Don Bartles
Manager
(706) 447-7620
Fax (706) 312-7172

Office: 604 Government Center Way Suite 3 Evans, GA  30809 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 498 Evans, GA  30809

Columbia County’s Baker Place Road Landfill reached its permitted capacity and closed on July 1, 2006.  Advanced Disposal Services, a private waste management company, is operating a transfer station at 5734 Columbia Road, (706) 447-3914.  A transfer facility is a temporary storage facility for solid waste.  Waste is collected at a transfer station and sent to a landfill, which permanently stores waste. 

There are a number of waste disposal providers operating in the area.  Please click here for the current list.

For information about recycling in Columbia County, click here.

***The Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Department of Natural Resources, State of Georgia (“EPD”) has requested the preparation of an Assessment of Corrective Measures pursuant to its authority under the Solid Waste Management Rules listed in Chapter 391-3-4-.14 (Groundwater Monitoring and Corrective Action), Section 34 (Assessment of Corrective Measures).  Columbia County investigated the Baker Place Road Landfill Facility and submitted an ACM report to EPD summarizing the results of that investigation in addition to a remedy to bring the Facility back into compliance with the Rules

Click to view the Assessment of Corrective Measures Summary Report

• Oversee closure activities at the Baker Place Road Landfill
• Monitor landfill environmental closure compliance
• Facilitate the re-use of the landfill site

 Accomplishments 

• Executed a service contract for preparation of an RFP for post closure management services, scheduled for advertisement in July 2010
• Completed a thorough review of potential revenue from sale of methane gas resulting in the Board’s decision not to invest in the carbon credit market at this time
• Secured compliance with the methane gas monitoring portion of EPD operating permit for the first time since 1993
• Recognized passive recreation as a potential use of landfill property and began the process of amending zoning for land use compliance and modified EPD permit to allow such use during post-closure phase
• Completed all major repairs and maintenance of landfill waste footprint, access and environmental monitoring structures. Identified needed repairs to storm water detention ponds and secured a service agreement for their reconstruction design
• Completed installation of all drainage, access and tipping platform(s) infrastructure for takeover of Chamblin Road borrow pit reclamation by Roads & Bridges
  

Goals for FY 2010/2011

• Facilitate smooth and economical transition to a private service provider for post closure maintenance & monitoring, greenhouse gas reporting and remediation monitoring
• Secure a master consultant agreement for county’s environmental compliance with land, water and air
• Establish an environmental compliance reserve fund for remediating violations of regulatory guidelines for land, water and air
• Identify potential technologies with sufficient operating scale and business plan to treat waste footprints in both lined and unlined portions of landfill to allow for highest and best development of site
• Identify state and federal funding for landfill remediation program
• Transfer day to day operation of Chamblin Rd borrow pit reclamation to Roads & Bridges
• Lay foundation for future options for residential waste collections should opportunity present itself, and improve this critical private provider service

Useful Links

Georgia Environmental Protection Division		McDuffie County Solid Waste Management
Georgia Soil and Water Conservation Commission		Augusta-Richmond Solid Waste Landfill Services