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Sioux County Landfill Scrapped; New Locations Being Sought in Scotts Bluff County

Rural Radio Network · last updated
March 5th, 2026 | Ryan Murphy

The topic of finding a new landfill site to serve the Twin Cities came up again during Monday’s Scottsbluff City Council meeting.

City Manager Kevin Spencer says engineers are removing the monitoring wells from the formerly proposed Laucomer site in Sioux County, essentially ending any hopes of that site being the new landfills home.

He says they do have an upcoming meeting with the firm HDR that may have leads on the next possible property sites.

“It sounds like they have some properties identified,” said Spencer. “We’ve asked them to do a start in five miles, take a look. Grow out five more miles, take a look. Pat (Heath) and I will meet with Mark Harris on Wednesday. We just want to be very transparent with the commissioners as to what we’re going to do and what our process is going to be.”

The Gering Landfill is expected to reach capacity by the end of the year.

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