Agenda - 12-07-2009 - 6a - Laserfiche WebLink

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1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Project Description The County currently disposes of solid waste from residents and businesses at the existing Orange County solid waste landfill on Eubanks Road. This landfill is expected to reach capacity and be closed in 2012. Rather than construct a new landfill, the County has decided to dispose of its solid wastes in a regional landfill outside of the County after the present landfill has reached its capacity. A solid waste transfer station is needed within the County to receive solid wastes from the local collection trucks and to consolidate those wastes into larger long -haul trucks for transportation to the selected regional landfill. No wastes will be disposed at the transfer station site and all wastes will be stored in appropriate watertight containers until they are removed from the site for disposal. The transfer station will consist of an enclosed metal building (160 feet by 160 feet) and scale house (20 feet by 20 feet), which will sit on a 10 -acre parcel of land in the central part of Orange County off Millhouse Road adjacent to the boundary of the existing Orange County Eubanks landfill. The site location is shown on Exhibit A. Except for the use of an existing entrance road easement, construction of the facility will be confined to the 10 -acre site and a small area of adjacent County park land. The roads, equipment storage area, parking spaces, and buildings will result in approximately 160,000 square feet of impermeable surface. The site will be graded prior to construction and designed to protect the quality of the stormwater runoff. The wastewater generated at the site by cleaning the tipping floor of the transfer station will be recycled with the residue hauled off -site for disposal. Sanitary wastes will be treated on site with a septic system. After being weighed on a scale system at the scale house, trucks that enter the facility will unload their wastes on a tipping floor inside the building and exit. The building will be enclosed to minimize odor and control dust and litter. The wastes will then be pushed from the tipping floor into enclosed and watertight trailers attached to long -haul vehicles, located below the tipping floor. Approximately 250 tons of waste will be loaded daily. At the end of each day, the tipping floor will be emptied completely, and all wastes stored in containers in the trailer storage area. The wastes will be moved by the long -haul vehicles to an out -of- county regional landfill where the wastes will be unloaded and disposed. The County plans to solicit bids from regional waste disposal landfills once the transfer station has been sited and designed. A conceptual site plan layout for this site is presented as Exhibit B. The transfer station shall only accept solid waste that is generated by households, institutions, commercial businesses, and some industrial establishments. Although residential municipal solid waste (MSW) routinely contains limited quantities of cleaners and similar household products, the Environmental Assessment — Paydarfar Site September 30, 2009