New RFL trash transfer station slowly evolving

By Linda Bell
Correspondent

The good news, according to Ann Lujan, project manager with Larimer County Solid Waste, is the new transfer station in Red Feather Lakes should be open by spring 2006.

The not-so-good news is an access permit for the road into the station is still under review by the U.S. Forest Service and the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

Lujan said the DOW lease site near Parvin Lake was approved by the county planning commission in early November on the condition legal access is agreed upon by the county and the DOW. Two alternative routes into the transfer station are being considered, she said.

One alternative is through the main gate into the parking lot at Parvin Lake, she said, which is a historical point of entry. "A road to the transfer station using that route might not be in keeping with the historic nature of the area and use by anglers," she added.

The other alternative, she said, is to use part of the old access road located on Forest Service land that serviced the previous site closed down by the Forest Service in 2004. An imposing outcrop of boulders separates the two alternatives. Lujan said the county would pay a yearly access fee for the road to either government entity that granted road access.

Lujan said the entire project would cost about $100,000 to complete. "The need for a transfer station in the area is quite obvious," she noted.