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Show City mulls landfill study Pleasant Grove's City Council was presented with a proposed landfill study by County Commissioner Malcolm Beck. The proposed study would determine where a new- landfill should be located, and what needs that the county has in the immediate and distant future that will meet EPA standards. Beck said that Provo had the opportunity a number of years ago to do a study to find out what they needed, and they turned that proposal down. He said that now they are in trouble. Beck added that there are numerous solutions, including hauling the garbage to the west side of the lake and burning it. He said, however, that he found in a recent trip to the Davis County burn plant that it has been running into financial problems as there is no market for the energy produced by the plant. Beck said that several different issues would be looked at in the study. First, he said that they would study where would be the best place to put a landfill. Next, they would try to determine how to the water that seeps out from underneath the landfill, and how to keep it from leaching into Utah Lake. He said that in order to participate in the study. Pleasant Grove would have to contribute SHlO. Mayor Holdaway asked the council to think about it. and to get back with him and let him know if they think it will be a necessary expenditure of the city's money to contribute to the study. He added that he would appreciate their input in the next couple of weeks. |