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.

View of the green energy plant at Columbia Ridge Landfill in Gilliam County. This facility harnesses landfill gas to generate 12.8 megawatts of renewable electricity. The landfill is also ...

I believe there is a very good alternative to the expansions of Coffin Butte Landfill ... to create a “garbage train” from Millersburg to Columbia Ridge, 150 miles away.

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 ...

(AP) - Waste Management is doubling capacity at its landfill gas power plant south of Arlington, generating more energy for homes and businesses 260 miles away in Seattle. The Columbia Ridge ...