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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> April 2, 2009 <br /> Approved May 7, 2009 <br /> Hill is shown to be closer to the 54 site than Carrboro yet Carrboro is further away <br /> from the vendor sites . The truck speeds are modeled at 40mph which doesn' t make <br /> sense on the higher speed roads . Even Chapel Hill provided estimates that are higher <br /> than [that and] that weren t used . The trucks are designed for short hauling not long <br /> hauling e . g . the Chapel Hill trucks have three operators on the truck and certainly we <br /> wouldn' t send a truck with three operators to Waste Management an hour away . <br /> Taylor states that I haven t had a chance to read that report yet. I know that it has <br /> been said that rail haul is too expensive here but I disagree with that. I think it is a <br /> coming up alternative . I am gathering some figures to present to you from Norfolk <br /> Southern and NC rail road . We have a great resource here that was built for <br /> industrial use over a hundred years ago . With Orange County being the leader of <br /> recycling in the State we need to be the leader in waste disposal also . <br /> Sassaman states that we have talked about rail haul in the past. Where would you site <br /> a waste transfer station that would be amendable to rail haul? You would have to <br /> transfer the garbage to the rail . <br /> Taylor states that there are some sites next to Chapel Hill municipal operations on <br /> Millhouse Rd . There are some that Orange County Voice has found east of <br /> Hillsborough along Mt. Herman Church Rd . , and in Efland . There are several sites <br /> that they have presented but I haven' t had a chance to look at them along the railroad <br /> parallel [to] Hwy 85 . There is the state university railroad in Carrboro there are sites <br /> along there that may be a political hot potato but could be used . If you look at the <br /> advantage rail haul now that could be tied into a eventual regional plan it seems <br /> disingenuous to site a transfer station out on 54 when maybe down the road in 10 <br /> years Duke Energy may be putting one in Durham . I' ve heard that Duke Energy is <br /> thinking about putting in a WtE plant in East Durham Norfolk Southern yard . That <br /> may not be public information yet but people have heard about it as a possibility . If <br /> Raleigh, Wake Forest and other people could come around [to] bring waste to there it <br /> could be a huge regional thing keeping all those trucks off the road . My main thing is <br /> keeping the trucks off the road . <br /> Stan states that the Daily Tarheel on line was talking about the interim transfer <br /> station, I' m concerned that now we have the Howell property, OWASA is not <br /> amendable and for whatever reason the Howell property doesn' t happen where are <br /> we with an interim transfer station here at Eubanks while things are being sorted out. <br /> Wilson states that there will be a part of a large comprehensive report going to the <br /> BOCC on April 21st that will have a sub-report in there listing the options as staff sees <br /> them for contingency transfer . The commissioners will receive that and perhaps make <br /> determinations that night. <br /> 12 <br />