So I think that’s an alarmist letter.”Ĭounty commissioners struck a similar note, including the one who represents the district where the Covanta incinerator caught fire. “We had put out that info previously in a number of ways to the commission and to the public and also that we are working on this issues. “Just to be clear, what was in his memo was really no surprise,” Levine Cava said. On Thursday, Levine Cava weighed in on Fernandez’s sudden resignation and the dire tone of his letter. The landfill expansions were necessary after a fire shut down the county’s Resources Recovery Facility waste-to-energy plant in February in Doral. “At this point, the County will have to issue a moratorium to stop all development in Miami-Dade County as of next year or initiate plans suggested to increase disposal capacity” Fernandez wrote in his five-page letter. In it, he warned that if landfill expansions are not considered the county could be in violation of a law that requires a capacity for five years of waste.

Fernandez, the former director of Miami-Dade County’s Department of Solid Waste Management, sent his resignation letter to Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava on Monday. MIAMI – Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and county commissioners pushed back on the county’s now-former trash chief’s ominous warning of an impending landfill crisis on his way out.

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