Government & Politics
DPW Chief: A Grinding Machine at Transfer Station Could Save Darien $200K a Year
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Although Public Works Director Edward Gentile Jr. is still looking into the details, he says that buying machine to grind up brush, logs, grass and leaves at the town transfer station on Ledge Road might mean Darien wouldn’t not have to truck out that waste, which costs the town $200,000 a year. The machine itself costs about $670,000, and it would have to be run and maintained by town employees, but after several years, the expense of its purchase would be made up in savings, he said. “The simple math is there,” he told the Board of Selectmen Monday night at a budget review meeting. “Throw in maintenance, probably closer to four [years], a little over four. But those are numbers I’m working on now.”