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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> May 1 , 2008 <br /> Approved June 5, 2008 <br /> Landfill Leachate Sezver Project Wilson states that there is an agreement from the <br /> property owners . The attorney is drawing up the final document for them to sign . It <br /> is possible that we could go out to bid by the end of the month . How much the sewer <br /> will improve the odor is unclear but it could help in the summer time and would keep <br /> us from pumping and hauling it. The sewer will also serve the Animal Shelter . <br /> Orange County Comprehensive Plan Pollock states that the public meetings were held <br /> on the 9th and 23rd of April . There is a public hearing on the 19th in front of the BOCC . <br /> The way the plan is set up one of the chapters pertains to public services . You can <br /> view on line or at the County Planning Office those chapters concerned with solid <br /> waste and environmental services . You can view or make comments on line at the <br /> County ' s url followed by/ planning/ compre . cpupdate . From a narrow perspective <br /> they 've captured your concerns expressed last year . We want to make sure as they <br /> create zoning districts they don' t zone out solid waste activities . When putting a <br /> transfer station on a landfill site is not deemed a solid waste activity, that' s where <br /> politics and zoning intersect. If we wanted to site a composting facility right now in <br /> Orange County, I am not sure where we could do that. If you' re interested check the <br /> County' s web site . <br /> Landfill Gas Recovery Pollock states that the University and Orange County hope to <br /> complete their agreement this summer . That means that they should get underway <br /> with construction of a system that will enable them to flare gas next year . The year <br /> after that if it goes through the Chapel Hill Planning process they will have some <br /> kind of thing to pump the gas, set up a generator set to make electricity, or they can <br /> run a gas pipe line from the landfill to Carolina North . There are three paths for that <br /> and they can then do direct combustion at Carolina North or make a cogeneration <br /> plant at Carolina North . It looks like they' ll have a deal and the carbon credits are <br /> worth more than the fuel or electricity value . There is going to be landfill gas <br /> recovery . <br /> Smith asks if 50 percent of the landfill gas is collected, how big of a building would <br /> that heat. <br /> Pollock replies that they were talking about it making 400 cubic feet/ minute for the <br /> next 20 years . I' m not sure . One of the issues arose was how much is this going to do <br /> for Carolina North . It will only be a supplement; it will not fire the whole campus . <br /> Vickers states that the drive behind it seems to be being green or claiming green <br /> credits . <br /> 6 <br />