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20 <br /> Orange County Construction and Demolition Landfill. (It should be noted that there is not <br /> sufficient space to collect material at the Bradshaw Quarry Center, and individuals bringing <br /> allowable C&D material to that location will be directed to another Center.) <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: Current conservative estimates are that 20-25% of bulky wastes <br /> delivered to the Waste and Recycling Centers are construction and demolition wastes. Tipping <br /> fees for those materials are estimated to be $75,000-$88,000 per year. Increasing the amount <br /> of allowable construction and demolition wastes may result in the tipping fees paid to outside <br /> vendors to go down $75,000-$88,000 per year resulting <br /> $10,000. <br /> Commissioner McKee said he appreciated the clarification on the cost, and the potential <br /> decrease in anticipated cost. He said he is fine with everything, except the 36 cubit feet. <br /> Commissioner Price said she is unclear on the financial impact, and how the County is <br /> losing money. <br /> Robert Williams said whoever is allowed to dump construction and demolition (C&D) <br /> debris, it is hauled to another entity in Durham, and then the landfill in another County. He said <br /> Orange County is not collecting any fees for that. <br /> Commissioner Price said there are tipping fees of$75,000-88,000, and she asked from <br /> where these fees come. <br /> Robert Williams said Durham has tipping fees of$47.50 per ton, and Orange County <br /> averages 1900 tons of C&D, which is ending up at waste and recycling centers, which is not <br /> allowed. He said if this same amount of C&D is delivered to the Orange County landfill at $42 <br /> per ton, it is a savings of around $11,000. <br /> Commissioner Price asked if the phrase, "per weekend period" could be clarified. <br /> Robert Williams said that means Saturday or Sunday. He said there are more users on <br /> the weekend. <br /> Commissioner Dorosin asked if the photos in the abstract could be explained. He said <br /> the first picture is of truck taken from the back, and the second is a picture of a truck taken from <br /> the side. <br /> Robert Williams said the first picture shows what 36 cubic feet looks like when it is <br /> brought in in the back of an 8 foot pick up truck. He said the second picture shows larger, <br /> oversize objects, which hang over the edge of the truck, but would still be accepted because <br /> one can still see part of truck bed. <br /> Commissioner Dorosin said the abstract says, "36 cubic feet of quantity is equal to 96 <br /> cubic feet of space," and asked if this could be explained. <br /> Robert Williams said 96 cubic feet of space is the space in a 6-foot pick up bed. <br /> Commissioner Marcoplos asked if there could be a C&D dumpster at each Solid Waste <br /> Convenience Center (SWCC), that was policed for amounts, but then dumped into Orange <br /> County's landfill. <br /> Bonnie Hammersley said that is the $10,000 savings to which Robert Williams' referred <br /> in the financial impact. She said SWCC staff would segregate it and send it to the County's <br /> own C&D landfill, as opposed to sending it to Durham. <br /> Robert Williams said with the increase in the number of tons coming into the C&D <br /> Landfill, the useable air space will start to be taken up. He suggested that the Board just keep <br /> this in mind. <br /> Commissioner Greene asked if there is a plan to enforce these limits. <br /> Robert Williams said through staff training and experience. He said staff will have to <br /> judge if a load meets the threshold. <br />