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<br /> Comprehensive Review of <br /> S olid W aste Collection and Disposal Options <br /> <br /> <br />v2.1 79 10/22/12 <br />6.2 IDENTIFIED TARGET TR ANSFER STATIONS <br />The Town engaged SCS to conduct this Study to evaluate the life cycle costs and impact to their <br />Solid Waste Management Program of direct hauling collected waste to various transfer stations. <br />With this evaluation, SCS considered the following variables and inputs to identify the lowest <br />cost option for MSW disposal at existing transfer stations: <br /> Hauling distance; <br /> Disposal tipping fees; <br /> Average daily throughput of the facility; <br /> Town collection fleet fuel and maintenance costs; <br /> Fleet modifications or upgrades; and, <br /> Labor and collections routing modifications. <br /> <br />SCS reviewed several published resources to develop a list of viable target transfer stations for <br />this direct haul evaluation including the “Directory of Non-hazardous Waste Sites-2011” <br />compiled by the Waste Business Journal and cross-referenced to the listing of solid waste <br />facilities currently permitted by NCDENR. The Waste Business Journal Directory provided an <br />electronically sortable list of facilities for North Carolina and surrounding states which included <br />pertinent information such as: <br /> Facility type (i.e., landfill, transfer station, MRF, etc.); <br /> Facility address; <br /> Owner/Operator description (i.e., public or private); <br /> Contact information; <br /> Facility permit number; <br /> Daily average throughput (tons per day); <br /> Permitted and remaining capacities; and, <br /> Tipping fees. <br /> <br />Using these references, a compilation of existing permitted transfer stations in North Carolina <br />and Virginia was developed along with the estimated driving distance to each facility from a <br />predetermined location presumed to be the geographic center of the Town, which coincides with <br />the intersection of East Franklin and Columbia Streets. A total of 31 MSW transfer stations were <br />identified within a radius of approximately 115 miles of the Town. <br />Using the current Town MSW collection and disposal quantities summarized in Section 2 for <br />both residential and commercial operations, and assuming an ongoing collection schedule of 2 <br />days per week, the Town is anticipated to potentially contribute an additional 150 tons of MSW <br />throughput per day that would be required of a target transfer station to manage. Accordingly, <br />existing transfer stations exhibiting a daily average throughput of less than 150 tons were <br />excluded from consideration, since SCS suspects these facilities may not be designed, permitted, <br />or staffed to manage an additional 150 tons of daily throughput. Based on this criterion, SCS <br />identified a total of 12 existing MSW transfer stations within a 100 mile radius of the Town that <br />are considered to be qualified facilities: 7 publicly-owned facilities and 5 privately-owned