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Higher landfill rates needed to balance budget

RBC | Rio Blanco County Road and Bridge Director Dave Morlan, who also oversees the county’s landfill and landfill administrator Jeni Morlan spoke to the county commissioners Tuesday in a work session about the necessity of raising landfill fees.

“We’ve been running at a deficit for about three years,” Morlan said. Fees set in 2009 that had industrial waste subsidizing residential costs are no longer enough to keep the landfill from dipping into its fund…