Savanna-La-Mar Mayor Welcomes $35M Waste Transfer Station

Savanna-la-Mar’s Mayor, Councillor Bertel Moore, has welcomed the proposed construction of a $35 million waste transfer station by the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), at Grange Hill, Westmoreland.

Speaking at a recent town hall meeting at Frome Technical High School in the community, where the announcement was made, Mr. Moore said the development is timely.

This, in light of longstanding “chronic” challenges the Westmoreland Parish Council, for which he is Chairman, has encountered in the efficient disposal of garbage collected across the parish.

“It’s been a number of years that we at the Council have been fighting and struggling with the situation, when it comes to the collection of garbage in the parish. The few trucks that we have, whenever they pick up garbage, they end up going to the Retirement landfill in St. James, under great difficulty and tremendous cost due to the number of trips made. This is why we fought so hard to have this transfer station established in the parish,” he indicated.

With the facility slated for construction over the next six months, Mr. Moore expressed satisfaction that the plans “have reached this far”, and pointed to the anticipated benefits for the parish, on the project’s completion.

“What we will eventually have will not be a dump, (but an arrangement) where garbage will be taken from across the parish to the transfer station and compacted in two large containers,” he outlined.

The Mayor said once the containers are filled to capacity, they will be transported to the retirement landfill for disposal, resulting in timelier and cost effective execution of this exercise.