Putnam County currently taking bids for a new transfer station to expand the county’s solid waste capabilities.
Solid Waste Director Doug Ashburn said the second station would allow the department to load twice as many trailers with waste each day. Ashburn said the station would allow the county several more years to manage its growth and stay where it is without having to purchase more land.
“Solid waste is one of the first departments that see, actually see the growth before some other things happen because everybody has household trash,” Ashburn said. “And I’m not sure what the current census is, but we have seen quite a bit of increase.”
Ashburn said the new station would be located right next to the current one off of South Jefferson Avenue. Bids for the new facility will be unsealed on February 28.
Ashburn said the existing tipping floor is in need of repairs as that transfer station has not been upgraded since it was built in 1995.
“I would like to see this first phase, building a new floor, maybe done by the end of this calendar year,” Ashburn said. “Hoping to be able to possibly break ground by April, first of April, middle of April maybe.”
Ashburn said the new facility would be 7,200 square feet, about the same size as the current transfer station.
“It’ll act as a second station, Ashburn said. “We’d be able to simultaneously load two trailers at once. We’ll get the new one built and then the phase two would be repairing the existing floor that we have now.”
Ashburn said his department handled over seventy thousand tons of municipal solid waste in 2024. Ashburn said his department currently loads ten to eleven semi-trucks of municipal solid waste every day.
“It’ll be a learning curve,” Ashburn said. “But once we get the hiccups worked out that would give Putnam County room to at least handle maybe up to a hundred and forty thousand tons a year, which would be a huge win for Putnam County.”
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