At Monday’s council meeting, borough solicitor Robert Pfannebecker said that documents concerning the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA)’s interactions concerning the sale of the Harrisburg solid waste disposal plant were “extremely complex.”

Curiously, that word, “complex”, is used in the narrative paragraph at the company’s Website:

“Welcome to LCSWMA’s Susquehanna Resource Management Complex

Located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna Resource Management Complex (SRMC), previously known as the Harrisburg Resource Recovery Facility, is home to the nation’s first waste-to-energy (WTE) facility. Once LCSWMA acquires the SRMC later this year, it will become part of a larger Integrated System that will serve the solid waste management needs of both Dauphin County and Lancaster County. This regionalized Integrated System will offer a multi-step approach to recycling, trash processing and final disposal of waste; with the SRMC playing an important role in this process, including generating renewable energy (electricity) from the combustion of waste.

Also at the Website: Intergovernmental Power Purchase and Sale Agreement: Columbia Borough will sell the electric generated by the SRMC to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Department of General Services. And it looks like this in the simplified narrative:

You can read the more complex agreement in full here.