Yates County's prior solid-waste plan expired around 2000. A draft replacement was presented in 2026. As of the records reviewed for this page, the plan remains in draft status. This page tracks what the draft says and where approval stands.
This page tracks the status of Yates County's Local Solid Waste Management Plan (LSWMP): what the draft says, how it came to exist, and where it stands in the approval process. It is a tracker, not the official plan.
The official draft, the county's recycling rules, and the state's review remain with the agencies that created them. Where this page states a status, it reflects the public records reviewed as of the date shown at the bottom of the page.
New York requires every county to maintain a Local Solid Waste Management Plan. Yates County's prior plan expired around 2000. The replacement now under review is a draft — meaning the county has gone roughly a quarter century without a current, adopted plan to guide where its waste goes.
An LSWMP is the document a county uses to plan disposal, recycling, and diversion over a ten-year horizon. New York's framework treats it as the foundation for solid-waste decisions. For most of the past two decades, Yates County operated without an in-force version of that document.
The gap matters now because the decisions the plan is meant to guide are arriving on a deadline. The Ontario County Landfill — the largest single destination for Yates County's waste — is scheduled to close at the end of 2028. A planning document that should have been steering that transition for years is only now in draft form.
As of the public records reviewed for this page, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation lists Yates County's plan status as "Draft LSWMP received" — not approved or adopted.
Sources: NYSDEC Status of Local Solid Waste Management Plans (Yates County listed as "Draft LSWMP received," as of the records reviewed); Yates County Local Solid Waste Management Plan page; Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council draft plan.
The draft plan was prepared by the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council on behalf of the county, following New York State guidance, and covers a ten-year planning horizon. Drawing on data from haulers, transfer stations, schools, and wastewater treatment plants, it estimates that Yates County generates about 22,950 tons of waste a year.
A few figures define the draft:
The draft frames its goal as reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills, rather than identifying a single replacement disposal site. It is a planning and diversion document, not a contract for where the county's waste will go after 2028.
Here is the documented timeline, and the step that has not yet appeared in the public record.
A draft plan and an adopted plan are not the same thing. An adopted LSWMP is the document the county and the state treat as governing: it sets the diversion targets, the programs, and the disposal approach the county commits to follow.
That distinction is sharpened by timing. The Ontario County Landfill — the largest single destination for Yates County's waste — is scheduled to close at the end of 2028. The plan meant to guide how the county handles that transition is still, on the public record, a draft. Tracking when and whether it is adopted is the point of this page.
These are the records that would confirm whether and when the draft becomes the county's adopted plan.
This page will be updated as these records appear.
Current waste flow, transfer stations, and the Ontario County Landfill connection.
What the 2028 closure means for Yates County's disposal path.
What New York law requires and what records would show whether recycling is enforced.
Page last reviewed: June 7, 2026
Underlying records current as of: June 7, 2026
This page tracks an evolving approval process. Findings will be updated as records are obtained.
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