A grant funded by the USDA allowed the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District to team up with the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association

LYNDONVILLE — A grant funded by the USDA allowed the Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District to team up with the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association to devise help for municipalities on how to address closed landfills across the region. The information gathered during the project the past year was presented by a project manager from NEWMOA during Tuesday’s NEKWMD Board of Supervisors meeting. The project resulted in outreach materials and guidance documents for the many closed landfills in Vermont, NEKWMD Executive Director Paul Tomasi noted, “Literally, every town in Vermont has at least one closed landfill. Some of these sites require perpetual care and others have slipped through the cracks.” Tomasi said it’s difficult to say exactly how many closed landfills there are across the waste district’s nearly 50 towns, but they are numerous.