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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board February 5, 2009 Approved March 5, 2009 Wilson states that they have already passed legislature year before last making it impossible to site a new landfill so they are moving in that direction. If you are trying to site a landfill for more than a single jurisdiction you have significant hurdles and costs to incur . One private company I know has determined they' ll never be able to site another landfill in North Carolina . 5 . Landfill Groundwater Monitoring Program -- SWAB Hosting of March 5 Public Meeting Wilson states that the groundwater monitoring at the landfill has detected some chemicals that are over the groundwater standards . The SWAB will host a public meeting as part of their next regular meeting to have our hydrogeologist come in to explain that and what the corrective measures will be . We feel confident that the State will give us permission to proceed and we hope to reduce them down to acceptable levels . All but one are already below drinking water standards . Bowerman asks what does this mean for people with wells . Where are the areas that should be worried or should anybody ? Sassaman states that OWASA can give you water that can contain more [of these chemicals than are in the water] . Some of the State ' s 2L standards are below the level of instruments' ability to detect them . Vickers adds that North Carolina has notoriously low thresholds for groundwater standards, the lowest in the country . Norwood requests that before March 5th to test Ms . Nunn s well . Wilson replies that there is a well that was required to be placed adjacent to her property . The part of the landfill that is on the north side of Eubanks Rd . on the very eastern border, the direction of groundwater flow has no opportunity to flow in the direction of Rogers Rd . In fact it is going in the opposite direction . The hydrogeologist will explain the situation, how we ' re going to solve it and when and respond to questions . Then we' ll take a summary of the meeting to the state, they will approve our corrective action plan and we ' re going to implement it. 6 . Programs/Services Update Landfill Gas Recovery Project Wilson states that the BOCC is going to approve the contract at their February 17th meeting . We are working with the University on the design and permitting of a gas recovery facility at the landfill where the gas will initially be flared which will destroy the methane . The second stage that will follow soon after is to take the methane and create energy and turn it to power . Solid Waste Budget Issues - Deferred 17