Madison in talks about $327,000 soil project at main landfill
MARSHALL – The floor of Madison County’s largest landfill is in need of major renovation. The county received an update on planned major renovations to the floor.
Waste Management Director Sam Lunsford appeared before the Madison County Board of Commissioners on August 13 to discuss the project, adding that the project will cost approximately $327,000.
Lunsford said Osborn Contract Services’ bid is $314,000, plus $13,000 for new asphalt in front of the station to be paid to French Broad Paving.
Lunsford said the concrete slab floor of the transfer station at the main landfill on Rudisill Road in Marshall needs to be repaired.
“The necessary repairs to the floor are not something that didn’t happen suddenly,” Lunsford said, adding that the county noticed the wear and tear on the floor around 2011.
“The county received a bid to repair the soil 13 years ago,” Lunsford said. “So this is something that has been on the landfill’s radar, and it needs to be done at some point.”
According to Lunsford, about a year ago, the right side of the landfill typically experienced more wear and tear because that was where the shear wall was in operation.
“This wear extends to where the original concrete was poured and to the rebar,” Lunsford said. “When we noticed this, I started a conversation with McGill.”
Lunsford and the county’s solid waste team worked with McGill Associates and obtained a quote from Osborn Contract Services, a company that specializes in installing epoxy flooring in transfer stations.
Lunsford says timing is one of the waste team’s most important considerations.
“The garbage will continue to arrive,” said the head of the garbage collection service.
“There are companies that offer to come on Friday and you can go back to work on Monday.”
The epoxy resin process is an evolution of the previous construction method, which used only concrete. Lunsford estimates the renovations will last 25 to 30 years.
The transfer station was built in 2000 and used the concrete floor during this time.
However, Lunsford expects the epoxy flooring to last even longer than the 25 to 30 years due to the smaller tonnage Madison County must process compared to other counties in the state.
Scope of work
The process begins with cleaning the floor, followed by a machine that breaks up the surface debris.
A binding agent is then poured over the old concrete to bond it to the new epoxy system, Lunsford said.
“Once that’s done, they put another hardener on it so it hardens much faster and is ready to go again on Monday,” Lunsford said.
The asphalt road section of the project will be carried out in two phases.
financing
According to Lunsford, the Waste Management Authority initially allocated $180,000 for the project last year.
Lunsford said the department also has additional funds in capital expenditure accounts that would fully cover the project.
“I already knew it was coming, so I started working with finance director Kary Ledford two years ago,” Lunsford said.
Vice Chairman Michael Garrison said the weekend project with Osborn made the most sense.
“A five-day closure would be a disaster,” Garrison said.
Johnny Casey covered Madison County for three years for The Citizen Times and The News-Record & Sentinel. He received first place in breaking news coverage at the 2023 North Carolina Press Association Awards. Reach him at 828-210-6074 or [email protected].
