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s ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: September 7, 1999 Action Agenda Item No. ~ _a SUBJECT: Potential Construction and Demolition (C&D) Landfill Site Evaluations DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Engineer's Report John Link or Rod Visser, ext 2300 (under separate cover) Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To receive a report from Joyce Engineering, Inc. concerning their technical evaluations of two potential sites for a construction and demolition (C&D) landfill. BACKGROUND: In late 1998, the Landfill Owners' group authorized asub-committee of that group to provide direction to staff in exploring options and evaluating potential sites for a C&D landfill to replace the current facility. The existing C&D landfill is expected to reach capacity by the middle of 2000. The LOG sub-committee asked staff to evaluate potential sites near Guess Road in Little River Township and near the existing C&D landfill on Eubanks Road in Chapel Hill Township. Joyce Engineering, Inc. was retained to provide technical evaluations of both candidate sites. At this September 7 meeting, Joyce will present a report on its findings concerning both of these sites. This meeting is intended as a forum to receive the consultant's report and to afford the Board an opportunity to ask questions about the findings. A public hearing on this subject has been scheduled for the evening of Thursday, September 16 in Hillsborough to receive comments from citizens about the consultant's report and the proposed sites. While this September 7 meeting is not designed to receive public comment, the Board may wish to invite citizens to submit in writing any questions they may have following the consultant's presentation. The Clerk to the Board can collect these questions and provide them to staff and the consultant so they can prepare answers to citizen questions at the September 16 public hearing. The governing boards of Carrboro and Chapel Hill have also received written copies of the consultant's report. Both boards are considering a request from the BOCC that the towns cede their authority under the existing LOG arrangement to the BOCC regarding the decisions about the proposed Guess Road and Eubanks Road C&D sites.