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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> February 5, 2009 <br /> Approved March 5, 2009 <br /> Spire asks Hary what it would cost one way to drive the truck the 23 miles to one of <br /> the [private] facilities . The private station on Globe Road by RTP doesn' t even have a <br /> scalehouse, it' s open front, three bay . <br /> Howard states that the garbage trucks only get about three miles per gallon . I can' t <br /> even buy fuel for the truck . <br /> Spire states that the $40 tip fee is just to dump it on the floor . You have to get it there . <br /> If you go to your spot, it' s 23 or 25 miles . <br /> Norwood states that with our putting a transfer station in means we control it. If you <br /> bring private vendors in we have no control . We can' t dictate to them anything about <br /> operational hours, number of trucks . If we build it, we will have the control over <br /> what it looks like and to some degree the affects it has on who ever is close to it. With <br /> a private contractor we have no say; within certain guidelines they will do what they <br /> want. <br /> Hauser states that we are not proposing that we hire a vendor to build a transfer <br /> station . We are proposing that until we decide where we are going with waste-to - <br /> energy that we use one of the existing vendor facilities in Durham or Raleigh for the <br /> time being, even if it is a couple of bucks more per ton, although I think it is going to <br /> be cheaper once we figure out what it will cost to build and operate our own. <br /> Sassaman asks how long is the " time being " . <br /> Hauser asks how long will it take us to decide what we want to do with waste-to- <br /> energy . Not to do it but to decide what we are going to do . <br /> Sassaman replies at the rate we are going ? <br /> Wilson states that to give you a point of reference . I was on a panel with a very high <br /> ranking legislator back in 1992 and presentations were being made and the question <br /> that came up for each of us was " What would we be doing with our waste 20 years <br /> from now ? " I was the last one and many were saying there wouldn ' t be landfills, <br /> there will be technology and this and that. I stated that we would be relying on <br /> landfills easily 20 years from now and probably for another 30 or 40 years . We are <br /> almost 20 years down the road and there hasn ' t been one waste-to-energy or high <br /> technology processing facility built in North Carolina in all that time . The only <br /> incinerator i ies n the State has had private compan trying to put them out of business <br /> since they opened in the mid eighties . <br /> Hauser states that Mr . Gershman gave a fine presentation to the County saying <br /> something about 150 incinerators that operated 20 years ago 60 of them have been <br /> 11 <br />