Dive Summary:

• Officials in Cowlitz County, Washington are looking to purchase the Headquarters landfill from Weyerhaeuser Co. for $19 million.
• The county will convert the industrial waste site into a municipal landfill if the household waste permit is approved.
• The county's Environmental Health Division will issue or deny the permit in November if it is approved by the state's Department of Ecology. Commissioners may not overrule the decision.

From the article:

The final environmental impact study on the proposed purchase was issued late last month, setting in motion a series of deadlines in the new permit decision.

Officials say using the local landfill will be cheaper than the previous plan of shipping county waste to Eastern Washington once the Tennant Way Landfill closes later this year.

They also plan to accept some household and industrial trash from other areas — nothing has been detailed yet — and say that could be a revenue source for the county.