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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> February 5, 2009 <br /> Approved March 5, 2009 <br /> consultation with the SWAB . The kinds of things that are being worked on are to re- <br /> review the alternate technology options that were looked at back in the Fall and also <br /> include the University in that. A <br /> Vickers asks if it has been made clear that the studies have nothing to do with the <br /> immediate transfer station issues, that they are all too long-range, ten years or more <br /> out. <br /> Wilson states that it has been made clear in some fashion. The Board has asked for <br /> additional information and we' re going to provide it. Part of the additional tasks are <br /> to complete development of the contingency plan to handle the waste in the event and <br /> increasing likelihood that the transfer station will not be ready by the time the landfill <br /> reaches capacity . We have been asked to evaluate the proposal from Orange County <br /> Voice and to conduct a more in- depth analysis of the proposal and our financials <br /> going forward and looking at all the options both public and private options . The <br /> hauling and disposal was always intended to be contracted out but the issue now is <br /> should there be a local transfer station at all or should a private transfer station be <br /> relied upon. If there is a local one should it be public or private ? We will be looking <br /> at all those angles as well as cost and the implications of moving it in various <br /> directions . <br /> We have also been asked to contact adjacent local governments to again see if there <br /> might be some partnering opportunities . There have been significant talks in the past <br /> with Alamance and Durham Counties and off and on with Chatham County <br /> including as recently as this week . Most of us understand that landfills are not going <br /> to be the ultimate destination for waste and at some point alternate technologies will <br /> have to be developed and most of those are going to have to involve partnerships and <br /> joint arrangements . Wake County may have enough to pursue things by themselves . <br /> Orange County does not have enough quantity to justify most of the technologies <br /> available . So we will look to Chatham and others to partner in the future not only in <br /> disposal of waste, joint transfer stations but joining together in private contracts to <br /> leverage better deals because you have more waste, and ultimately partner in some <br /> non4andfill disposal option that could take advantage of economies of scale . It will <br /> take local government involvement to get these technologies off the ground and <br /> financed . We will be establishing contact to see where they are now and the direction <br /> they' re going and maintain continuing contact to take advantage of future <br /> opportunities . Hopefully in April we' ll come back with a comprehensive analysis <br /> from speaking to various parties including the private companies in this region . <br /> Board member Doug Guild states that he has some experience with plasma arc <br /> technology, I contacted a company in Washington State and they have some new <br /> systems being produced and coming out in the Spring that will deal with smaller <br /> quantities . I ' ve given them the numbers we are looking at. They' re running some <br /> 2 <br />