LEWISTON – A group will put a contract with Casella Waste Systems back on table next week.

Members of the city’s Solid Waste Task force will meet at 6 p.m. Aug. 27 to discuss a possible management deal for the sanitary landfill.

The group is expected to recommend a course of action for the City Council at the Sept. 4 meeting.

Councilors are expected to decide then if they want to put the management deal before the voters.

The deal would give the city about $47 million over 30 years, based on the city’s financial calculations.

That would be enough to take about $100 off of the average Lewiston property tax bill.

But it would drastically shorten the life of the landfill.

The agreement would leave the landfill full at the end of 30 years.

That same space – which includes existing landfill cells and years worth of expansion – would last the city 620 years at current rates.

The task force met with about 25 civic activists and local residents opposed to the city signing any agreement with Casella in July.