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Comprehensive Review of S olid W aste Collection and Disposal Options v2.1 130 10/22/12 being recycled under the County’s existing and planned recycling programs and thereby increase the quantities of waste that are required to be transferred to disposal facilities. In the same manner, it is recommended that the Town also consider the concept of co-locating a composting facility in conjunction with a new transfer station that could be utilized to increase organics diversion rates. Examples of existing MSW transfer station facilities that having some degree of recycling or composting capabilities (in other words, a standard MSW transfer station that is essentially “co- located” with a composting/vegetative waste facility or has “MRF-like” capabilities such as a baler, sorter, or anything else to enable recovery and processing of recyclables) are noted below:  Recology Hay Road Composting/MRF in Dixon, CA  Recology Yubb-Sutter Composting/MRF in Marysville, CA  Community Waste Disposal in Dallas, TX  Frederick County, MD  Ocean City, MD  Island County, WA 9.1.2.1 Sizing an Appropriate Facility Hypothetical transfer station MRF and transfer station/composting facility dimensions and waste throughput quantities were developed based on a number of assumptions regarding the maximum daily waste acceptance rates for MSW, recyclables, and vegetative wastes, facility configuration, traffic flow patterns, and setbacks to the property line from the transfer station building footprint. As noted in Section 7, assuming MSW collection occurs 4 days per week, 52 weeks per year, the daily MSW throughput quantities for a Town-only facility range from 75 tons per day (tpd) in FY 2014-15 to approximately 100 tpd in FY 2033-34.  If the Town of Chapel Hill decides to construct a transfer station that incorporates a MRF to accommodate their MSW generation plus an area for processing and storing recyclables for the next 20 years, the facility should be sized to manage 150 tpd.  Based on SCS’s experience, a transfer station/MRF sized to handle 150 tpd of MSW and recyclables will require a building footprint in the 13,500 sf range, situated on a site pad of at least 2.5 acres within a total property parcel size equal to 5 acres to accommodate site access, truck queuing, and turning radius. The Town currently collects approximately 2,500 tons per year of yard waste, which is anticipated to escalate to nearly 3,400 tons per year over the next 20 years.  If the Town of Chapel Hill decides to construct a transfer station that incorporates a vegetative waste composting facility to accommodate their MSW generation plus an area for processing and composting organic wastes for the next 20 years, the facility should be sized to manage 140 tpd.