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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board May 7, 2009 Approved June 3, 2009 the convenience centers . Some would reduce the size of their load and go once a week instead of every other week . Wilson adds there has been some abuse of the permit system . They say they need three loads when they need one and let someone else use their permit. 5 . Programs/Services Update Joint Landfill Gas Recovery Project Spire states that the project is moving forward on a fairly fast track . We have received the first preliminary draft of the installation and made our comments back to UNC . There is another meeting next Monday with UNC staff, architects, and engineers to go over the second draft that shows the proposed installation on the landfill . Once the proposed piping is agreed upon we will move on to the permitting and construction. This will hook the gas wells on the north and south sides together and getting them to a flare station on the south side of the road . Once we agree on the piping route, we will proceed on the permitting on that. There have been some good discussions between us and the Town to get the pipeline down to Homestead Road and Martin Luther King Jr . Blvd . and the duct bank down to Carolina North from there . Smith clarifies that it will transport gas to Carolina North . What will they do with it once it gets there ? Spire states that from the gen [erator] set there will be a substation and UNC is in the process of getting permission to put what they call a duct bank of high voltage power transmission line down to Carolina North where it is currently located . It is 1 , 000 kilowatts to be be generated . Smith asks if we are furnishing gas that they will use to make steam to generate electricity . Spire states that they are not looking to generate the steam yet. They are looking specifically at the generation of electricity . There has been talk about capturing the exhaust heat and doing some work with that in the local facilities that may be built around that area . It is a reciprocating engine, not a gas turbine . The generator will be at the old Duke Power facility at Homestead Road and Martin Luther King Jr . Blvd . Norwood states that with the way the world has changed recently there is a concern for security . What security measures will be on site to prevent tampering? Fences, cameras ? Spire states that this site will be heavily fenced where no one could get into it. It has multiple backup systems where it will be on an auto- dialer . If it ' hiccups; and shuts 11