Deschutes County commissioners indicated Wednesday they will choose the recommended “Moon Pit,” an aggregate mine east of Bend, as the location for the county’s next landfill. But they held ...

Committee members had not recommended a backup site in case the Moon Pit deal fell through. Now the project to build a new landfill is pressed for time. According to a 2023 timeline, the ...

Supervisors ultimately OK’d expansion for the landfill, which accepts construction and demolition debris. Its current borrow pit — used for mining dirt to cover the trash pile — will be ...