7/20/2007
Solid Waste: Host Agreement with Private Landfill/ Charge to Municipalities
County	Host Agreement with Private Landfill	Pay for Waste Disposal for Municipalities	Respondent
Abbeville
Aiken	No.  We are a member of Three Rivers.	Yes, but council is currently looking into our method for payment of solid waste.	Joan Donnelley, Deputy CAO
Allendale
Anderson	Yes, we have a host fee agreement with Anderson Regional Landfill. It is a privately owned landfill.	Yes	Greg Smith, Environmental Services Director
Bamberg	No	Residential generated waste  ----YES Commercial generated waste ----NO	Rose Dobson-Elliott, CAO
Barnwell	No	Yes	Pickens Williams, CAO
Beaufort	No	Yes	Tom Henrikson, Controller
Berkeley	No	Municipal waste disposal for residents of municipalities are paid by user fees.	Colin Martin, County Water & Sewer Authority
Calhoun	No.  We are a member of Three Rivers.	Yes	Lee Prickett, CAO
Charleston	No	Charleston County assesses an annual Solid Waste and Recycling Fee (based on how much waste they generate) to all property owners (including tax-exempts) that finances most of the cost of the operation (other revenue sources include sale of steam and electricity from our waste-to-energy facility, sale of recyclables from our Materials Recovery Facility, and tipping fees for our C&D landfill). So, in a sense the County pays for waste disposal for municipalities (because we do not send them a bill), but we do charge their residents as they pay a proportionate share (the SW&R Fee) based on how much waste they generate.	Keith Bustraan, Deputy CAO
Cherokee	No	No	Doris Pearson, Clerk to Council
Chester	Yes, we have an agreement with Waste Management to transfer our trash to Screaming Eagle in Elgin.	We do charge the Town of Great Falls and the City of Chester.	Sharon Wilson Bickett Chester County Recycling and Litter Control
Chesterfield
Clarendon	No	Yes	Bill Houser, CAO
Colleton	No	No	Doug Burns, CAO
Darlington
Dillon
Dorchester
Edgefield	No	Yes	John Pettigrew
Fairfield
Florence	No	No. However, Florence County does have a contract with a private vendor that does pay for transportation of household solid waste from the transfer station to a private landfill outside the County, plus the tipping fee at that landfill. Two municipalities in the County "piggy-backed" on this contract several years ago. Therefore, Florence County charges each of the households in these two municipalities a household fee to cover the cost of the municipalities' share of the contract.	Kevin Yokim, Finance Director
Georgetown	No	The City of Georgetown and Town of Andrews provide curbside refuse collection to residents twice a week. This waste is brought to the County landfill and charged $35 per ton. The Town of Pawleys Island does not provide this service and residents of the Town of Pawleys Island utilize the Pawleys Island Recycling Center.	Holley Causey, Environmental Services Division
Greenville	No	Technically yes.  Greenville County owns and operate the landfill and convenience centers. Currently the County does not charge tipping fees to municipalities. Taxes collected countywide pay for the capital and operational expenses related to disposal of waste originating from the municipalities.	Sandra Yudice, CAO's Office
Greenwood	No	No	Jim Kier, CAO
Hampton	No	Yes	Sabrena Graham, CAO
Horry
Jasper
Kershaw	No	People in the municipalities can use the service centers near the towns.  We just quit paying fees for Elgin, and Camden follows in December.	Bobby Boland, CAO
Lancaster	Yes, a master agreement with the private landfill in Lee County	We reimburse both the municipalities and local private haulers for transportation costs and tipping fees at the landfill for residential garbage only; no fees are paid for commercial garbage.  When I was with the City, Chap always said we were the only County that was this generous.  The reason the County started that years ago was due to the fact that in Lancaster our solid waste program is run with property tax dollars, not a special fee imposed in lieu of taxes where the fee could be targeted to only the unincorporated areas.	Steve Willis, CAO
Laurens	Laurens County utilizes a transfer station, owned by a private company. The county does have an agreement with that transfer station.	The county charges a household fee for the disposal of domestic waste generated within the county, both within the municipalities and within the unincorporated areas. The county pays for all of the household waste generated. However, the municipalities are billed for solid waste generated at businesses, yard waste, etc.	Ernie Segars, CAO
Lee
Lexington	No	Residential generated waste  ----YES Commercial generated waste ----NO	Katherine Hubbard, CAO
Marion	Marion County has a public/private C&D Landfill, and we have a small host fee.	No	Pete Rogers, CAO
Marlboro	No	No	Cecil Kimrey, CAO
McCormick
Newberry
Oconee
Orangeburg
Pickens
Richland
Saluda
Spartanburg	Spartanburg County has a host agreement with Waste Management who operates a private landfill called the Palmetto Landfill.  They pay the county $1.00 per ton for waste they dispose of at that landfill.	We do not pay for waste disposal for municipalities.  Each property owner pays a $47 per year solid waste fee with their property tax bill collected by the county that gives them the right to dispose of their solid waste in the county landfill.	Chris Story, Asst. CAO
Sumter	Not a host agreement - Our municipal solid waste is received at the private contractor’s (Waste Mgmt) transfer station, then hauled to their landfill in Richland County.	Yes	Bill Noonan, CAO
Union
Williamsburg
York
26 Respondents (57%)	NO: 19 cos (73%) Host Agreement w Pvt Landfill: 4 cos (1 co has pub/pvt C & D); Transfer Agreement w Pvt: 3 cos	YES:   13 cos (50%) NO:  13 cos (50%)