Serving Montgomery County, Stewart County and Fort Campbell

Background

Montgomery County and Stewart County formed a Solid Waste Authority in 1974. This foresight has lead to one of the best-run facilities in the United States. Known world wide, Bi-County continues to operate an environmentally sound Class I Landfill, which meets or exceeds all of the Federal and State solid waste regulations. Bi-County was the first government run landfill in Tennessee to meet the new Subtitle D regulations for solid waste.

A seven member board governs the Bi-County Solid Waste Management System. Joe L. Creek is the current Chairman of the Board.

Bi-County employs three people who are certified to operate a landfill. The director is a certified manager of landfill operations and is designated as a landfill specialist.

Bi-County uses Harris Refuse Balers to compact the waste and save landfill space. A second Harris Baler was put into operation at Bi-County in November 1996 at a cost of nearly $600,000.00. No tax dollars were used to purchase this equipment. This equipment is also used in BI-County's recycle program which has increased from almost 10 tons per month to now over 1200 tons per month.

Bi-County works with Montgomery County School System providing educational programs and collecting recycles. Revenue collected from recycles and savings from the diverted waste, amounts to over $10,000.00 per year for the school system.

In May of 2006 Bi county openend the Construction and Demolition Landfill near exit 4 of Interstate 24, at the back gate of the UCAR plant. This site is for commercial use only.