114th Year, 51st Issue Thursday, July 31, 2003 Sparta, North Carolina

Landfill will be closed for tipping floor repair

By COBY LaRUE
Staff

The Alleghany County Transfer Facility on Dan Osborne Road will be temporarily closed for three days in August for ‘tipping room floor' repairs.

The facility will be closed from Aug. 14 until Aug. 16 and will reopen on its regular schedule on Monday, Aug. 17.

The floor of the ‘tipping room,' which is the area where local residents deposit their garbage, has worn down over time, County Manager Don Adams told the commissioners at a meeting on July 21. The floor, which is classified as a suspended floor, was made more difficult to repair by nature of its design. "We didn't want to do anything detrimental to its weight load (capacity),' Adams said.

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