Hazardous Waste Disposal Facility Completed

Contractors have completed construction for Putnam County’s household hazardous waste disposal facility.

County Mayor Randy Porter said residents should be able to use the building later this month.

“We’re going through the punch list and installing the equipment that we had to put inside the building,” Porter said. “We’re hoping to have a grand opening of the building coming up sometime in January.”

The county chose to build the facility at the City of Cookeville’s brush site on West Jackson Street. Porter said it gives residents more opportunities to get rid of dangerous chemicals and other products.

“We were having to set up once a year at the fairgrounds for folks to be able to drop it off,” Porter said. “Storing paint and hazardous chemicals at your home is not good. This will allow them to drop that stuff off at the site at any time and not have to keep it at their homes.”

The county received a $480,000 non-matching state grant to construct the new facility.