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Town of Weston, CT
Fairfield County
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No person or vehicle shall be admitted to the landfill without first displaying a valid license or permit for admission issued by the Selectmen.
No material originating outside of the Town will be accepted at the landfill.
A. 
The vehicle entrance to the landfill will be closed by a fence and gate, and said gate will be open only:
(1) 
When an authorized Town employee is on the premises.
(2) 
Between such hours as determined by the Selectmen, such hours to be posted at the entrance to the landfill site.
B. 
The landfill will be open on Saturday for residents only, and no commercial vehicles will be allowed to use the facility, except that the First Selectman or his agent may upon four hours' notice permit the landfill to be open to commercial vehicles on Saturdays.
C. 
The landfill will be closed on all Sundays and certain holidays designated by the Board of Selectmen, except in times of emergency declared to be such by a majority of the Selectmen.
D. 
Any unauthorized person who enters or otherwise causes entry of a vehicle or other persons at the landfill in violation of any provision of these regulations will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
The landfill will be operated in conformity with the applicable regulations of the State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Licensed collectors or their agents and residents must, when at the landfill, obey the directions of the operator, or his assistants, in unloading their vehicles or otherwise using the premises.
Penalties will be assessed against collectors, commercial operators or individual householders for violations of the regulations, as described in § 164-5.
Separate sites will be maintained at the landfill for the disposal of specified categories of material.
The following items will be accepted at the site and will be prepared and sorted by the individual into the following categories:
A. 
Stumps will be cut flush with the ground prior to dumping.
B. 
Green brush delivered by residents will be bundled and tied with twine or rope with the cut ends facing in the same direction and must be free of other refuse.
C. 
Green brush from commercial operators or delivered by licensed collectors must be in chipped form.
D. 
Dead brush and leaves may be mixed; the maximum length of any item of brush shall be 36 inches.
E. 
Logs will be cut into ten-foot lengths or less and stacked when dumped.
F. 
Rocks, boulders, and clean fill.
G. 
Building and construction materials.
H. 
Products of building demolition.
I. 
Scrap metal and metal appliances.
J. 
Bulky items, such as furniture, rugs, and similar nonmetallic items.
K. 
Papers and magazines stacked and tied four ways into bundles no higher than 12 inches.
L. 
Glass bottles.
M. 
Tires.
Disposal of contaminating liquids is not permitted at the landfill.
A. 
The following item(s) will not be accepted at the site: hazardous wastes or sludge from septic systems.
B. 
The Board of Selectmen hereby reserve the right to refuse to accept at the landfill site any of the items defined in § 164-1 at any time, without notice, if it is deemed inadvisable, dangerous or unhealthy to deposit such materials, such determination to be made by the Board of Selectmen, Aspetuck Valley Health District or State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Residents may dispose of household garbage at the site. All household garbage deposited by residents will be contained in plastic bags whose openings are tied.
The attendant at the site will personally inspect and approve each load of material before it is removed from the vehicle. Vehicles containing material not conforming to the above regulations will not be allowed access to the site.