KINGSTON – With time running out on Ulster County’s current solid waste disposal at an upstate landfill, the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency would like to expand its bonding authority to explore landfill options.
The agency’s current bonding limit, as set by the county legislature is $500,000, but the board would like to expand that to $10 million, said Acting Executive Director Timothy DeGraff, following Monday’s session.
“We have to start looking into final disposal options, be it an in-county landfill or some other technology, but we have to start researching that,” he said. “We may find out that there is no place in Ulster County that we can put a landfill from a geological standpoint, so that way we know we can eliminate that option and move on to other things,” he said.
The county’s current method of waste disposal, at Seneca Meadows in Waterloo, New York, is set to close down at the end of 2025.
