Written by Bob Balgemann
Long-closed Belvidere landfill continues to be costly There are 22 monitoring wells at various points around the old garbage dump.
Now there is more expense for the county, $58,760 to have TRC improve the leachate extraction system. The board at its July 17 meeting approved that expenditure, with $25,000 being spent in the current fiscal year and $33,760 in the 2013-14 fiscal year. …..
Terrinoni told the roads and capital improvements committee at its July 2 meeting that he felt a shiver in his spine when it was suggested the chromium problem could mean the monitoring wells are failing.
“They’re not saying that now,” he said….
Water, sewer connection fee
BELVIDERE – The Boone County Board is asking the city of Belvidere to waive an $11,000 connection fee it assessed for connecting the Maple Crest nursing home to its water and sewer system.
That action came in an 11-0 vote at the board’s July 17 meeting.
City-county coordinating committee member Bill Pysson first suggested the reduction in cost during the July 10 meeting. “We’re not asking for a lot,” he said.
His suggestion went to the full board one week later.
“The original project (cost) was paid by the county and a grant,” District 2 board member Paul Larson said. “Our opinion is the county already this and that this (charge) is redundant.”….
Farming county land
BELVIDERE – The Boone County Board has concurred with a recommendation from the roads and capital improvements committee to bid out 68 acres of county farmland for the 2015 crop year.
The 10-0 vote, with one abstention, came at the board’s July 17 meeting.
Gerald Hulstedt currently is renting the land, off Illinois 76, for $250 an acre. He has been renting that property for 53 years, county board Chairman Bob Walberg said.
