Regional Authority of Carlton Trail(REACT) feels they have provided Rural Municipality of LeRoy landowners enough reassurance to justify a new state of the art landfill on an acre of land within the municipality.

Tuesday night the municipal waste authority detailed the plans of the proposed facility including how they would contain litter among other concerns.

General Manager Wendy Yaworski recently toured a number of sites in Alberta for guidelines.

"Using the waste transfer building, the high fences, closing the site if there is high winds, the sites are very, very clean and that's what we're committed to doing."

During two prior meetings between the parties, litter control, rodents, and ground contamination were large concerns for neighbouring land owners, Tuesday night's gathering was much more subdued.

Reeve Jerry McGrath says REACT decision makers have definitely sorted the trash since two early April presentations.

"It's a state of the art landfill, it has to be state of the art delivery and everything in it. I think we saw tonight that it's definitely changed from the first meeting. I think our council had a number of suggestions, they put them in this plan, I am happy with that."

The proposed new site is located about 20 kilometres west and seven kilometres north of the Town of LeRoy.

The Ministry of Environment has told REACT the Humboldt site will remain as a landfill and be turned into a transfer site.

"We know that we have to have what we call a transfer station there, the citizens of Humboldt will be able to do exactly what they are doing," explained Yaworski.

RM council meets next Tuesday, the site will be on the agenda. McGrath says if it does get approved, it won't be catch free.

"We will be tying some sort of conditions to this permit and some will be exactly what you said. Some monitoring, reporting back to the RM's, we will want some protocol in this whole system as it goes forward."

"This new site is going to be extremely expensive to put together," Yaworski continued. "The days are gone where you can only do things half-fast. The member municipalities know that, the board of directors know that."

The Ministry of Environment would like REACT to move out of the Humboldt site "as soon as possible," Yaworski hopes they can begin construction somewhere within the year.

You can hear more from Yaworski and McGrath below in their interview with Bolt FM's Clark Stork.