County to seek up to $152,000 to modify landfill flare skid, add monitoring devices

County staff presented a recommended task order (Task Order 2026‑05) on April 27 to modify the landfill flare skid and install a monitoring system to improve methane collection and reporting. "This modification will take the intake component ... and put it on the outlet side of the flare skid," explained County Administrator Darren King, describing how the change should let the flare skid and skid blower operate without competing for gas.

Staff described the procurement package as two parts: $14,500 for monitoring and oversight to Atlantic Coast Consulting (ACC) and roughly $137,000 to Aptum Environmental, LLC for the field work, for a combined not‑to‑exceed total of about $152,000. King said the work should take approximately six days and that funding is available in the solid waste enterprise fund.

Commissioners asked whether the project had been budgeted; staff said the work was not specifically budgeted in the current year but that enterprise fund reserves exist and staff will provide a reserve balance for the commission. The work also includes a monitoring device to better track gas quality and quantity and to meet EPD emissions reporting requirements.

No formal vote to execute the task order was recorded in the work session transcript; the commission discussed the item and asked staff to provide additional reserve/balance information and documentation.