Waste Plan Comment

Click here to view the Solid Waste Management Plan.

Wake County and county municipalities have completed the final draft of their state-required 10-Year Solid Waste Management Plan and are making the document available for public comment from April 19 – 27.  This second, three-year review and update of the 1997 document includes unincorporated Wake County and all of the municipalities except for the City of Raleigh, which developed its own plan.  The development of the County's 10-Year Plan is facilitated by County Solid Waste staff in service to the Wake County Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC) and its technical subcommittee. These organizations consist of local government officials, County citizens and waste industry representatives.

Subsequent to public comment, the plan must be approved by the individual town councils, returned to the SWAC for approval if changes need to be made, and finally presented to the Wake County Board of Commissioners for adoption before the end of this fiscal year (June 30, 2003).

"We are under a very tight schedule on this," said Solid Waste Director Jim Reynolds, "but obtaining public comment is a priority, so we are making accessibility to the plan a priority, as well."

The Wake County Solid Waste Management 10-Year Plan can be viewed beginning Saturday, April 19, at the following locations:

• Town Halls
• Chambers of Commerce
• Eva H. Perry Library – Apex
• Cary Public Library – Cary
• Fuquay-Varina Library – Fuquay-Varina
• Southeast Regional Library – Garner
• East Regional Library – Knightdale
• Cameron Village Regional Library – Raleigh
• North Regional Library – Raleigh
• Wendell Branch Library – Wendell
• Wake Forest Branch Library – Wake Forest
• Zebulon Branch Library – Zebulon

Comments may be faxed to (919) 856-6233 (ATTN: Lowell Shaw), e-mailed to lshaw@co.wake.nc.us, or sent to Lowell Shaw, Wake County Solid Waste Management Division, P.O. Box 550, Raleigh, NC 27602 (postmarked no later than April 25, 2003).