the City of Suffolk owns garbage cans
the City of Suffolk owns garbage cans
In 1976, eight jurisdictions in southern Hampton Roads created the Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA). It evolved from the Southeastern Water Authority of Virginia. That authority had been created originally in 1973, but failed to gain traction as a regional solution for coordinating water supply efforts.
Two waste management approaches were adopted, incineration and landfill disposal. The US Navy built a steam generating plant in Portsmouth for the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The Southeastern Public Service Authority cosntructed a Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) plant next door to process municipal solid waste into fuel, which was carred by conveyor belt to the steam plant. Over 80% of the municipal solid waste in Virginia beach, Norfolk, portsmouth, and Chesapeake was burned to generate steam and energy.1
the Wheelabrator plant in Portsmouth was on the northern edge of the Norfolk Navy Shipyard
Source: ESRI, ArcGIS Online
the Southeastern Public Service Authority became the regional waste manager in 1976
Source: Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA), Our Story/a>