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&D - - or none of the above ? (9/3 / 1999 , CHN) http : //www . chapelhillnews . com/Issues/ 1999/09/03 /newsO2 .html 03 If he votes against Guess Road it won't matter what commissioner Moses Carey and board Chair Alice Gordon -- who are keeping mum - - decide . With three or more votes against it, the county won't exercise its option to buy the land for $ 497 , 000 , and only one site will be left under consideration : Eubanks Road . While the Guess Road site so far has drawn a great deal of public attention - - with 130 opponents appearing at one meeting where it wasn't even on the agenda - - the Eubanks Road location so far has been little discussed . Nonetheless , the possibility remains that Eubanks Road could have another landfill before neighbors struggling with bad wells get their long -promised water lines . The county' s option to buy the Guess Road site expires at the end of September . And Carey said that if it is not chosen, that likely spells another landfill for Eubanks road. "Not necessarily , " said Carey, " but probably . " But the Eubanks Road plan is far from a default option . The Eubanks Road site is far smaller than the Guess Road location - - 33 acres versus 178 acres - - and Wilson said it would last only 14 years . The Guess Road site , by comparison, r would be good for more than 60 . And, besides the controversy involved in siting another landfill on Eubanks Road, it would require the condemnation of property owned by Inna Deng who has sworn she will never let her land be used for a landfill . And it could involve tangling with Duke University , which as owner of Duke Forest land has thwarted prior attempts to site landfill facilities . Meanwhile , three commissioners -- Brown, Halkiotis and Jacobs - - have begun to suggest that neither site may be appropriate . And while Jacobs said it might be reasonable to consider other sites , Brown and Halkiotis now are openly questioning the need for another construction and demolition landfill . Asked for alternatives to the Eubanks Road site , Brown said, "No site . It' s not a mandate . " Halkiotis criticized the current economics of construction and demolition waste , which use dumping fees to help pay for local recycling programs . He described this revenue stream as " a form of legalized cocaine , " that encourages large- scale dumping of construction materials - - rather than recycling - - in order to pay for the recycling program . Brown said if Eubanks Road is chosen, she would want to see it attractively built, not showing neighbors a swath of raw earth. But she said what she ' d most want to see is a comprehensive recycling effort that focuses on construction waste, and encourages the resale of building materials . " I ' d really like to see Orange County have a first-rate recycling program that does C &D really well , " Brown said, " a facility that we can be proud 'off not all just being buried or thrown in a hole or carted off ' With the authority over landfill decision in what Brown called " a real limbo situation " until the county takes over from Chapel Hill, it' s unclear which elected boards must agree in order for a site to be chosen . of niIinn in . nn nXX