Nearby, train cars filled with Seattle's garbage ... cities send an estimated 9,000 tons a day to Gilliam County's Columbia Ridge Landfill, and it arrives at a place happy to have it.

Columbia Ridge Landfill opened in 1990, and has gone on to become the county’s largest employer. “I think it’s a really good example of a symbiotic relationship between two communities that ...

Oregon News Tough call to expand landfill along fragile Yamhill River Published: Oct. 29, 2008, 9:24 p.m. By Len Reed | lreed@oregonian.com ...

Some 35,000 tons of mostly household trash arrive here weekly by train from ... the trash arriving at Columbia Ridge has ended up buried. On the southwest side of the landfill, bus-sized ...

The Columbia Ridge Landfill was originally born out of necessity ... it isn’t the only one - garbage is also hauled in by train from Seattle. Host fees are paid to Gilliam County per ton ...

ARLINGTON, Ore. (AP) — The operator of the Columbia Ridge Landfill in Arlington, Ore., plans to convert garbage into clean fuel. S4 Energy Solutions said Wednesday that a plasma gasification ...