Fee Based Service to Citizens, Businesses and Institutions of Sanpete County
https://www.sanpete.com/landfills.html
The landfill administration in an effort to make the landfill more equitable for all citizens is implementing the following changes to receive and pay for waste delivered to the White Hills and Chester Landfills
beginning February 10st 2025
Changes to Operation of Landfill:
- Eliminate Free 2,000 lb allowance per household per month. (This allowance was unfair because it was funded from the landfill fee paid by citizens through their cities.)
- The only Free items will be large sitting and sleeping furniture (Sofas, recliners, mattresses) (See Limited Free Below)
- All construction, demolition, yard clean up, trees and limbs and any household waste will be weighed and charged at the current rates $32.00 per ton.
- Any vehicle with 500 lbs or less weight of waste will be $8.00 base fee.
- Any pickup, trailer, or combination, dump trailers, trucks with more than 500 lbs will be charged the per ton rate based on the type of waste (See website, signs for fee schedule)
Personal Identification and Source of Waste will be required:
- Residential and Commercial Businesses and contractors from Sanpete will be required to show photo identification and provide address of source of waste.
- Out of County Contractors will be required to establish an account verifying that the source of the waste originated in Sanpete county or pay the Out of County rates.
Limited Free:
In an effort to be equitable for all citizens, the Sanpete Sanitary Landfill will accept the following items without cost at both White Hills and Chester Landfill to citizens of Sanpete County Cities and residences.
- White Hills Landfill will continue to accept large upholstered sitting and sleeping furniture (Sofas, chairs and mattresses) at no cost to the citizens. (carpet will be charged by weight)
- Chester Landfill will accept large sitting and sleeping furniture (sofas, mattresses) to be placed in dumpsters at no costs to the citizens in the North end of the county. Transportation to White Hills will be covered by the Landfill Coop. (Carpet will be accepted at Chester and charged by weight) (Absolutely no Household Waste)
Special Notes and Rules Re-established:
- All vehicles must weight in and weight out and pay a fee. Driver is responsible to position all vehicle and trailer tires on scales and off the rubber liners.
- All Drivers must show prove of Sanpete Residency and address of waste they intend to deposit in Sanpete Landfills
- ALL WASTE MUST BE SEPARATED AND PLACED IN DESIGNATED AREAS. AS DIRECTED BY SCALE HOUSE OPERATOR.
This includes: Construction and Demolition, metal, tires, appliances, yard waste, and household (White Hills only).
- If you bury household waste at Chester under any other type of waste you are in violation of our State DEQ operating permit and you could be fined for illegal dumping.
- Residency in Sanpete County does not entitle you to deliver waste to the landfill without paying a fee.
- The Scale House operators are implementing the rules established by the Landfill Administration. If you have questions, the scale operator will answer them respectfully. If you fail to follow directions or mistreat or threaten the landfill workers, you may be dismissed from the landfill without dumping.
- The Sanpete Landfill Coop, which administers the White Hills and Chester Landfills, is funded solely from the fees paid to dump waste. The Co-op contracts with P & L Enterprises to operate the landfill, including all landfill personnel.
- If you dump outside the landfill you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law.
Authorized: Sanpete Sanitary Landfill Administrator, Steve Anderson, 801-641-3598
If you have questions, you can ask through your cities, towns or county offices