Renewable Energy

Shoreland Zoning

Down East Coastal Scenic Inventory

Solid Waste Management
 

The WCCOG is again seeking a Solid Waste Management Grant from the Rural Utilities Service of the USDA. The grant application narrative is available here, as well as the proposed budget and the matching funds table. We are also seeking support letters to submit with the application. Please download a support letter template here and send in PDF format to Judy East no later than December 30th, 2011. If you are putting your letter in the mail please allow for delivery prior to December 30th and thank you!

In 2010, WCCOG obtained a $42,385.00 Solid Waste Management Grant from the Rural Utilities Service of the USDA. Notice of the award was announced in July, 2010 and funds will start in October, 2010 and allow WCCOG staff to assist Washington County communities with a scope of work to include:

• worked with residents, transfer station managers and municipalities to develop programs to permanently increase recycling rates in Washington County.

• organized three collections of household hazardous waste, and two collections of universal waste resulting in the collection of 3 56-long tractor trailer loads of universal waste and the following tally of household hazardous waste:

Solid Waste Advisory Committee
Betsy Fitzgerald, Washington County Manager
Milan Jamieson, Marion Transfer Station
James Loughlin, Baileyville Regional Transfer Station
Robert Grant, Pleasant River Transfer Station
John Spinney, Town Perry
Linda Pagels-Wentworth, Town of Baileyville

Recycling Technical Assistance
WCCOG staff is working with regional transfer stations to work on solutions for storage, containment, compaction, shipping and markets for the sorted recyclable materials, and assist in securing funds for facilities to support financially sustainable recycling programs.

Marion Recycling Center Feasibility Study
In December 2010, WCCOG staff worked with the Board of the Marion Transfer Station to obtain a Planning Grant through the Washington County TIF Fund. The objective of the Feasibility Study is to assist the Marion Board in making a decision about whether or not to expand recycling operation at the Transfer Station.

As part of that work WCCOG issued a Request for Proposals (issued week of Aug 8-13; due September 10, 2011) for a qualified civil engineering firm to prepare a conceptual site plan and preliminary cost estimates for the proposed regional recycling facility on the grounds of the Marion Transfer Station in Marion Township, Maine.   The work was completed in December, 2011 by CES Inc. and can be downloaded here:

Conceptual Site Plan

Floor Plan

Cost Estimate

For more information, please contact Judy East at 454-0465.

WCCOG is a municipal membership organization that delivers a wide range of customized planning, advisory
and resources development services to help communities build the future of Washington County, Maine.

Washington County Council of Gov'ts
PO Box 631, Calais, ME 04619
(207) 454-0465 Fax: (207) 454-2568
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