The four-laning of Highway 17 will bring long-sought residential expansion to a number of our communities,
including Horton Township.
However, with expansion comes additional pressures on community infrastructure.
Kevin Mooder is a planner with JP2G Consultants, and, in one way or another has been connected with the site of the present Township landfill site since the late 1980s.
At the municipal meeting January 7th, Mooder told elected representatives the present dump has about ten more years capacity remaining.
The consultant says any housing boom accompanying highway expansion could shorten the landfill’s life by twenty percent.
