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37 <br />az General Engineering and Environmental Management Services <br />LANDFILL SITE SELECTION <br />HDR was selected by the County to continue serving its needs in selecting and developing a <br />new landfill. In the spring of 1997, the County Council appointed an ad -hoc committee to select <br />a site for the future landfill. The committee started the selection process by reviewing all of the <br />sites identified by the Cooperative. In June of 1998, County Council voted to obtain title to the <br />site then known as Site M; subsequently, it was called Southern Greenville County Landfill <br />(SGCL), and today is known as the Twin Chimneys. Landfill. The four parcels comprising the <br />1,156 acre Site M were subsequently purchased in 1999. Over a period of two and a half <br />years, HDR supervised the drilling and evaluation of 103 soil borings and the installation of 83 <br />piezometers at the new site. HDR conducted wetland identifications on the site and reviewed <br />the site for threatened and endangered species. On December 12, 2001, the Site <br />Hydrogeologic Characterization Report prepared by HDR was approved by the South <br />Carolina. Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC). HDR prepared the <br />permit application for a MSW landfill facility covering a total of 389 acres in seven distinct <br />units. The design included areas for management o f yard wastes, tires, white goods, <br />recyclables, leachate, and landfill gas, as well as locations for a citizen's convenience <br />center, scales, administrative offices, an education center, and maintenance building. In <br />February 2002, HDR submitted the permit application for the site. On November 20, 2003, <br />the County received MSW landfill permit #231001 -1102 for development of the Southern <br />Greenville County Landfill. <br />ENOREE LANDFILL <br />As planning was ongoing related to the new long -term landfill, the County was also dealing with disposal issues at the <br />Enoree Landfill ( Enoree). Phase I of Enoree was constructed and operated until it was closed and capped in 1994 <br />following the adoption of the Subtitle D landfill regulations requiring landfills to have liners. Landfilling operations ceased <br />at Enoree until July 1995 so that a lined landfill cell (Phase II Cell 1) could be permitted and constructed at the site. <br />In AnAl 100!. +k, (' ­ n+„ ;­ A -- DCD C. A--; -- -ha ---- .....r44 -- <br />