MARSHALL — Fees for waste haulers taking trash to the Lyon County landfill will be going up in 2026, but not as much as county commissioners had anticipated.

“At the annual landfill meeting (Monday), the landfill advisory committee recommended that the County Board consider a $2 per ton increase to the municipal solid waste tipping fee at the landfill,” said Lyon County Environmental Administrator Roger Schroeder. “That would raise it from $49 per ton to $51 per ton.”

“I actually thought going into this, before we got their information, that it would be more than $2 for tipping fees. So I was pretty pleased with that amount,” said Commissioner Gary Crowley.

Schroeder said initially, there had been talk of a possible $4 tipping fee increase for 2026, and another $4 in 2027.

County commissioners voted to approve the fee increase, as well as increases to fees for bringing other types of waste to the landfill, like contaminated soil and demolition waste.

At Tuesday’s county board meeting, Schroeder presented commissioners with proposed fee increases for different types of waste brought to the landfill. The proposed tipping fee for municipal solid waste would go from $49 per ton to $51 per ton. Fees for construction and demolition waste would go from $36 a ton to $38 a ton, and fees for contaminated soil would go from $36.50 a ton to $37.50 a ton.

The fee for waste that the landfill can use as alternative daily cover would go from $19 per ton to $20 per ton. “Alternative daily cover” refers to certain kinds of materials that can be used to layer over other waste at the landfill, and keep trash from blowing around, Schroeder said.

Schroeder said the proposed increase amounts did not include additional taxes or surcharges waste haulers may have to pay at the landfill.

Schroeder said the fee increases for other kinds of waste were not part of the landfill advisory committee’s recommendations.

“Consultants were recommending that we also do a nominal increase” for contaminated soil, daily cover and demolition materials, he said.

Commissioners wouldn’t necessarily have to act on all the proposed fee increases at once, Schroeder said.

“I guess my thought being that municipal solid waste is by far the one that most people are interested in knowing what the price is going to be next year,” he said.

Commissioners voted to approve the proposed tipping fee increases for municipal solid waste, demolition materials, contaminated soil and alternative daily cover.