Brunswick Waste Management Facility, Inc. (BWMF) Landfill Operations

The Out-of-County Waste Transportation and Disposal Program includes a 15-year contract (with a 5-year extension option) with Brunswick Waste Management Facility, Inc. for waste transportation and disposal services. The contract was executed in June 1997 and the initial 15-year contract term runs through June 30, 2012. Services began October 20, 1997. This enabled the closure of the Oaks Landfill in Montgomery County on October 22, 1997.

The objective of the contract and associated administration and support requirements is to assure that ash residue from the County’s Resource Recovery Facility (RRF), nonprocessible waste such as construction and demolition debris, and bypass waste (burnable waste not processed at the RRF) generated in Montgomery County and managed at County solid waste facilities is transported to the contractor’s facility in Brunswick County, Virginia and disposed in the County’s contracted dedicated disposal cell.

From approximately June 1999 - June 2001, an ash recycling pilot was funded under this program, and about 3,000 tons per month of ash residue (about 25% of what was generated) is transported to American Ash Recycling (AAR) in York, PA. Upon the end of the pilot program, the Northeast Mayrland Waste Disposal Authority solicited proposals for various ash beneficial reuse alternatives. the economic viability and operational fearibility of future ash recycling alternatives is still being assesed.

The transportation system to the landfill includes a rail haul system for ash residue and other waste from the RRF and a truck haul system from the County’s Transfer Station and other County locations as needed.

Rail cars carry 20-foot containers of ash at Collier Rail Yard in Petersburg, VA.

Nonburnable waste that was delivered in a 40-foot closed container being tipped at the dedicated disposal cell.

A recently expanded area of the dedicated disposal cell.

A 20-foot ash container being tipped at the dedicated disposal cell.

This page last updated: March 29, 2004

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