Town To Vote On Landfill
$22.23 million needed to build a new transfer station and cap the landfill
Marblehead residents will decide June 15 if the town will "pay the piper," as the health director described it, and raise $22.23 million in debt to build a new landfill transfer station and install a cap on the existing trash on the site at the northern end of town. The alternative is for the town to face substantial environmental fines and reduced trash disposal services. "The landfill issue has been so long in the pipeline, it would be a shame if the town didn't take the final step in the process," Selectman Judy Jacobi said. The landfill question tops the ballot of 10 issues to be decided by the voters, each of which would be an exclusion override of Proposition 2 ½, the annual limit of 2.5 percent that a city can raise property taxes…
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