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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 15, 2004 <br />Action Agend <br />Item No. ~-~ <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Landfill Engineering Services Agreement Renewal <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste/Purchasing <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Director, <br />968-2885 <br />Pam Jones, Purchasing Director, 245 <br />2650 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To renew an agreement between the Solid Waste Department and Draper Aden <br />Associates for engineering and consulting services at the Orange County Landfill through <br />December 31, 2007. <br />BACKGROUND: Draper Aden Associates have been providing engineering and consulting <br />services at the landfill since 1991. Ongoing services will include: <br />• The preparation of the annual Closure/Post-closure Cast Estimate for the existing and <br />closed landfill which is essential to prepare the State-mandated annual Financial Assurance <br />Letter to the Division of Solid Waste Management. The fee is estimated to be about $1,000 <br />annually, <br />• The preparation of semiannual detection monitoring reports summarizing the groundwater <br />chemical analyses supplied by Research and Analytical Laboratories, Inc. These State - <br />mandated reports are forwarded to the Division of Solid Waste Management (DSWM), and <br />must be prepared by a licensed geologist, The fee is estimated to be about $12,000. <br />• The DSWM requires that the Landfill Operating Permit be renewed every five years, Permit <br />renewal documents must be submitted to the DSWM no later than December 1, 2005, We <br />estimate that about $10,000 to $15,000 will be expended to prepare the permit renewal <br />documents, <br />• General consulting concerning any landfill or other anticipated solid waste issues that may <br />arise during the year, The Solid Waste Department has historically expended about $6,000 <br />annually for general consulting with this firm, <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: Sufficient funds to cover anticipated expenditures of about $15,000 <br />through June 2005 are available in the approved FY 2004-0,5 Solid Waste/Landfill Operations <br />Fund budget. The permit renewal will be funded in the FY 2005-06 operating budget, <br />