Solid waste district back on the table

A solid waste district that spans the whole of Crook County may be back on the table, if Mayor Dick Claar of Moorcroft is successful in his efforts to secure support. Claar attended last week’s meeting of the Sundance City Council to explain the steps he is planning to take.

Claar would like to see all four towns and the county come together to create a solid waste district that would take on the burden of trash collection, using Moorcroft’s landfill as a dumping site. This idea was first discussed several years ago, when the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) began to mandate th...