A hefty boost in the price of garbage collection for Fort Dodge residents and businesses has been averted for now. But an increase seems inevitable as the North Central Iowa Regional Solid Waste Agency seeks to pay the estimated $1.7 million cost of opening a new section of the landfill. That new section will be needed in 2010. ‘‘They’re going to wind up paying more to get rid of their trash,’’ agency Director Gary Schmidt said, describing how that new section’s price tag will affect residents. On Wednesday, the agency’s executive committee canceled a $7 hike in the cost of dumping a cubic yard of waste at the landfill. That increase would have boosted that fee to $12 per cubic yard on Oct. 1. Local governments and private sanitation companies would likely have passed that increase on to their customers. Also on Wednesday, the committee directed the agency’s staff and Ruan Securities, of Des Moines, to make recommendations for financing the new landfill section.