Agenda - 09-01-20; 8-a - Minutes

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20 1 Orange County Construction and Demolition Landfill. Containers for the allowable construction 2 and demolition waste would be available at the Eubanks, Walnut Grove, High Rock and 3 Ferguson Centers. Materials delivered to the C&D containers would then be delivered to the 4 Orange County Construction and Demolition Landfill. (It should be noted that there is not 5 sufficient space to collect material at the Bradshaw Quarry Center, and individuals bringing 6 allowable C&D material to that location will be directed to another Center.) 7 8 FINANCIAL IMPACT: Current conservative estimates are that 20-25% of bulky wastes 9 delivered to the Waste and Recycling Centers are construction and demolition wastes. Tipping 10 fees for those materials are estimated to be $75,000-$88,000 per year. Increasing the amount 11 of allowable construction and demolition wastes may result in the tipping fees paid to outside 12 vendors to go down $75,000-$88,000 per year resulting 13 $10,000. 14 15 Commissioner McKee said he appreciated the clarification on the cost, and the potential 16 decrease in anticipated cost. He said he is fine with everything, except the 36 cubit feet. 17 Commissioner Price said she is unclear on the financial impact, and how the County is 18 losing money. 19 Robert Williams said whoever is allowed to dump construction and demolition (C&D) 20 debris, it is hauled to another entity in Durham, and then the landfill in another County. He said 21 Orange County is not collecting any fees for that. 22 Commissioner Price said there are tipping fees of$75,000-88,000, and she asked from 23 where these fees come. 24 Robert Williams said Durham has tipping fees of$47.50 per ton, and Orange County 25 averages 1900 tons of C&D, which is ending up at waste and recycling centers, which is not 26 allowed. He said if this same amount of C&D is delivered to the Orange County landfill at $42 27 per ton, it is a savings of around $11,000. 28 Commissioner Price asked if the phrase, "per weekend period" could be clarified. 29 Robert Williams said that means Saturday or Sunday. He said there are more users on 30 the weekend. 31 Commissioner Dorosin asked if the photos in the abstract could be explained. He said 32 the first picture is of truck taken from the back, and the second is a picture of a truck taken from 33 the side. 34 Robert Williams said the first picture shows what 36 cubic feet looks like when it is 35 brought in in the back of an 8 foot pick up truck. He said the second picture shows larger, 36 oversize objects, which hang over the edge of the truck, but would still be accepted because 37 one can still see part of truck bed. 38 Commissioner Dorosin said the abstract says, "36 cubic feet of quantity is equal to 96 39 cubic feet of space," and asked if this could be explained. 40 Robert Williams said 96 cubic feet of space is the space in a 6-foot pick up bed. 41 Commissioner Marcoplos asked if there could be a C&D dumpster at each Solid Waste 42 Convenience Center (SWCC), that was policed for amounts, but then dumped into Orange 43 County's landfill. 44 Bonnie Hammersley said that is the $10,000 savings to which Robert Williams' referred 45 in the financial impact. She said SWCC staff would segregate it and send it to the County's 46 own C&D landfill, as opposed to sending it to Durham. 47 Robert Williams said with the increase in the number of tons coming into the C&D 48 Landfill, the useable air space will start to be taken up. He suggested that the Board just keep 49 this in mind. 50 Commissioner Greene asked if there is a plan to enforce these limits.