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r <br />Al <br />Memorandum <br />To: Solid Waste Advisory Group <br />From: Gayle Wilson, County Solid Waste Director <br />Date: September 19, 2014 <br />Subject: September 26 SWAG Meeting Agenda <br />Several questions arose at the September 12 SWAG meeting. Three of them are addressed below: <br />1) Why is the County treated differently for termination (Section II.C.) with regard to "without <br />Penalty or cost "? <br />County Attorney response: "Because the county has the burden of providing the services and has all the <br />risk and exposure associated with solid waste ". <br />Additional discussion or information can be provided by the attorney as requested. <br />2) Request for update on landfill gas recovery status and opportunities to expand gas recovery. <br />The landfill gas recovery system is owned and operated by UNC Chapel Hill through an agreement <br />between UNC —CH and the County. Part of the University's ongoing operations on landfill property, in <br />addition to the physical collection system infrastructure, includes well field balancing and monitoring on <br />a monthly basis, and a weekly inspection of the blower /flare station. While County solid waste staff is <br />capable of providing information related to this project, UNC —CH Energy Services staff should perhaps <br />more appropriately be consulted /involved for any substantive discussion of this system's status, the <br />potential to expand gas recovery or potential alternative uses of gas currently flared. <br />3) A question arose regarding level of use (quantity of materials) following roll cart implementation <br />within the Towns and who is using the 24 -hour recycling drop -off sites and that a survey might <br />be necessary to determine where users of the sites reside (in town, another county, etc.). <br />County staff has no recent data regarding residence of site users and a survey would be required to <br />ascertain this information, assuming users were willing to provide that "place of residence" information. <br />Regarding tonnages, cardboard is not segregated by site and is collected by front - loading trucks that co- <br />mingles the material with cardboard from other service locations, so site /program specific data is not <br />available. For the other materials we do collect data by site and can provide average monthly tonnage <br />per site vs. average first quarter tonnage by site by early October. Perhaps this information can be <br />provided to the SWAG at an October meeting. <br />4) Transfer Station Tour <br />Staff has confirmed that the Greensboro Waste Transfer Station (WTS) is open for business and available <br />for a tour. On September 15 a staff visit to the facility did not observe any odors traveling to or from the <br />