Update: Trustees Approve Biosolid Storage, Set ERU Public Hearing

**Updated 8:45 p.m.

Caledonia trustees Monday voted 6-1 to allow local businessman to build a bio-solid storage facility on his land. Trustee Jim Dobbs was the only dissenting vote.

At the beginning of the meeting, Village President Bob Bradley announced that public comment would only be taken on subjects not on the agenda, and that residents would not be allowed to participate in the discussion with trustees.

"We've heard what you had to say at a public meeting and at the last board meeting," he said. "The board needs to get some work done tonight."

Dan Hintz, owner of South Hills Country Club and several hundred acres in the immediate vicinity, will build a 72' x 420' structure to store bio-solids from the Racine Wastewater plant for no more than 180 days at a time.

The utility contracts with Synagro Technologies for storage, and that company has been leasing space in Oak Creek. Because that property has been sold for development, Synagro needs another site so company officials contacted Hintz about building a storage unit.

Trustees postponed a vote until Monday so board members could get more up-to-speed and Hintz could host information meetings at South Hills.

Residents who live on Golf Road and Highway V are opposed to the project because they worry about safety on Golf Road and the potential for harming their wells. State Department of Natural Resources, though, dictates that bio-solids can only be stored no less than 1,000 feet from another building and 2,000 feet from the nearest well.

At the board meeting, Hintz told trustees that he talked with Mount Pleasant about bringing the trucks to his maintenance road instead of off of Golf. That part of his property is in Mount Pleasant, and Hintz said he only needs to fill out a permit and pay a $25 fee to that village to be in compliance there.

The Caledonia Village Board also scheduled at 6 p.m. Oct. 14 a statutorily required public hearing on instituting a storm water management fee for all property owners in the village. Charging the fee would take storm sewer off the tax levy.