Solid Waste Management

Three Rivers PDD offers a variety of Solid Waste Management services to counties in Mississippi.  Click here for Solid Waste Links.

• Regional Solid Waste Management Authority - TRPDD is the administrative arm of the Three Rivers Regional Solid Waste Management Authority, organized as a solution to the pressing problem of solid waste disposal in the region, and is composed of counties and cities in the District.  The Authority owns and operates one regional landfill which all entities use.  A uniform tipping fee is charged for transporting from strategically located transfer stations to the regional landfill.  The Solid Waste Authority includes the counties of Calhoun, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, and Union. 

• Solid Waste Collection Design & Management - The District offers solid waste collection management services to counties including custom design and management of collection routes and systems, assistance in selecting and purchasing equipment, cost estimating and establishing fees for solid waste collection.

• Solid Waste Fee Billing - The District also offers solid waste fee billing and collection services to member counties.  The District has developed a public domain software package for fee billing which runs in native mode on IBM AS/400 minicomputers.  The collection phase of this service includes mail-in, local bank collection, and bank drafting options for clients.  Currently the counties served include Benton, Calhoun, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc, Tallahatchie, and Union.