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Memorandum To: John Link, County Manager From: Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Director Subject: Landfill Capacity Update Date: January 31, 2005 The following is a status report on the County landfills. Capacity estimations are subject to a number of variables and therefore are not precise by their very nature. Staf's current best estimate follows: Construction and Demolition Landfill (existing) The current.0 &D landfill, due to incoming waste reductions, is estimated to reach capacity sometime in the fall of 2005. Due primarily to 1) the Regulated Recyclable Material Ordinance and 2) the shifting of waste to out -of- county C &D landfills, C &D waste has dropped from 33,471 tons in FY 2000 /01 to 16,891 tons in FY 2003 /04. This is a 50% reduction within a three -year period. Construction and Demolition Landfill (new) The new C&D landfill is essentially constructed. The associated sedimentation basin has rock in the bottom that must be removed in order to achieve the necessary basin capacity, at which time a submission will be made to the state for an operating permit. This rock is the only known impediment to obtaining the final permit. We have recently surveyed the rock and ascertained the quantity that must be removed and expect to have the rock removed within 60 days. Presently, the expected capacity of the new C &D landfill is 17 years, or 2022. Municipal Solid Waste Landfill An aerial survey is conducted annually and is used to estimate, among other things, remaining landfill capacity. based on the survey from spring of 2004, the MSW landfill is expected to reach capacity the summer to early fall of 2010. Two items of concern regarding the closing of this landfill are: 1) a location for the transfer station is identified and that the transfer station is developed and ready by the spring of 2010, and 2) that financial provisions are made for funding landfill closure, which could exceed two Million dollars.