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Costs <br />Orange County would experience a temporary loss of tipping fee revenue. The haulers would incur <br />additional hauling costs to the Durham transfer facility. <br />B. Placing_C &D in MSW Landfill for the Duration of MSW Capacity <br />This option assumes that the BOCC directs that C &D wastes be placed in the MSW facility until the <br />MSW facility reaches capacity. It also assumes that prior to capacity being reached, that a long <br />term solution for both C &D and MSW is formulated and implemented. <br />If, as is our understanding, the long term solution for managing MSW is to develop a transfer <br />station, then it is our recommendation that we quickley begin the transfer station development <br />process, including the necessary first step of formally selecting a site. As previously stated, we <br />estimate that for each two months of C &D waste going to the MSW facility, we would lose about <br />one month of MSW capacity. This estimation results from current C &D tonnages operating at <br />about half of the MSW tonnages. <br />Key Issues <br />* each two months C &D is diverted to the MSW area we would loose one month <br />(approximately) of MSW life <br />* the lined landfill is permitted to receive C &D wastes <br />* there would be no disruption of local disposal service <br />* there would be no illegal dumping or other potential negative repercussions of not having <br />local disposal options <br />* there would be some reduction in C &D salvage opportunities <br />* MSW landfill would reach capacity in 2004 rather than the currently estimated 2006 <br />* preparations for the development of a transfer station must be advanced to become a <br />current priority <br />* the current transfer station financing scheme must be revisited <br />Costs <br />There are important costs considerations associated with this option. <br />By advancing the need to begin development of a transfer station, we must reexamine the current <br />financing strategy of paying for the facility from a reserve fund that is currently scheduled to have <br />the funds for the facility on hand in FY 2005/06 rather than 2003 /04. The new schedule would <br />leave us about $1,225,000 deficient in this reserve fund. Significant adjustments in the landfill fund <br />reserve fund would be necessary in order to fully fund a transfer station in 2004. Please see also the <br />earlier discussion regarding the relative values of C &D and MSW air space. <br />12 <br />