Nebraska Landfill Gas Project Could Net County $200K Annually
By Cody Boteler, Waste Dive.
Nebraska-based BioResource Development will begin collecting and cleaning gas from the 160-acre Sarpy County landfill by the end of the year, as reported by the Omaha World-Herald.
The contract was finalized in 2016, after Sarpy County put out a request for proposals to help mitigate the odor coming from the soon-to-be-capped landfill. BioResource Development is installing new wells with vacuums to collect gas, which will be sold to a local utility. Black Hills Energy, the utility that serves the county and will pay for the cleaned methane from the project, has already built a 3.5 mile pipeline to connect the landfill to its larger distribution pipeline.