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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> February 5, 2009 <br /> Approved March 5, 2009 <br /> from a transfer station . A private company, unless it' s a hazardous waste, is not going <br /> to divert anything from the transfer station . It' s going on the scales, they' re going to <br /> get paid for it and it will go wherever they send it. <br /> Regarding the Bingham site, it was the BOCC criteria that they developed is what led <br /> us to those sites . I will bet that in ten years there will not be a waste-to -energy facility <br /> in Orange County . There is only a fifty fifty chance that we' ll even know where it will <br /> be . I am a strong advocate of it now that the air pollution technology has been <br /> improved . From an environmental standpoint, Orange County needs a transfer <br /> station . The waste generated is going to continue to be generated . It is not going to <br /> wait for us to figure out where waste-to -energy will be . The waste will probably not <br /> be a direct haul to wherever the waste-to-energy facility is . Hopefully it' s where the <br /> largest quantity of waste is and we' re going to need a transfer station to haul it there <br /> anyway . None of the transfer stations in Raleigh or Durham could be considered state <br /> of the art. <br /> Hauser states that our goal is not to own the Durham facility . Our goal is [to wait] <br /> until we get a sense about where we want to go . We want to go to RTP with a waste - <br /> to -energy facility then maybe a site over on Hwy 54 and I40 might be great for a <br /> transfer station in an industrial area that doesn ' t impinge on a rural community that is <br /> much closer to where the waste is going . <br /> Wilson states that in having discussions with the Assistant City manager and high <br /> level staff in Durham about siting a joint transfer station in southern Durham in the <br /> general area you are talking about they were not interested for two reasons . One is <br /> they didn ' t want to spend money on a second transfer station. They just wanted to use <br /> the one they had . Secondly they determined that there was no reasonably acquirable <br /> piece of property in that area . There are a lot of wetlands in that area . <br /> Hauser states I was being somewhat random on that but that the question is if we <br /> know where the waste-to -energy facility will be doesn ' t it make it easier for us to pick <br /> a site that is defensible ? <br /> Wilson replies no . What it makes sense to do is build a transfer station in an area that <br /> is most easily accessible to the waste generated in Orange County . <br /> Hauser says UNC is interested in plasma gasification technology and they' re <br /> interested in waste to energy long term why wouldn' t that be a site ? <br /> Sassaman states that we will have more opportunities to talk about this, but we have <br /> more items on our agenda to attend to . <br /> Walser asks how about lobbying the legislature to require a better solution . <br /> 16 <br />