Public agency muscles into C&D market.* The Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA SPSA Scottish Police Services Authority SPSA Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation SPSA Spotted Sandpiper (bird species Actitis macularia) SPSA Spanish Peaks Staff Association (Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch) ), a public agency that handles most waste disposal and recycling in Virginia Beach Virginia Beach, resort city (1990 pop. 393,069), independent and in no county, SE Va., on the Atlantic coast; inc. 1906. In 1963, Princess Anne co. and the former small town of Virginia Beach were merged, giving the present city an area of 302 sq mi (782 sq km). , Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Franklin, Isle of Wight Noun 1. Isle of Wight - an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel Wight county - (United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government; "the county has a population of 12,345 people" County and Southampton County, Va., has announced that it will accept construction and demolition debris in its landfill, reports the Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the paper, the decision came nearly a month after private landfill owner John C. Holland Jr. disclosed that the agency had been accepting C&D material for close to a year under several private contracts never publicly approved. The contracts with four local waste companies included a disposal fee of $6.50 per cubic yard of C&D material, the Virginian-Pilot reports. The SPSA board of directors has voted to extend that fee to anyone wanting to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose industrial C&D debris. Holland tells the paper that the fee is below market prices and will undercut undercut, n 1. the portion of a tooth that lies between its height of contour and the gingivae, only if that portion is of less circumference than the height of contour. 2. competition from private companies, but SPSA officials say the price is on par with what private construction debris landfills charge, according to the Virginian-Pilot. Holland has threatened to take SPSA to court in order to fight the agency's decision, the paper reports. John Hadfield, SPSA's executive director, tells the Virginian-Pilot that it was a mistake not to seek public approval before signing the first four contracts. He adds that the board's decision "sets a fair rate that everyone can use." Hadfield says SPSA's move into the C&D market is only a temporary one, designed to use open space at the regional landfill, according to the newspaper. |
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