Eagle Pass City Council Approves To Close Municipal Type IV Landfill

By: Miguel Munoz, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2017

The City of Eagle Pass, Texas City Council unanimously approved to authorize the City Manager Arturo B. Rodriguez to commence the application process with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for shutting down or closing the Municipal Landfill Type IV Permit at its special meeting held on Tuesday, November 14, 2017. A Municipal Type IV Landfill accepts construction debris and trees and limbs type of solid waste.

According to City Finance and Business Director Jesus Rodriguez, Jr., the application and closure process to shut down the City of Eagle Pass Municipal Landfill Type IV Permit will take approximately a year to complete with TCEQ.  

Rodriguez advised City Council that the City’s Finance and Business Department had done a study on the municipal landfill located on FM 131 near the Radar Base in northern Maverick County and found that the City will save $273,000 annually by closing the landfill rather than maintaining it open. Rodriguez noted that the City of Eagle Pass will install and operate a Citizens Collection Station at the City’s Public Works Yard on Eidson Road to dispose of their Type IV Landfill waste such a s construction debris and trees and shrubs once the City’s Radar Base Landfill is closed down.  Eagle Pass residents will be allowed to continue disposing of their personal household Type IV municipal waste free of charge as it is today.  

The City Council went into Executive Session to consult with the City Attorney law firm of Langley & Banack regarding the municipal landfill and an existing inter-local agreement between the City of Eagle Pass and Maverick County concerning the disposition and use of the Type IV Landfill.

After a forty minute Executive Session, the City Council returned to Open Session and proceeded to unanimously approve the authorization of the City Manager to commence the application process with TCEQ to close down the City’s Type IV municipal landfill at the Radar Base.  Councilmember Luis E. Sifuentes noted that the City will save approximately $273,000 annually and will take about a year to complete the shut down process with TCEQ.

Once the Eagle Pass Municipal Type IV Landfill is closed, Eagle Passans will have to go to either the Citizens Collection Station at Public Works or the Maverick County Landfill on FM 1021 near El Indio, Texas.