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Preston County Litter Control Officer Jay Sowers says this mobile home on Company House Road was destroyed with a bulldozer. If the debris is not removed, the person involved may face a fine of up to $25,000, he said.
Preston County Litter Control Officer Jay Sowers says this mobile home on Company House Road was destroyed with a bulldozer. If the debris is not removed, the person involved may face a fine of up to $25,000, he said.
KINGWOOD — A 42,000-square-foot indoor waste tire processing facility center is being planned for Preston County, the Solid Waste Authority was told Wednesday.
Business partners Tim Davis and Michael Hovatter told the SWA of their intent to construct the recycling center on four acres in the industrial park at Reedsville. The processes they will be using will result in minimal waste, Davis said.
“Our process will recycle between 95 and 98% of scrap tires,” Davis said.
The project is still in the preliminary stages, both financially and in permitting, according to Davis. They are requesting a letter from the authority acknowledging that the facility will not be competing with the SWA, nor will it add additional waste into landfills above what other businesses of a similar size dispose of.
Traditional tire facilities have outside piles, some processes are completed outside, and runoff ponds for groundwater are required, he said. Putting everything — the work and storage — inside a building should alleviate environmental issues commonly associated with tire processing.
“The tires come in; they’re processed into one of six different products we have, and then they leave,” Davis said. “Out of the 2,200 tons of scrap tires that we plan on processing each month, we’re going to produce roughly 100 tons of waste that will go to the landfill.”
Davis and Hovatter hope to be operating the facility in the first quarter of 2023, employing at least a dozen people.
Proprietary processes will be used to create six products, according to Davis. He said there are currently eight similar facilities in the United States, the closest one being in Michigan.
One of those products will be a material that can be used in car bumpers, composite flooring, floor tiles and asphalt products, Davis said.
SWA member Hoy Wiles asked about extracting the steel that’s in the tires, and what would become of it.
There are processes to remove the steel from each tire, and what is produced resembles steel wool pads soaked in deck stain, Davis replied, and there is no steel left in the rubber afterward. The steel also is recyclable, and the facility may pull up to 600 pounds of steel out of the tires each day, he added.
SWA Chairman Don Smith said as long as the business isn’t keeping material outside, “the only thing we have to do is say we have no problem with it.”
Davis said that has been taken into account, and the building plans have been redone to allow easy loading and unloading of trucks inside.
Smith suggested that having the recycling operation contained entirely inside a building would mean fewer hoops to jump through in the permitting process. Davis, however, said that because they are forming a tire processing facility, the environmental issues still need to be addressed — even if they don’t apply to the local project.
Smith said he will draft the memo Davis and Hovatter require, and the SWA can take a vote on it at the next meeting.
— Litter Control Officer Jay Sowers reported that he expects to issue a citation and the largest fine ever for a trailer on Company House Road.
He said the trailer had been part of a civil dispute, and the man who was told to remove the trailer from the property instead destroyed the building with a bulldozer. The wreckage of the furnished trailer has been sitting there with debris and items blowing everywhere, he said.
“The judge called me and said, ‘You need to go to Company House Road and give this guy the ticket,’” Sowers said. “Well, that ticket is going to be very, very high. Probably going to be one of the highest ones — close to $25,000 — that I’ve ever written.”
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