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• Maintains a counterclockwise traffic pattern <br />• Can be expanded from MRF operations to <br />Transfer Operations quite easily <br />• Maintains all drop -off activities off of the ring <br />road <br />• Isolates County convenience center away from <br />non - public access activities <br />• Features MRF and associated offices and <br />education center as focal point of solid waste <br />activities <br />• Maintains continuity of tire, white goods, and <br />mulch activities on same site with one operator <br />• Create opportunity to expand construction and <br />demolition recovery activities if required <br />• Already owned and properly zoned by Town of <br />Chapel Hill <br />• Already prepared for this type of activity with <br />existing haul roads, scales, etc. <br />• Aids integration of Solid Waste /Recycling <br />activities <br />• Significant buffer from residential areas <br />• Environmental controls and monitoring in place <br />• Consolidates equipment parking and <br />maintenance activities <br />CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br />• Constrains transfer station activities to back of <br />site. <br />• Moves county convenience center from existing <br />location <br />• Requires construction of new gate, access <br />road, and scale complex <br />• Requires traffic crossing of passenger cars and <br />truck traffic returning to scale <br />The Eubanks Road site provides an excellent site for the integrated activities of material recovery, <br />transfer, construction and demolition recovery and disposal, tire, white goods, mulch management, and <br />equipment parking and maintenance. It is possible to configure the site in such a way as to reasonably <br />accommodate all of the planned and potential activities that Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County <br />might contemplate for this site. <br />Furthermore, this site has an excellent setback from neighboring residents. With the exception of one <br />household, all of the planned activities for the new recovery areas would be undertaken mostly out of sight <br />and earshot of the nearest neighbors. The combination of retired landfill space as well natural forest, <br />railroad right of way, and roadway buffers makes for an unusually compatible site with the neighboring <br />activities and residents. <br />The transition of this site from solid waste disposal to the more environmentally friendly recovery and <br />recycling activities is compatible with the cutting edge trends of solid waste management for the 21 st <br />Century. The activities'are more conducive to economic growth and activity, far less likely to cause <br />environmental degradation, and will comprehensively work to reduce the community's reliance on <br />transferring or landfilling solid waste as its primary means of managing is solid waste stream. <br />2/5/99 Orange Regional MRF LOG Workshop Materials 14 <br />