Castle Country Radio had the opportunity to sit down with Carbon County Commissioner Larry Jensen to discuss upcoming projects taking place within the county. He was eager to share an update on the solar project, plus discuss the Intermountain Electronics construction and share information on free access to the landfill for community clean-up.
The solar field that is located in Wellington is up and almost ready for operation. “So they’ve been working on it for about a year, it’s almost complete. They’re expecting to begin to sell power to PacifiCorp, I think next month, so it’s real close to being done. The significant part for us in the county is that once they’ve completed that it goes on the tax roll and the amount of tax money that the county will receive is a pretty good chunk of money, not only for the county but the school district,” said Commissioner Jensen. It looks like the county will end up with about $70,000.00 this year and the school district would receive an additional $151,000.00. The funds should generate in November when taxes are due and it will show as a completed project.
As far as the expansion on Intermountain Electronics (IE) they are moving along quite nicely as Commissioner Jensen explains, “Intermountain Electronics began construction of their main new production facility, factory floor they call it. The building is about 240,000 square foot building when it’s finished. They’re unable to build the whole thing right now because they need one more parcel of property that would help have the room for the whole thing. But they are pouring footers and getting ready to do the walls of this new factory. You’ll start seeing, probably fairly soon, some steel walls going up and things to get it up above ground, so you can see what’s going on.” The projection two years ago stated that the expansion would bring in several jobs to the area. Since that time IE has hired 60 individuals and are looking forward to hiring more qualified applicants once the expansion is completed.
Springtime always means spring cleanup and the county has made arrangements with the landfill to waive fees for a certain amount of time. “Price City use to go around and pick materials up off the curb, that folks set out and they would bring it into the landfill and we would not charge Price City for bringing those materials in. But we made a decision that we would no longer accept those materials from the city that they were bringing in for free, and go to a more two-week period where anyone in the county can bring things from their home and yards to the landfill and there will be no charge,” said Commissioner Jensen. The county will waive the landfill fee from March 26 through April 9.