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Executive Summary Construction and Demolition Waste Materials Management This report provides information about the current state of construction and demolition waste management in Orange County, describes past studies and staff reports undertaken on C &D both in the County and regionally, and outlines key issues regarding options for future C &D management. The report is primarily descriptive with no specific staff recommendations from among the options described. We believe that the Board of Commissioners is at a critical juncture regarding management of construction and demolition waste in Orange County and moving towards concrete decisions at this time on management of C &D would greatly assist both short and long -term planning for siting, financing and designing any equipment and facilities that would be used in C &D management. Development of policy tools that would complement the strategies selected to physically manage C &D could also begin as decisions are made on facilities. For each of the management choices for C &D we have outlined the key issues and associated costs. The options are grouped as short-term disposal (Chapter 2), long -term disposal (Chapter 3) and reduction/recycling options (Chapter 4). The cost estimates are general and the key issues presented in a bullet form to highlight important points. We await guidance from the Board before providing detailed analysis of specific options. The staff has recently completed an engineering analysis of the current C &D site at Eubanks Road and determined that is feasible to raise the height of the current working area by 18 — 20 feet with no detriment to operations, surrounding aesthetics or the environment. We plan, if there are no objections, to submit our permit application to the State for this vertical expansion. We estimate a gain of up to eighteen months of C &D landfill space by this expansion while remaining below the treeline and lower than the finished grade for the MSW landfill on the south side. While this vertical expansion, if approved by the State, buys us valuable time for planning, siting and designing any new facilities, we believe it is wise to continue with the C &D management decision - making process now underway. The options described in this report can be broken into two general categories — management of C &D that must be buried and methods for recycling, reusing and reducing the amount of C &D destined for landfilling. The categories complement each other. We believe this County would be well - served by implementing a comprehensive, integrated approach to C &D management that combines policy and fiscal tools to encourage reduction of C &D generation, a means and location to recycle and process C &D that has markets or can be reused, and a secure, final destination or transfer station to manage what cannot be reduced, reused or recycled.