LANDFILL CONTRACT.(St. Croix contracts with Landfill Technologies for garbage services )(Brief Article)

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The Government has signed a contract with Landfill Technologies, the Puerto Rico firm that will bail and wrap St. Croix's garbage so that Anguilla Landfill can be closed, reports The Virgin Islands Daily News (Oct. 30, 2002). But that contract, signed Oct. 17, was only to conduct studies required by the Federal Aviation Administration on birds and pests at the landfill - where the facility will be located - and how best to keep them out, said Public Works Commissioner Wayne Callwood. The big contract - the pact under which Landfill Technologies will erect a facility to bail and wrap the 300 tons of garbage St. Croix produces each day - is not likely to go to the Senate for a vote until early December, Callwood said. He said it would take that long to complete the...