Ohio county engineer’s office enhances C&D recycling efforts

Muskingum County Commissioners opened bids for the purchase of screening equipment to enhance the county engineer’s offices’ abilities to recycling construction aggregate, a report by the Zanesville Time Recorder says. According county engineer’s office Administrative Deputy Matt Russell, the office is currently screening debris manually with a homemade bar screen system.

The equipment will be used to process various recycled debris from local construction sites, including county projects and contractor projects. The report says the old equipment is not as efficient and doesn’t allow for size versatility.

Before recycling, 40 percent of Muskingum County’s landfill space was made up of construction and demolition (C&D) debris. Now, according to the report, that has been reduced to 10 to 15 percent.

Four bids were submitted to the engineer’s office for review: A $192,948 bid from Cleveland-based AggCorp Equipment; a $178,790.91 bid from Ohio Cat of Zanesville; and two bids from Promac Processing Machinery, Trainer, Pennsylvania, for $186,500 and $150,525.

The bid called for screening equipment that segregates debris to various grades and disperses through a conveyor system, the report says. The equipment will be track mounted and transportable through a low boy trailer and will be fed by a loader or track with concrete, asphalt, rock, wood chips and fill material that will be repurposed for county projects. 

According to the report, a 50 percent community development grant through the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency allowed for the purchase of the equipment.