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Ten Sleep Solid Waste District facing DEQ changes

Ten Sleep landfill to become a transfer station

TEN SLEEP – Due to prioritization by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), municipal unlined landfills across Wyoming are facing either mandatory transfer of refuse, or closure. For Ten Sleep, the deadline is looming.

According to Ten Sleep Solid Waste District Manager Holly Redland, the landfill has until June 2017 to install a scale, and prepare for all trash from that point for...