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14 <br />State law and policy and local ordinance and additional criteria <br />selected by the Search Committee. We believe that the 16 sites <br />were properly chosen based upon those. criteria. Using other <br />criteria or re- examining all areas of the county with the existing <br />criteria could yield additional properties. <br />Advantages of looking o ew °siteadditional <br />be fo found which would meet the <br />possibility that <br />county's needs. <br />Disadvantages would include additional cost in terms of time and <br />money to perform analysis on more properties; and generating <br />citizen opposition in some new area or areas. <br />D <br />co Do -del <br />with the LOG landfill <br />s selection 12rocess- <br />arrangements create <br />Jo <br />cam li <br />with-Joyce <br />Enct ineerin ? <br />No. <br />11. What ex erience does Joyce I leerinq have in o eratin <br />landfills elsewhere in the count-0 How many do they operate? 1% <br />there any consideration being iv en to contracting with Joyce to <br />op -rate the next orange County Landfill? <br />Joyce Engineering operates one landfill in West Virginia, and has <br />since 1983. Joyce provides operations management consulting <br />services in Virginia and west Virginia. <br />Joyce Engineering was selected by the Landfill owners' Group to be <br />our consultant after a lengthy process which included a national <br />search, and several interviews. They were selected in part because <br />the firm works only on landfills, including site selection, <br />design <br />and operation. we believed that a firm with landfill operating <br />experience was desirable, insofar as operating experience can <br />translate into superior design and selection ability. <br />We have never discussed with any employee of Joyce Engineering the <br />possibility that they might operate our landfill.' We would expect <br />the landfill to be operated by government <br />ocess <br />12. What rocedural ste s remain in the landfill. selection r <br />and how !!QK1K_M119 ht they be com letgd barring further unforeseen <br />elements? <br />The next step is to conduct the on -site testing of the four sites <br />under active consideration. Following this step, the consultants <br />would report to the Search Committee their fndings, including <br />information about depth and types of soils, <br />groundwater, direction of flow of groundwater, site characteristics <br />such as surface drainage, and information on how the site could be <br />developed into a land�eSl•whichcwauldlin engineering include cos plans <br />developed for the sites, <br />more exact estimates of useful life. <br />