A Kansas landfill is planning on reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and created a renewable fuel source by constructing a $16 million methane gas plant and pipeline, a report by the Lawrence Journal-World says.

Hamm Landfill, located about 5 miles north of Lawrence, Kansas, serves about 500,000 residents in the state. As trash from those residents are broken down, extraction wells will capture the generated methane gas, the report says. The landfill has partnered with Renewable Power Producers, North Carolina, to develop the well field, processing plant, pipeline and interstate pipeline interconnect.

The pipeline will need to be six miles long to connect the plant to existing networks, according to the report. The land easement for the pipeline will be 15 feet wide, totaling in about 475,000 square feet of land. The report says the pipeline would run through city, state and private land, and all easement agreements are in place.

The report says the Lawrence City Commission approved the licensing agreement for the easement of the project, which will allow Renewable Power Producers to install, maintain and operate the pipeline and facilities to transport the landfill gas. The agreement will generate around $58,000 for the city over the next 30 years, according to the report.

The facility will sell the collected gas to various companies through a distributor, according to the report. It will employ four full time and four part time employees. The cost to build and run the plant will not affect collection costs charged to municipalities.

Construction of the pipeline is scheduled to being in six to eight weeks, the report says, and construction of the processing plant has already started off-site. Ten gas well have already been installed and 70 more will be added. The report says the plant is scheduled to start running in six to eight months.