PESCADITO

The family of the Honorable Carlos Y. Benavides Jr. has owned the Yugo Ranch for many generations. The property is located approximately 20 miles east of Laredo midway between US 59 and SH 359. The site will encompass 953 acres of which approximately 72 acres will be used as a landfill facility, and will accommodate a capacity of approximately 14.31 million cubic yards of materials... The facility consists of a site entrance with security fencing, a gatehouse, scales, an all-weather entrance road to the site, all-weather access roads, soil stockpiles, landfill gas monitoring and collection system, leachate collection system, groundwater monitoring system, liquid waste solidification units, recyclable materials recovery area, large items and white goods storage area, tire storage area, and citizens' convenience center, and the solid waste disposal area... PERC's future site is located in a remote area of Webb County 20 miles from Laredo. Over six years of thorough review proved the..