Jackson Landfill reopens with stipulations some contractors find costly
BYRAM, Miss. (WLBT) -Eight months after the Jackson Landfill was scheduled to reopen, some contractors still can’t take their debris to the site. Debris haulers are frustrated the dump isn’t operating as it used to.
The owners of Bandit Property Cleanout have been waiting for over a year for the gates at the Jackson Landfill to reopen to contractors.
“They said we couldn’t dump it,” said company co-owner Brenner Hobbs. “We had to hand unload our trailer”.
Monday while other trucks went into the landfill, Hobbs and Co-owner Kenneth Boyer’s trailer left the facility.
“Yes they’ve done some pretty good renovations to the place, but now they’re telling businesses like me that we have to hand unload a dump trailer,” said Hobbs. “Obviously for time purposes that’s just not gonna be good for our business”.
“They at least let us back in. It takes about an hour sometimes three hours to load those trailers up,” said Boyer. “So if I were to come here and unload that’s one to three hours I have to unload that trailer back in here”.
Inside the trailer were several thousand pounds of trees and limbs. The Jackson based business talked with us last September about the closure. At the time the City of Jackson said a cell needed to be replaced, which was scheduled for completion by January.
Other trucks entered, but it is unclear if they unloaded their trailers by hand. The contractors said they were not told why they had to manually unload their trailer. Meanwhile they say the business faces escalating fuel costs.
“This is costing us at least $100.00 every single time we have to come to the dump. It’s time, money, effort,” added Boyer.
The City and Solid Waste have been contacted repeatedly for an update on the landfill’s reopening and requirements. No one has responded to questions about the facility.
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