down to ridding itself of an environmental liability, stated Hanson.
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