Before our tour of the Riverbend Landfill, there will be a meeting at 8:30 at the same facility. Suggested topics:

1) Steering Committee formation – if you have any interest in actively participating in the organizational aspects of Cool Mac, please come with your ideas!

2) Nonprofit status

3) Turkeyrama booth and booth for Farmer’s Market

4) Brochure

5) Booklet of local businesses

6) Website management/populating

7) Participation in local government (including new ordinances for Big Box stores)

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Hope to see you Saturday. See previous blog for pertinent information about the Riverbend Landfill tour.

George Duvendack will be presenting some of the environmental work the local landfill has been doing including an update on their exciting energy production plans.

We will be meeting at Riverbend Landfill for the upcoming Cool Mac meeting on Saturday March 15th at 9:30 am. George Duvendack will be presenting some of the environmental work the local landfill has been doing including an update on their exciting energy production plans. Below George gives the address to the meeting room at the landfill and a brief description of what he will be presenting at the meeting.

Location:

The office is located directly off Hwy 18 about 3.5 miles south of McMinnville. As soon as you turn off the hwy, make an immediate left into the parking lot. The address is 13469 SW Hwy 18.

“Modern landfills are an important part of today’s waste management systems. Today’s landfills provide environmentally safe disposal of waste that is generated by our society and provide economic resources to communities. These landfills include robust liner, groundwater monitoring systems, and waste water management systems to protect groundwater, and landfill gas extraction systems to collect and manage the gas generated by the decomposition of waste.

Riverbend Landfill currently operates a unique leachate management system that uses poplar trees to consume the waste water generated by the landfill, and is working with McMinnville Water and Light to construct and operate a
landfill gas to energy facility that will provide approximately 4 Mega Watts of energy to light homes with gas generated by the landfill.

I look forward to talking with you and sharing ideas about our environment.”
~George Duvendack, Riverbend Landfill Manager