Nearly three years after a fire destroyed the Doral incinerator that processed about half of Miami-Dade’s trash, county commissioners want to pursue building a new one in an industrial area near the Broward County line.
Two teams have been competing to build a replacement facility, and both kept their hopes alive on Tuesday after commissioners voted to consider a combined proposal from the current rivals.
Each of the teams proposed building their incinerators in an area off Okeechobee Road, south of the Broward County line. That still puts a future incinerator a couple of miles from the Broward city of Miramar, but not as close as the idle Miami-Dade airport that the county once had picked as the preferred incinerator site.
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