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ORANGE COONTV <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: October 1, 2001 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 2 <br />SUBJECT: Solid Waste Facilities Master Plan <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />2!7/01 BOCC Resolution of Intent <br />9Ifi/01 Staff Mamo re: Solltl Waste <br />Facilities Master Plan <br />Proposed Resolution Entlominq <br />Implementation of Master Plan <br />Site/Facility Conceptual Drewings <br />(Figures 1-9) <br />C8D Landfill Buller Landscape Plan <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson 968-2885 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968.6561 <br />Durham 668-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2D31 <br />PURPOSE: To presents comprehensive solid waste faciltiea conceptual development plan for <br />Board of Commissioners'rgnsitlemtlon and endorsement. <br />BACKGROUND: The Board of Commissioners' requested that staff prepare a solid waste <br />facility development plan that will enable the Board to consider possible locations fora number <br />of imminent end future solid waste facilities. The plan focuses primarily on currently owned and <br />utilized property on Eubanks Road and speci8wlly excludes utilieation of the Greene Trac[for <br />solid waste purposes. As previously discussed with [he BoeM, the plan assumes the need to <br />acquire approximately 18 acres of adjacent propedy for development of anew mnafmction and <br />demolition (G&D) waste disposal facility. <br />For organiu[ional purposes[he plan is divided into four phases (not In order of pdodty). Phase <br />I includes the C&D land811 and recycling facilities, and reflects guidance from the Board related <br />to their adoption in February 2601 of a resolution df intent to proceed with this project following <br />appropriate planning and design. Phase II includes new tlepadmental administrative offices. <br />Phase 111 includes the future trensferstatbn. Phase lV includes the location fora battery and <br />electronics storage facility, a possible location fora relocated recyclable processing pad, and a <br />po[entialemergency stone debris management area. <br />Staff believes it cdficel for the Board of Commissioners to make decisions soon regarding the <br />proposed facilities plan because of the need to: <br />• proceed to tlevelcp the C8D landfill and recycling facilities <br />• relocate the administrative offices.and <br />• proceed with implementation of the electronics and dry cell battery recycling program <br />