The new building at Gilford’s transfer station will be completed by the end of the fall, but completion of the project will have to wait for residents to approve an additional $400,000 expenditure at next year’s town meeting. Town Administrator Scott Dunn said the extra money is needed for electrical work, paving, a restroom facility that will require a well and septic system, and some equipment — a baler, trash compactor and a Bobcat-like vehicle to move material.
Dunn noted that the $400,000 appropriation would come from the town’s surplus fund balance. Gilford has about $4 million set aside, which is at the high end of what the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration suggests towns maintain to cover such things as tax abatements and exemptions, court challenges, and catastrophic events.
Gilford has an agreement with the Concord Regional Solid Waste District for the disposal of its solid waste, so the town has no immediate concerns about having a place to get rid of trash. The Concord facility incinerates the trash to produce electricity.
Construction already has started on the expanded transfer station, with a 55-foot by 80-foot building for recyclables and universal waste such as televisions, fluorescent bulbs and computers. The long-term plan calls for increasing the staff from one full-time and one part-time person to two full-time and two part-time employees, Dunn said. The modified single-stream process will be replaced with full source separation.
Right now, residents are asked to separate cardboard and glass, but plastics, aluminum and other recyclable materials are co-mingled in the single-stream process. “The new facility will involve separating all of that,” Dunn said.
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