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13 The major benefit to the County would be the ability to extend the life of the County's Eubatils Landfill. This benefit would provide the County with an alternative disposal site under the County's direct control should the County not be able to secure cost-competitive disposal prices for remote disposal services in the future. To implement this option, the Cotmry would have to "fast track" Che implementation of a temporary transfer station at the Eubanks Road L,andS(1 as well as procure hauling services fiom the Eubmtks Transfer Station to the Alamance County Landfill In addition, Alamance County would have to secure a permit modification to dispose of Orange County's waste and both Orange and Alamance County would have to modify their three-year solid waste management plans to include this alternative Finally, it should be noted drat, under this option, Orange County could not just shelve disposal operations at the Eubanks Road Landfill but would have to dispose of at least a minimal amount of waste each month at fhe landfill in order to avoid die regulatory requirentettt fo initiate closure activities within 30 days of the receipt of the lasC load of waste. As shown in Figure 1, Olver estimates drat it would require approximately 27 mmtths to accomplish these tasks, As a result, the earliest timefrante that the County could begin Co transfer MSW to Alamance County would be in early 2008 Therefore, this option would enable die County to "bank" a maximum of Z.5 years of disposal capacity at the Eubanks Road Landfill assuming adherence to the fast hack schedule. It should be noted that some of this banked disposal capacity would have to be utilized during the hansfer service disruptions Yltat would be caused by the construction of the permanent transfer statiou on the same site as the temporary transfer station. A preliminary economic analysis of fhe costs associated with the County's utilizatiat of the Alamance County Landfill, as well as a regional private ]andfilh is provided in Table L IC should be noted that the hauling and disposal costs presented in this table ate based on achral bid prices received by the City of Greensboro in March 2005. TABLE 2 Preliminary Economic Analysis of Remote Disposal Alternatives Parameter Orange County Alamance County Upper Piedmont Environmental Republic Uwharrie Landfill Landfill ' Landfill Landfill Distance: One-Way 0 17 50 119 Round Trip 0 34 100 238 Haul Prices 2.88 2.88 1.68 Transfer - - 7.50 7.50 $7.50 Haut - 4.90 14.41 20.03 Disposal $46.00 36.00 22.00 $19.00 TOTAL $46.00 48.40 43.91 46.53 Assumes ZO•ton payload. Haul and disposal prices based on bids received by the City of Greensboro in March 2D05 and have been increased by 1 D% to reflect recent increases in fuel costs. Prices are in units of "Dollars Per Round-Trip Mile." As indicated in Table 2, if Orange County is charged the current disposal rate of $36 per ton by Alamance County, it will cost the County Wrote to dispose of MSW at the Alamance County Landfill than at the County's Eubanks Road Landfill. In addition, it appears that the disposal of the County's MSW at a remote private landfill such as the Republic Uwharrie Landfill may be more economical than the utilization of the Alamance County Landfill t The Uwharrie Landfill owned and operated by Republic Services is used in this case for illustration purposes only. Orange County Page 5 of 6 09/Z2/05