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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> February 7, 2008 <br /> Approved April 3, 2008 <br /> Vickers asks if you talked to the State air pollution agency about the practicalities of <br /> burning wood fuel . There is higher particulate emission from wood than from coal, <br /> oil or gas . <br /> ter Horst states that it would be an improvement for homeowners using wood stoves . <br /> It improves on the emissions . The combustion is more efficient than an open fireplace <br /> or hearth . <br /> Grunwald notes it reduces the pollution already there . <br /> Sassaman asks what is it that you want from this group . Why are you here ? You <br /> have informed us and we can give you lots of ideas, but what is it that brought you <br /> id Waste Advisory Board . <br /> specifically to the Sol <br /> Hanks states that we wanted to see what we would have to do for this to become <br /> viable in the county . See what your response is and see what you can do [if you] <br /> have more information provided . <br /> Sassaman clarifies what do you want of the Solid Waste Advisory Board in a broader <br /> context of the solid waste operation and the landfill . Do you want to locate where the <br /> landfill is ? Do you want yard waste ? What is it that you are asking for ? Our <br /> response to you will be different depending on what you want. Do you want to put a <br /> facility on Eubanks Road? <br /> Hanks replies yes we would like to have a facility . We would need 10 acres adjacent <br /> to the landfill . <br /> Sassaman asks Board member Bowerman her opinion of a facility that would bring <br /> more materials into that area, perhaps 100, 000 tons a year . They clarify that ter Horst <br /> and Hanks are discussing the parcel of land for sale adjacent to the railroad tracks <br /> ter Horst replies, Yes we would love to have a place beside or near it. We are also <br /> looking elsewhere in the County to see what' s viable economically . <br /> Sassaman states that you are aware of the waste transfer station issue . One of the big <br /> problems is the volume of trucks that will pass through there, which are <br /> incrementally not much compared to what you would have and even if you don ' t <br /> have trucks, you' d have rail which would increase the rail traffic . The other question I <br /> have is that the yard waste that we have is a marketable product for us . <br /> Hanks replies that we are not looking for you all to give that to us for free . We would <br /> maybe set up a long-term contract where we pay to take it out two times a day . <br /> 3 <br />