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Mistake Costs Wicomico County $87,000

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The Wicomico County Council wants to know why a commercial hauler got a 50 percent price break at the county landfill resulting in a loss over $87-thousand.

Assistant Director of Administration Weston Young asked for a waiver on the uncollected tipping fees from the hauler and for a way so that it would not happen again.

The Salisbury Daily Times reports that the council did consider a price break for the construction and demolition waste but never took final action.

The paper reports that the regular price is $60 a ton while the reduced price was $30 a ton.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.