RFL transfer station moving through government hoops

By Linda Bell
Correspondent

A new transfer station, originally scheduled to open in Red Feather Lakes in early summer, is being delayed by slow-moving paperwork, according to Stephen Gillette, director of Larimer County Department of Solid Waste.

He said the county struck a good partnership with the Colorado Division of Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service in locating the transfer station, but a document concluding the agreement is still outstanding from the Forest Service. The new facility will be near the old transfer station but on DOW property closer to Parvin Lake. Access will be on an old entrance road off County Road 74E across Forest Service land.

"As soon as we get their paperwork back," Gillette said, "it should only take the county 60 days or less to install the compactor on a cement pad, finish off the road, install electricity and erect fencing."

He said by using the existing road on national forest land, the county will save about $80,000 in road construction costs, in addition to the time it would take to build a new entry road.

Gillette said the transfer station will be modeled after the Wellington and Berthoud stations, which use trash compactors and only accept household trash. When the transfer station opens it will have the same schedule as the old one--every Saturday from May through October, then every first Saturday during the remaining months.