Dive summary:

• The Board of Supervisors in Columbia County, New York have approved a measure to give the New Lebanon landfill $625,000 to help the costs of monitoring the closed landfill.
• The money would start in increments of $125,000 in 2016; proper monitoring of the closed landfill is expected to cost approximately $22,000 a year over the next 30 years.

From the article:

Board of Supervisors Chairman Patrick Grattan said that the landfill should be closed, though he expressed concern about the spending at a time when department heads are being asked to cut their own spending.
The agreement was struck following years of negotiating between the county and the town over what the county’s responsibility was in closing the landfill. The county helped most towns close their landfills over 30 years ago, but the New Lebanon site was different. Germantown Supervisor Roy Brown said the New Lebanon landfill was never used by the county.
New Lebanon Supervisor Michael Benson said that this week’s decision was “good government.” ....