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In addition, Waste Connections runs landfills for waste disposal (82 solid waste landfills as of September 2019). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In Q3 2017, 67% of revenue was from solid waste collection, 21% from solid waste disposal and transfer, 4% from recycling, 5% from its oil industry waste operations, and 3% from other sources.
The North Transfer Station is located on a 5-acre (2.0 ha) site in southern Wallingford near Gas Works Park and the Burke-Gilman Trail on the north side of Lake Union. [ 30 ] [ 33 ] The sloped campus includes a main building for waste processing, an administration office, and a separate facility for reuse and recycling.
A transfer station, or resource recovery centre, is a building or processing site for the temporary deposition, consolidation and aggregation of waste. [1] [2] Transfer stations vary significantly in size and function. Some transfer stations allow residents and businesses to drop off small loads of waste and recycling, and may perform some ...
It is operated by the King County Solid Waste Division and encompasses 920 acres (1.44 sq mi; 3.7 km 2) of space near State Route 169. The landfill opened in 1963 and is the county's only active waste facility, serving an estimated 1.4 million people in King County—excluding the cities of Seattle and Milton.
Vancouver Water Station#1 Contamination: Clark: Groundwater contamination by PCE from an unknown source. Wells supply up to 20 million gallons of drinking water per day to Vancouver, Washington and Clark County, which is treated to remove PCE before supply. [79] June 23, 1993: May 31, 1994
The Delta landfill is a landfill south of Vancouver B.C. Vancouver has owned and operated the Vancouver Landfill in Delta since 1966. It's now used by Vancouver, Delta, B.C., Richmond, White Rock, the University Endowment Lands and portions of South Surrey—or about 40 per cent of the population of the region. [1]
As of June 2010 the station is operated by two Falmouth Department of Public Works employees. [1] According to an April 2010 commission report, the UCRTS takes in 36,519 tons of municipal waste annually. [2] The total cost to operate the station is about $300,000 annually. [1]
The Port of Vancouver USA is the furthest-inland deep-water port along the Columbia River, located in Vancouver, Washington and founded in 1912. [3] [4] [5] The port contains five terminals along with two of the largest mobile harbor cranes in North America. [6] The port is a government agency governed by three locally elected commissioners.