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AGEv~A T; <br />.-_ <br />Memorandum <br />To: Landfill Owners Group <br />From: Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Director <br />Date: ~-L-aember =1996 <br />Subject: Follow-up Report on Options for Reducing Construction and Demolition Waste <br />1 ~~ <br />This report provides detailed information on options for managing construction and demolition <br />waste now being buried "at the Orange Regional Lnfdfll. An implementation plan for the <br />construction and demolition management option was requested by the Owners Group at their <br />August 15 meeting. We recognize that consideration of options for managing and reducing <br />construction and demolition wastes and acquiring land for a management facility is a major <br />undertaking. We recommend that the Owners Group eve the options full consideration over the <br />next two months in order to enable inclusion of a construction and demolition waste management <br />plan as part of the 1997-98 budget recommendations. <br />Srrmmars- <br />We now have approximately two-and-ont-half years of capacity remaining in the construction and <br />demolition waste landfill. By authorizing funds for acquiring land, planning a construction and <br />demolition waste recycling and muse facility, implementing county-wide construction waste <br />management requirements .and providing lower tipping fens for source separated materials, we <br />believe the Landfill Owners Group could effectively manage and significantly reduce the <br />construction and demolition waste stream in an integrated fashion. <br />Alternatives to managing this waste stream for waste reduction include a "no-build" option, <br />building a construction and demolition landfill only with no processing facility or building a <br />transfer station to move construction and demolition waste out of Orange County to another <br />permitted facility. <br />This memorandum describes five options for mana.,~ing construction and demolition wastes and <br />includes the pros and cons for each option. The options include the following: <br />1. Allow the existing construction and demolition waste landfill to fill up and Then <br />eliminate landfilling of construction and demolition wastes at the Orange ~ Regional <br />Landfill. Construction contractors would then be responsible for managin; their <br />wastes without a publicly owned disposal facility in Orange County. <br />2. Acquire fifteen acres of land and build a construction and demolition waste landfill <br />to last unti12005. <br />