Completed in 2020, Great West worked together with Sanders County, Montana to secure nearly a $5 million RD loan to build a new waste transfer station. The County’s old transfer station was constructed in the early 1990’s on leased property. The lease was expiring, and the County needed to construct a new facility. The old transfer station also relied on an old process of baling waste, which was very operations and maintenance intensive. The newly completed top load transfer station and maintenance building includes a 4-bay roll-off container site, metal and green waste material pits, and new site access roads.  The project also included safety improvements to rural drop off sites, and the purchase of backhoes for load consolidation at rural container site.

More recently, Great West assisted Bonner County, Idaho with an $8.7 million dollar RD Loan. USDA RD funds are typically applied to water and wastewater projects in Idaho. This RD loan for Bonner County was the first of its kind in Idaho for solid waste projects. Of the 13 solid waste collection sites around Bonner County, four of them are planned for improvements with this funding with the majority of the improvements to occur at the central transfer station in Colburn. The site will receive a complete make-over with remodeling the existing waste transfer building, adding a larger and more modern waste transfer building, adding a household hazardous waste facility to properly collect and process these types of wastes in the County, adding an automated commercial scale to more closely track where wastes are being generated in the County, and rerouting traffic at the site to be more efficient and safer.

To find out more about funding alternatives for solid waste projects, contact us today. Our full-time grant and funding administration staff can help you navigate the complexities of these programs and secure money for your critical solid waste infrastructure.