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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> February 5, 2009 <br /> Approved March 5, 2009 <br /> We are not sure why ours is so much more expensive but believe part of the reason is <br /> that it is out in the rural county with no water and sewer and would need a lot of <br /> additional waste water capture designed into the facility . <br /> Sallach states that hauling water is not what' s intended . [What is intended is] to do <br /> wash down is to use a combination of wells on site . You' d certainly consider recycling <br /> technology for volume reduction. You might use a small reverse osmosis technology <br /> to recycle some waste water as car washes now do . <br /> Susan Walser, Orange County Voice states that there are residents around there that <br /> can' t use their wells because of contamination and they' ve dried out during the <br /> drought, such as farmers that rely on ground water for their animals . The transfer <br /> station could be competing for water from that same aquifer . We were told I thought <br /> it was by Olver, that water would be hauled in . <br /> Sassaman states that the other issue was quantity . What is the waste a transfer station <br /> typically use in a day compared to a month? <br /> Sallach unintelligible . <br /> Sassaman asks of the monthly withdrawal of water to the nearest 1 , 000 or 10, 000 <br /> gallons . <br /> Hauser states that what we tried to do was bottom line . We took the numbers $7-$10 <br /> million to build compared to Waste Industries $lmillion to $2 million and because we <br /> didn' t have the numbers, we took the best practices from web sites for all other <br /> operations, shift operation, equipment, and figured between a half million dollars and <br /> a million dollars ( a year) to operate . <br /> Wilson states it would depend on what else was being done . If if also includes storm <br /> and yard debris, etc . <br /> Hauser states that this would be just for the transfer station, nothing that is being <br /> done at the landfill . The equipment, maintenance of the equipment, hauling and <br /> whatever related to garbage, how many shifts would that be . <br /> Wilson we plan to do one shift. <br /> Hauser : Greensboro runs Gam to 6pm . <br /> Wilson states that we are conducting an analysis on that now and will present that <br /> number [cost of operations] . <br /> 6 <br />