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1• ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No Vj[-A ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: March 23, 1993 SUBJECT: Access to Potential Landfill Sites DEPARTMENT County Manager PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT Reports on Landfill Site Advantages/ County Manager, ext 2300 Disadvantages (previously sent TELEPHONE NUMBER under separate cover) Hillsborough 732-8181 Consultant' s Revised Site Testing Plan Chapel Hill 968-4501 Proposed Resolution Mebane 227-2031 Proposed Interlocal Agreement Durham 688-7331 NCGS 40A-11 PURPOSE: To discuss, as needed, reports prepared by County staff, Chapel Hill town staff, and Joyce Engineering concerning advantages and disadvantages of potential landfill sites; to consider a resolution and interlocal agreement between Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro and Chapel Hill that authorizes the Town of Chapel Hill to act on behalf of the jurisdictions comprising the Landfill Owners ' Group in exercising the statutory authority granted to each jurisdiction to conduct testing of potential sites for a sanitary landfill. BACKGROUND: The Landfill Search Committee has identified four potential landfill sites - OC-2, OC-9, OC-11, and OC-17 - that will require subsurface testing for further evaluation of the suitability of each site. The results of this testing would permit development of preliminary engineering plans and cost estimates. These would allow the LSC to compare alternative sites along the lines of social implications, capital and operating costs, and environmental effects. The Board of Commissioners requested reports, through the Landfill Owners ' Group, that would outline perceived advantages/disadvantages of the potential landfill sites and an assessment of why or why not the Landfill Search Committee had voted to maintain each site under active consideration at this time. Staff prepared these reports, solicited comments on them from LSC members, and submitted them for review and approval to the LOG. At its March 11, 1993 meeting, the LOG received the reports, found them satisfactory, and forwarded them for consideration by each of the three governing bodies. The next step in the landfill search process involves gaining access to potential landfill sites to conduct physical testing of their suitabilities for that purpose. The County has authority under GS 40A- 11 to enter upon lands specified for the purpose of making surveys, borings, examinations and appraisals as may be necessary or expedient in selecting a site for a future landfill. Property owners can receive