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• Added 500 homes to rural curbside, 575 to urban curbside <br />• A11 residential and MFU and some commercial collections now <br />commingled two-stream, two bins/carts no longer source-separated <br />• Completed design of Solid Waste Operations Center <br />• Apri12007 the BOCC created the Historic Roger's Road <br />Community Enhancement Plan Development and Monitoring Task <br />Force. To develop and recommend a plan to the BOCC for the <br />enhancement of the living environment in the Historic Rogers <br />Road Community. <br />• Acquired site, expanded and improved Walnut Grove Church Road <br />Solid Waste Convenience Center, built own site including <br />emergency storm debris management area. <br />2007-08: <br />Statistics <br />• Solid Waste Department took over operation of Solid Waste <br />Convenience Centers and other Sanitation functions e.g. Orange <br />Co. government and school buildings waste collection, from <br />Orange County Public Works Department <br />• Initiated County-wide Transfer Station Siting Process <br />• Added CESQGs to hazardous waste and electronics recycling <br />programs at no direct disposal cost to generator (covered by 3-R <br />Fee revenues) <br />• Closed Animal Shelter Recycling site, lease with UNC expired <br />after 20 years <br />• Initiated construction of Solid Waste Operations Center <br />During FY 2006-07, the Orange County landfill accepted for burial 73,847 tons of waste <br />including 57,298 tons of MSW and 16,549 tons of C&D that includes mobile homes and <br />inert debris. Another 14,211 tons are reported as generated in Orange County were <br />landfilled out-of-county. (See attached reports in Chapter 1). Most of the out- of-county <br />waste destinations are the same in 2006-07 as reported in previous years, but notably <br />absent was the City of Durham transfer station. We are aware anecdotally, from a local <br />private residential hauler that he delivers about 1;400 tons a year to Durham originating <br />from his Orange County private routes. He has also stated he is aware that other private <br />residential haulers also pick up in Orange County and deliver to the Durham Transfer <br />station. Thus we believe waste generation in Orange County remains underreported. <br />Tahle F.S-1 Waste Generated from Orange County 2006-07 <br />Ori ' of Waste Tons Comments <br />MSW landfilled in Orange County 57,298 <br />C&D landfilled in Orange County 16,549 Includes LCID, mobile homes, <br />water lant alum sludge <br />MSW landfilled outside Orange County 5,55 <br />C&D landfilled outside Orange County 8,674 Excludes C&D recycled at MWPs <br />Total tons dis osed from Orange County 88,060 <br />Waste per capita (pop = 123,776) 0.711 tons Base year 1.36 tons/capita -- <br />2006=07 Waste Reduction Rate: <br />3 <br />