A consultant hired by Miami-Dade County to assess the impact of a trash-to-energy plant on the air, environment and human health has submitted a report that concludes the facility – wherever it may go – will have minimal impacts on ecology and present low health risks to people in surrounding areas.
But it does find each site has plusses and minuses that the administration will have to weigh before recommending one of three sites to county commissioners, a decision County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says will come on Sept. 4.
The report comes as the county faces a potential looming solid waste disposal crisis, as landfills are filling up and the 40-year-old waste-to-energy (WTE) plant near Doral was destroyed by fire last year.
The consultant, Arcadis, was hired to examine the existing Doral site and two others – one in Medley, and the other called Airport West, on the northwest fringe of developable land just south …