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Comprehensive Review of S olid W aste Collection and Disposal Options v2.1 85 10/22/12 Exhibit 6 -3. Route Capacity Analysis # Collection Days (per week) CY per Collection Route (750 lb/cy) CY per Collection Route (1,000 lb/cy) 6 routes 7 routes 8 routes 6 routes 7 routes 8 routes 2 28.74 24.63 21.55 21.55 18.47 16.16 3 19.16 16.42 14.37 14.37 12.32 10.78 4 14.37 12.32 10.78 10.78 9.24 8.08 5 11.49 9.85 8.62 8.62 7.39 6.47 Notes: 1. Total annual residential MSW disposal = 6,725 tons. 2. SWANA resources support typical industry compaction density of in-truck waste ranges between 500 and 1,000 pounds per cy. 3. Each route anticipated to include one 19 cubic yard rear loader compaction vehicle making one trip per collection day. Adjusting the number of collection days or routes, is necessary to adequately distribute the daily collection volume among the subject vehicles, thus enabling each collection route to make a single trip to the transfer station during each collection day, while also mitigating the potential of the residential collection vehicles exceeding their legal weight limit during the periodic use of the single-axle trucks comprising the reserve fleet. This analysis highlights that understanding the Town’s actual waste compaction density is critical to configuring the route distribution. This analysis assumes that as the existing cubic yard single-axle fleet reaches the end of its operating life (deemed to be 7 years), these vehicles will be replaced with new 18 to 20 cubic tandem-axle vehicles and the older tandem-axle vehicles will become a backup piece of equipment in the reserve fleet. Certainly the replacement vehicles purchased in the future could be larger capacity, such as 25 cubic yards. Accordingly, these tandem-axle vehicles will further enable the Town to meet its load capacity and NCDOT weight limits. Furthermore, the analysis includes a separate scenario which evaluates phasing in automated collection vehicles targeting appropriate areas of the Town which can accommodate automated collection services. Refer to Section 4 for further discussion regarding introduction of automated collections. For this short-term, direct haul option, additional routing and scheduling modifications to the commercial fleet are anticipated to accommodate the legal weight limits and multiple direct haul trips to a transfer station. This analysis anticipates that implementing the commercial collections recommendations, including a routing study, identified in Section 4 will promote collection efficiencies that would likely allow the commercial collections vehicles to continue to make two (2) daily trips to the target transfer station while evenly distributing the waste into highway legal loads. 6.3.2 Fleet Fuel and Maintenance Costs All Town collections vehicles are garaged, serviced, maintained, and fueled at the Public Works facility. The vehicles dispatch from and return to this same location after each collection route. The Town maintains a detailed maintenance, repair, and fuel consumption log for each vehicle