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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> January 6 , 2005 <br /> Approved March 3, 2005 <br /> in this county or any other county . Given the cost of building around here, it is <br /> reasonable to take care of the need for a local viable place to get rid of this material <br /> and we think we can do it locally and for reasonable rates compared to what the <br /> disposal would be in other counties . What [else] this would do, whether it ' s on leased <br /> property or county- owned property, would also give a place for emergency debris <br /> management capability -that we don' t have now . If we had a " Fran " or even another <br /> ice storm, we would be up against the wall . I have no space to receive or manage that <br /> stuff . We have 14 acres we can ' t use due to the nature of the special fuse permit . I can <br /> only excavate dirt and store dirt . And this kind of operation would probably be done <br /> further out in the county . <br /> Kabrick states that I would support having a land-clearing debris facility but only if <br /> the Commissioners constructed regulations that required land-clearing debris be . <br /> handled in a certain manner . <br /> Sassaman asks how that would dovetail with the Towns ? What about if the Towns <br /> thumb their noses at it? <br /> Kabrick proposes that the response be that the County recycling facilities; be <br /> designated to handle all the land clearing debris . <br /> Sassaman points out that those types of regulations are in place for C &D but the <br /> Town of Chapel Hill has not signed on, so we have those types of regulations , but <br /> there is a disconnect . <br /> r <br /> Wilson states that a flow control issue would arise if all land clearing debris were <br /> directed to go to a specific facility . I dot t think it would withstand the judicial test . <br /> You could say it has to be recycled and not landfilled . <br /> Kabrick asks if that could be restricted to just within the County ? <br /> Vickers points out that most of it goes out of County and that there is no place to take <br /> it. in Orange County <br /> Wilson reiterates that the notion here is to provide a location within the County at a <br /> reasonable price and encourage them to bring it here rather than landfill or burn it . <br /> Pollock states that you can' t make people go to a county owned facility because of <br /> failing the Constitutional test on restraint of trade . You can ' t tell them they have to <br /> take it to some place within a certain boundary, but do as we do now with <br /> construction waste, you can take your mixed loads of C &D wherever you want, but it <br /> has to be recycled . <br /> 4 <br />