Owners of two controversial waste dumping pits on Marion County farms, started by the same local excavator, may soon learn whether they can resume operations.
Greg Wing, of Hubbard-based All-Ways Excavating, built and operated the pits, in Aurora and Hubbard, charging to accept waste from industrial vacuum excavation, or vactor trucks, from multiple companies, as well as countertop cutting waste from Hubbard-based Pacific NW Marble & Granite.
Both sites are in exclusive farm use zones and operated without state or local permits or approval. Both temporarily halted operations in 2024, after the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality threatened fines and began pushing property owners to clean them up…