Texas County Official’s Proposal Would Restrict Future Area LandfillsTexas County Official’s Proposal Would Restrict Future Area Landfills

During a public meeting over the weekend, Brazos County, Texas officials detailed a plan that would restrict where future landfills could be located in the county.

A 100-acre county-owned site, a former landfill from the 1980s, is the focus of the County’s proposal, but the intention is not to put a landfill in the space right away, but to control any future landfill coming in and keep it in this designated area.

This condition would prevent a private company from buying land in the county to build a landfill without any control from the county.

“By designating that as the only place that a landfill can be. Then the Commissioner’s Court can have any control over whether a company wants to come in and put in a private landfill, then the Commissioner’s Court has some say about it. Otherwise, we don’t,” said Duane Peters, Brazos County Judge.

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