Shawnee County doesn’t necessarily ban Rolling Meadows Landfill from letting its trash rise higher than the surrounding hills, but it does impose a height restriction on the facility, county officials say.
Rolling Meadows is prohibited from exceeding an elevation of 1,164 feet above sea level, deputy county counselor Jonathan Brzon said this past week.
County officials didn’t know the landfill’s current elevation but said it was 1,136 feet in 2002, the year then-county counselor Rich Eckert said Rolling Meadows officials considered the landfill to be within the rules so long as it did not exceed the elevation of “adjacent land.”
Brzon provided information in response to a question posed by a Topeka Capital-Journal reader, who asked to remain anonymous, as part of a reader engagement project linked to the program ”#TopCity What? You ask. We answer.”
The reader asked, “When the Rolling Meadows Landfill was approved, was there any condition that it never exceed the height of surrounding hills?”
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