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Manatee County commissioners, with Commissioner Joe McClash absent, unanimously approved changing the land development code and comprehensive plan to permit the company to build a private landfill on 208 acres off County Road 39, just south of the Hillsborough County line.
A land planner representing a farm near the site told commissioners the landfill would have a "severe impact" on Six L's Farm-Op Inc. but county leaders approved the code change despite the objection.
Waste Management officials had previously asked to build a Class III landfill near Port Manatee, but commissioners were opposed to that idea and asked the company to find property near the phosphate mines in eastern Manatee County.
While searching for a possible location in East Manatee, the owner of the County Road 39 site, William Manfull, was applying for a construction and debris landfill permit, so Waste Management negotiated to team up with him, said Carol McGuire, an attorney representing the firm.
Although bordering depleted phosphate mines to the north in Hillsborough County, the property is next to several single-family homes and large agricultural tracts, raising compatibility concerns during the first public hearing on the proposal.
The approval process requires a Florida Department of Community Affairs review. That agency had several concerns.
David Green, in charge of special projects in the Southeast for Waste Management, said the company held meetings with the community and worked out any concerns.
Three Duette-area property owners spoke in favor of the landfill.
As for compatibility with the adjacent farms and residences, the state was concerned about dust and debris blowing onto agricultural products, and the effects of waste odors.
The county's response was that regulations require all adverse impacts to surrounding property owners be properly mitigated.
Ethel Hammer, a land planner representing Six L's Farm-Op Inc., the agricultural operation just west and south of the proposed landfill site, told commissioners the county has not adequately addressed the DCA's objections.
The county has not provided protection to her client's farm, Hammer said, and the landfill will have an effect on the food safety rating of farm products.
"This will have a severe impact," she said, "and will place my client's agricultural operation in jeopardy."
The state's concerns involved potential stormwater runoff into Long Branch Creek, which runs through the property and into the Little Manatee River, a designated Florida Outstanding Waterway.
Leon Kotecki, the county's principal planner on the landfill project, said state, regional and county regulations are sufficient to require that all runoff be captured and removed from the property.
The landfill also will have a geo-synthetic liner, which is not required by the Florida Department of Environmental Protect, but the company agreed to install at the cost of $13 million, to capture all leaching.
Considering the county adequately responded to the state's concerns, Commissioner Ron Getman said the landfill was where the commission asked it be relocated and he supported the project.
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