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An average of one-third of the tonnage sent to the two County-certified mixed waste processing facilities was recovered, while an average oftwo-thirds was landfilled. This 33% collective recovery rate (including rating the processed small particles or `fines' as alternate. daily cover at 50% of their weight for the diversion calculation) makes the diversion rate from waste at these facilities numerically comparable to the tonnage of readily recoverable clean wood, cardboard and metal that were estimated to have been formerly contained in mixed loads of C&D delivered to Orange County landfill. The County has added a staff member to conduct field enforcement and education about the RRMO and one-and-a-half staff members to physically handle the regulated materials delivered to the landfill along with a significant investment in infrastructure including a large, heavy-duty concrete pad for delivery, storage and loading the metal as well as processing and loading white goods and cardboard, open top 40 yard containers for scrap metal, open top trailers and a conveyor for loading and hauling wood chips and a cardboard compactor. Use of other equipment including the horizontal grinder used for grinding mulch and clean wood and arubber-tire loader and a track hoe with thumb bucket attachment used to both load regulated materials and feed the grinder are partly attributable to the County's C&D management program. Overall the C&D landfill and recycling program functions smoothly with a 50% reduction in tonnage resulting since the l?:RMO was passed in 2002. While the reduction in C&D resulted in tipping fee revenue loss averaging $590,000 at the current C&D tipping fee of $41 per ton, (14,4000 tons x $41/ton), $334,000 in new RRMO-related revenue was generated from sale of scrap metal and clean wood along with the various solid waste plan review fees, licensing fees and penalties for RItMO violations (double tip fee penalties). Thus net loss to the Solid Waste Department in exchange for gaining a projected seven years of locally available C&D landfill space averages $256,000 annually. MSW Mana eg ment Orange County's rate of MSW generation has not increased in nine years. For the past four years, since the last three year update submittal, tonnage averaged 57,100 tons and last FY it was 57,300 (table 1-4). Reported out-of-county disposal did not rise during the past four years either. Table ES-4 MSW landfilled in Orange Co. and outside Orange Co. 2003-04 to 2006-07 We gained two years of landfill airspace, due to a combination of this lower-than- expected waste generation rate coupled to the use of heavier landfill compaction equipment and higher-than-expected rates of landfill subsidence, which allowed reclamation of some air space from formerly completed landfill side slopes. Now the MSW lined landfill is projected to close in early 2011, as opposed to the 2009 closure date projected in the previous solid waste plan update submittal. That maybe again revised to an earlier closing date by State-mandated recent rules changes now requiring the County to deposit furniture and other bulky items that formerly went to C&D into the lined landfill as of April 2008. That rules change may result in a shift of as much as 8,000 7