A $1.5 million proposal to construct a waste transfer station near the city garage in the Freeman Field Industrial Park in Seymour would combat increasing fuel costs, improve employee morale, could pay for itself in a few years and more. Chad Dixon, director of the Seymour Department of Public Works, outlined the plan during a recent city council meeting while discussing his request for that amount from the $4.16 million in American Rescue Plan funds the city has received.
That request, however, was tabled along with other similar requests from city department heads and nonprofits pending clarification of how each would fit within the city ordinance because it requires showing loss incurred by the COVID-19 pandemic between Jan. 1, 2020, and March 3, 2021. “It’s going to make quite a bit of difference for Seymour,” Dixon said. “Just for our operations and everything else, it’s going to be more efficient.”
With a waste transfer station, waste would be collected from throughout the city by smaller automated waste hauling trucks and held before three loads are combined into one semitrailer to Rumpke’s Medora Landfill.