The Batavia City Council on Monday selected the aldermen who will get first crack at ruling on plans to build a waste transfer station in the city.
Onyx Waste Services Midwest Inc. has filed an application to build a facility that would receive up to 1,000 tons of trash per day and prepare it for shipment to landfills outside Kane County, said Mayor Jeff Schielke. Company officials propose placing the station on 5 acres at 766 Hunter Drive in the Batavia Industrial Park, just south of Fabyan Parkway on the city’s far east side.
Members of the City Services Committee were named to the new Pollution Control Facility Committee to evaluate the application, hold public hearings and make recommendations to the full council.
Those hearings probably will take place in April, Schielke said.
The committee includes 1st Ward Ald. Jodie Wollnik, 2nd Ward Ald. Charles Beckman, 3rd Ward Ald. Cathy Barnard, 4th Ward Ald. James Volk, 5th Ward Ald. Eldon Frydendall, 6th Ward Ald. Mary McCarter and 7th Ward Ald. Nancy Vance.
Batavia officials had already started planning to build a waste transfer station to ensure residents’ trash can be readily disposed of even after Settler’s Hill landfill in Geneva closes in 2006.
