Rumpke purchased 466 acres of land adjacent to the current Bond Road Landfill in Whitewater Township, Ohio.
With this purchase, Rumpke will continue to develop the site and make improvements to the site including:
•New entrance: Relocating the landfill entrance to Sand Run Road, which will improve traffic safety, ensure direct access to I-275 and create an attractive façade along Sand Run Road.
•New infrastructure: Rumpke is adding a new commercial drive, truck scales, scale house, wheel wash and storage area.
•New space: Rumpke will begin permitting additional landfill space as a contingency only, with no plans for immediate use.
These renovations and site updates will occur from now through 2024, and over time the landfill will begin to accept trash daily. Although engineering work, the renovations mentioned above and landfill permitting for additional capacity may begin within the next couple of years, landfill construction on the newly purchased property won’t start for decades. In fact, many of the previous homeowners will continue to live in their homes.
It’s important to clarify and emphasize that there are no plans to make the Bond Road facility the same type of disposal site as Rumpke Sanitary Landfill in Colerain Township. The two facilities are very different and will remain that way. Rumpke’s Colerain Township landfill will continue to be the primary site for the tri-state’s trash. The Colerain site recently received permitting for 30 years of additional capacity and is permitted to accept up to 12,500 tons per day.
Rumpke’s New Baltimore Landfill, a much smaller construction and demolition debris site, is almost full and will close later this year, prompting consideration of alternative capacity for smaller landfill volumes. Identifying alternative landfill capacity at Rumpke’s other sites, allows us to better conserve essential capacity at Rumpke Sanitary Landfill.
Published in the May 2021 Edition
