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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 10, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~ <br />SUBJECT: Solid Waste Matters <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager/Public Works <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) 1~`0: <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/N) N~::. <br />ATTACHMENT(S): ~ INFORNTATION CONTACT: <br />As noted in abstract John Link, ext 2300 <br />Wilbert McAdoo, ext 2625 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss and provide direction to staff on proposed landfill community benefits and <br />solid waste management options. <br />BACKGROUND: The Boazd may wish to review, discuss, and provide direction on a number of <br />issues related to proposed landfill community benefits and future solid waste management options, <br />as outlined briefly below and in referenced attachments: <br />Community Benefits: Status report on governing board action, and staff implementation (where <br />applicable) on fourteen proposed landfill community benefits (Attachment 3A); Chair's letter to <br />NCDOT requesting assistance for traffic signs on Rogers. Road (Attachment 3B); Sheriff s memo <br />on close patrol along Rogers Road related to vehicles with uncovered loads or causing litter <br />(Attachment 3C). <br />NewlAdditional Information: Review of landfill reserve funds for equipment replacement, land <br />acquisition, and landfill construction, with discussion of possible alternative uses of these reserves if <br />anew landfill is not pursued (Attachment 3D); County Engineer's memo on potential impacts of <br />blasting associated with Landfill construction on wells and groundwater (Attachment 3 E); <br />confirmation of estimated operating/capital cost per ton for a materials recovery facility <br />(Attachment 3F); Environmental Health Director's memo on well water treatment systems and their <br />associated costs (Attachment 3G); Joyce Engineering report on the feasibility of the use of the <br />Greene Tract as a potential site for a transfer station, MRF, and/or construction & demolition <br />landfill (Attachment 3H, in bound document -received late Friday, February 6, so no County staff <br />review has taken place); staff memo, developed in response to citizen inquiry about landfill post- <br />closure costs (Attachment 3I). <br />