COVENTRY, Vt. (AP) – Community leaders in southern Quebec want to have a say in plans to expand a Vermont landfill located in the Lake Memphremagog watershed.

The role of Quebec and the Canadian government in the expansion of the New England Waste Services of Vermont landfill is due to be discussed at an Aug. 10 meeting of the District 7 Environmental Commission in Newport.

The hearing will also discuss the landfill owner’s application to expand the landfill next to the airport in Coventry and to increase the amount of garbage trucked into the site.

The Vermont Waste Management Division has given New England Waste Services of Vermont a draft certificate to allow the landfill to increase its capacity to 370,000 tons of solid waste up from the current limit of 140,000 tons. The division also gave New England Waste Services permission to operate for five more years.

Municipalities in Quebec that depend on the Lake Memphremagog watershed for drinking water have a list of conditions they want the commission to enforce.

Quebecers want the old Nadeau landfill cleaned out, which the parent company of New England Waste Services’ parent company, Casella Waste Systems of Rutland, has agreed to do.

They also want any liquid leaching out of the lined new landfill to be stored somewhere other than in the Lake Memphremagog watershed. New England Waste had planned to keep storage tanks on site.

The Quebecers also want the commission to create a fund to oversee the landfill after it is closed.