Allied Waste Raises Century Garbage Rates Up To 40 Percent

April 22, 2008

Allied Waste has informed the Town of Century that garbage rates have been raised, but the mayor says he has the town’s attorney looking for a way to stop it.

Escambia County passed an ordinance in August 2007 that requires all waste generated in the county be taken to the county’s Perdido Landfill. Allied had been hauling Century’s garbage to the Allied managed Timberlands Landfill near Brewton, Alabama.

Mayor Freddie McCall told the council Monday night that since Allied is paying about $15 per ton more to dump at the Perdido Landfill, and they are passing that cost along as an increase for Century customers.

The town was to be billed $1.60 per customer more beginning April, while commercial customers will see a 40 percent increase in their bills. Town Clerk Dorothy Sims told the council that she had not yet received Allied’s April bill. Century bills residential customers for their waste service and in turn contracts with Allied Waste for the actual pickups. Commercial customers are billed directly.

“I don’t know where we are going to go on this,” McCall told the council. “But I’ve got the (town’s) lawyer on it.”

“If there’s a loophole in there,” McCall said, referring to the town’s franchise agreement with Allied, “we won’t be paying it.”

Allied filed suit against Escambia County in late March seeking to have the so called “flow control” ordinance overturned. The county, meanwhile, has a $1.1 million lawsuit pending in federal court against Allied, claiming that Allied underpaid tipping fees — the amount paid per ton to dump at the county’s landfill.

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Written by William Reynolds · Filed Under News