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Landfill Fire Expert Says Iowa City Landfill Fire is About as Bad as it Gets: Iowa City Daily News Links, May 29
A quick rundown of today's local news.
The beginning of this week feels like late summer and I was thinking of packing away my longsleeve shirts. Now the end of it looks like it will feel like mid Spring. Oh Iowa weather, I hope you never change. And by that I mean, keep changing constantly.
On to the links!
From this Site
The Iowa City School District is taking precautions to smoke from the still smouldering landfill fire. The city of Iowa City released a revised FAQ yesterday that mentioned the city estimates the landfill fire has created between $4 and $6 million in damages.
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An Iowa City man after his vehicle left the road near Solon.
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From Other Sites
Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette spoke with an expert on landfill fires who said that Iowa City's fire is unusually large and difficult to deal with. He also ranks the Landfill fire as a "three or four" on his landfill fire scale that tops out at four.
In the silver lining department, the Iowa City Landfill fire is bad enough that it may result in a change to landfill policy in the state to prevent a similar incident from happening elsewhere.
Switching to the good for the environment department, James Q. Lynch of the Gazette writes that new tax credits should help Iowans afford installing solar cells in their homes and businesses.
Tara Bannow of the Iowa City Press-Citizen writes about upcoming updates to the Iowa City Public Library.
Bannow also has a profile of Travis Weipert, Democratic candidate for Johnson County Auditor.
Mitchell Schmidt of the Press-Citizen writes that electronic cars are becoming more popular in the area.
Schmidt also writes that Tate's graduating class is set to almost double this year.
Josh O'Leary of the Press-Citizen writes that the Senior Center could see a fee hike if an upcoming proposal is approved.
Daily Links Excerpt of the Day
The fire at Iowa City’s landfill may bring changes at other landfills in the state.
“We’re probably going to ask these questions,” said Alex Moon, supervisor of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, solid waste program. “How big is the cell, do you really want to leave that much exposed.”
The Iowa City fire, smoldering through its fourth day, apparently started when burning material in a load of waste dumped Friday afternoon ignited the “drainage layer” of chipped tires, which continues to burn.
“If (the chipped tires) had been covered with garbage this would have been far more unlikely,” Moon said.
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