GLENWOOD SPRINGS —Garfield County commissioners, following a seven-hour-long meeting Monday, continued until mid-November a public hearing to consider a highly controversial proposal for a solid waste transfer and recycling processing facility near Carbondale.
In the meantime, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) will be asked to do a technical review of the facility, which is being proposed by local waste hauler Mountain Rolloffs Inc. (MRI).
The transfer facility would be located at the former Mid-Continent Resources coal loadout on County Road 100 (Catherine Store Road) two miles east of Carbondale.
The 35-acre site is owned by a group of local investors known as IRMW II LLC. It has continued to be used for a range of light industrial purposes since the coal mines closed in the early 1990s.
MRI representatives agreed to the health department review at Monday’s hearing.
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