Dive Brief:

• On May 6, City Council in Port Angeles, Washington seeks to award a bid worth up to $13 million for landfill work needed at the town's municipal landfill.
• The shuttered Port Angeles City landfill is in need of some repairs, including erosion prevention work on a seawall and waste relocation to prevent waterway contamination.
• The work will be funded through the Department of Ecology and by municipal bonds. The money is expected to be recouped through tipping fees via the Port Angeles transfer station.

Dive Insight:

The project is expected to be completed by the end of the summer or early fall. Five companies submitted bids for this contract. According to Peninsula Daily News, in 2015, tipping fees could be raised by almost 12% per ton to help repay the funds.