Adams County commissioners will review plans today for a landfill proposal that has drawn fire from the county planning commission.
Alpine Waste & Recycling wants to open a 165-acre landfill on Schumaker Road near Bennett.
The dump was permitted to receive coal ash. But in 2005, Adams County planners approved Alpine’s request to use the landfill for household waste instead.
That prompted a legal skirmish with neighboring landowners, who fear the landfill will be an environmental problem.
The county agreed to weigh the household waste plan in its planning commission and then the commissioners.
Earlier this month, the planning board urged commissioners to deny the application.
Commissioners are slated to take up the Alpine proposal at a public hearing at 10 a.m.
