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Grant Submittal for NC DPPEA Construction and Demolition Waste Grant Cycle for <br />Year 2000. Category: Source-Separated Recovery. <br />Submitted by Town of Chapel Hill. <br />Blair L. Pollock. October 29, 1999. <br />I have attached the requisite forms completed except where noted that the information is <br />shown on a sepazate sheet of paper. <br />Project Summary: <br />This project will divert unpainted, untreated wood wastes from the construction and <br />demolition azea of the Orange Regional Landfill. Once sepazated, material will be <br />ground up for mazketing as boiler fuel, mulch or beneficial re-use at landfill. We request <br />funds for the cast of grinding the first two loads of wood to be diverted. We estimate that <br />cost at $17,000 for two grinds of $8,500 each processing S00 tons each time. Wood will <br />be diverted by three methods: The Town will contribute 34% in cash and in-kind match. <br />(see budget page) <br />• physical sepazation from mixed waste by landfill staff, led by current salvage <br />specialist, <br />• increased mazketing of the current differential tipping fee of $12 per ton for <br />separated wood waste v. $40 per ton for mixed waste coupled with allowing trucks <br />carrying partial loads of sepazated wood to dump twice - once to discard the wood <br />and a second time for the waste to eliminate the disadvantage of separate hauling for <br />wood waste. We may add a double tip fee penalty for loads containing construction <br />wood, as we now have for yazd waste. <br />• encouraging haulers bringing in mixed loads that are identified as primarily wood to <br />dump in a special diversion area where non-woad material will be separated out and <br />wood added to the pile. <br />From previous waste sorts, we believe about 20% of the current Orange Regional <br />Landfill C&D waste or 6,000 tons is clean wood. We believe that one-quarter to <br />one- half of this maybe recoverable. <br />