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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board February 5, 2009 Approved March 5, 2009 Walser states that the way the population is growing the centroid will probably move north . Sassaman states that the only data to go on is not what people think and hope but what the County Planning Department came up with on a mathematical analysis . That is a geographical demographic technique . The population center of the US is near Kansas [actually central Missouri in 2000] , regardless of how many actually live in that place . That is the technique that was used . Hauser notes that it' s coincidental with the landfill . Pollock notes that the siting in 1972 was not based on that criterion. Vickers states that the centroid is accurate but not precise . Hauser states that the reason I ask that is I drove from the landfill to the Howell site which is 111/2 miles . If I drive 11/2 miles from here to Hwy 86 and 140 and then 12 miles up to I85 the EPA says the waste transfer station should be 15 - 20 miles from the waste centroid . When I got in my car and drove 13 miles to the centroid or the 12 miles from the Hwy 86 and 140 to the I85 site it was faster . It may be an extra mile but it was faster and I was under the impression in terms of hauling cost driver time is as important as mileage . I would think that an additional highway mile might be cheaper than driving down a country road for a mile less . If we have that subtle a difference, and I ' m not picking sites, but for us to be resting our future on a site that' s based on so subtle a point. Walser states that to answer your question about if Bingham Township would be OK for a wasteAo-energy station, if there were an industrial park there 1 would say bring it on . The area out there is farming large land acreage . There are farmer owners there that have had land in their families for 250 years; a lot of them have had land taken because of Cane Creek . It just doesn' t make sense to change the character of that area when there are other areas of the county that are better suited . Sassaman states that any discussion of whether the waste transfer station should or should not be located in Bingham Township is probably moot because it is not our decision . We have gone on record with what we wanted to see . That is a decision that was made by the Board of Commissioners . The issue of waste-to-energy and priorities is another issue . What I ' m trying to get to is how we deal with garbage . We have a situation where we will have to do something different in two years . We have to do something with the garbage responsibly, ethically, and environmentally in all phases of what we do with it, including recyclimg . We have a commitment to the municipalities . We have an interlocal agreement and my understanding of that is that the County is obligated to provide an in-county disposal site to the Towns . 9