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Minutes - Regular Meeting <br /> Solid Waste Advisory Board <br /> April 2, 2009 <br /> Approved May 7, 2009 <br /> communities . The costs to do additional recycling to further reduce that volume are <br /> o <br /> all going to come with a price and be a little more difficult. <br /> Grunwald asks has anything been found that could come close to fitting the time <br /> frame that we are looking at for closing the landfill aside from the transfer station. <br /> Parker replies no . <br /> Sassaman concurs with what Al Vickers has stated . In all that we have seen, there <br /> seems to be no shortAo -medium term potential solution for WtE . In addition to that, <br /> it is fairly apparent it would be so difficult to site anything in south-central Orange <br /> County that no matter what. We will probably need a waste transfer station . When <br /> we first started this I had high hopes for WtE as a possible solution for our immediate <br /> problem and I still do for the long-term waste disposal options for several reasons . <br /> One it behooves us to be responsible for our own garbage . We have to handle it in an <br /> environmentally and sociologically reasonable fashion and one of those is to do some <br /> form of WtE process either as a stand -alone Orange County system or as a regional <br /> system in which we are a major partner . I ' m not sure that anything that we have seen <br /> yet is the real answer . <br /> Parker states that I do see some things out there that may develop into some good <br /> alternatives . They are not even close at this point. Over the next few years there are <br /> reasons from greenhouse gases to the Obama administration policy on coal burning, <br /> general economics, there are a lot of reasons in my review that make me think there <br /> will be some incentive for the marketplace to come up with some new ideas . <br /> Pollock asks in siting WtE plants are they almost always near a large steam or hot <br /> water load in addition to generating electricity . To be successful do they need co- <br /> generation? <br /> Parker states that most of the times they are not. That is an added benefit if there is <br /> someone who can use the steam . In Maryland, for the replacement facility, the Army <br /> is using the steam and that changes the economics to a more beneficial scenario but <br /> most facilities do not have the benefit of that. <br /> Pollock asks where there are multiple partners in a regional type of arrangement, is <br /> the facility nearest to the largest partner ( s) as opposed to the minority partner (s) . <br /> Parker states that I never really looked at that but that is the case in Maryland <br /> between the two counties . The small county is transporting their waste to the area of <br /> the larger counties . <br /> 5 <br />