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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board November 2, 2006 Approved December 7, 2006 Attendance : Linda Bowerman, Bonnie Norwood, Randy Kabrick, Remus Smith and Jan Sassaman Staff : Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, Wanda McCain, and Paul Spire 1 . Adoption of Minutes from October 5 SWAB meeting Norwood moves to accept . Bowerman 2nd . Passes unanimously . 2 . Update to October 24 BOCC Work Session Sassaman states that the main issue related to solid waste was the transfer station . The BOCC are very reluctant to continue any kind of waste operations on Eubanks . However they can ' t come up with any alternatives either . The thing that was stressed by Gayle, Blair, Rod and myself was that time is short and something needs to be done fast . Siting another location will not be easy . Gayle made the comment that it took six years to site a landfill and the end result was not to have another landfill . Eubanks is an ideal location for all the practical environmental and engineering considerations . There is sufficient buffering . It is convenient for all the municipalities . The Durham plan came up and Gayle, Blair and Rod spoke on how inappropriate using Durham would be . After further discussion the Commissioners came to the following conclusions, the Durham issue came off the table and on November 14 they would make one of three choices - locate the transfer station at Eubanks, look for an alternative location, or have a public meeting . I stated to them that the transfer station should be thought of as a different kind of neighbor than a landfill . A transfer station is a building and can be designed and built to look like whatever you want it to look like . The other items were the solid waste management plan update, the landfill gas opportunities, solid waste operations center status report, and landfill post closure uses . Pollock states that it was mentioned to the Commissioners, in light of some of their specific concerns, that enclosed trucks were going to drive into a building that is contained, environmentally sound, with odor control and then drive. out . The other thing mentioned was the traffic issue . With the traffic from Chapel Hill Public Works and Transportation, UPS traffic, and the general increase of traffic coupled to the new development slated for Eubanks Road, the fifteen or so tractor trailers from a transfer station would not be noticeable . We feel that some of the specific things are covered in the response . There will be an eighty foot tall hill of grass between the neighborhood and the transfer station as a buffer zone . The environmental impact as a transfer station will be minimal, the odors that are experienced now will be eliminated . There are no more public [ owned and operated ] sanitation trucks using the road as a pass -through . But Carrboro trucks are now picking up waste in that neighborhood on their side of Rogers Road . 1