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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 6, 2007 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 6) -q <br />SUBJECT: Site Selection: Orange County Transfer Station <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Eubanks Roads Community <br />Information Meeting <br />2. Site Evaluation Summary <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 <br />PURPOSE: To present findings pertinent to site selection for a proposed Orange County <br />Transfer Station <br />BACKGROUND: The existing landfill on Eubanks Road will reach capacity in 2010, at which <br />time the County will be required to transport its municipal solid waste out-of-county for disposal <br />through the use of a Transfer Station. At the February 8, 2005 joint work session between the <br />County Commissioners and the Solid Waste Advisory Board, the SWAB was asked to look at <br />where a transfer station could be located. At the March 15, 2006 BOCC work session, the <br />SWAB presented a recommendation that a transfer station be sited on existing landfill property <br />on Eubanks Road. <br />Previously, in. 2001, the BOCC had chosen to not authorize the North Eubanks Road site for a <br />future transfer station as part of the Master Plan so as to examine other options. Since the <br />BOCC review of the SWAB recommendation in the spring of 2006, County management and <br />Solid Waste staff have explored alternative waste transfer station options including discussions <br />with Alamance County and the City of Durham. These discussions did not prove successful. <br />At the October 24, 2006 BOCC work session, the Board eliminated further discussion of a City <br />of Durham option and agreed to revisit the issue of a local transfer station location at a future <br />meeting. It was determined that the BOCC would decide from among three options: <br />to locate the site at Eubanks Road <br />to direct the staff to look for another site (Hwy 70 East site, presented by owner) <br />to direct staff to have a public meeting in the landfill neighborhood with direction from the <br />Board as to the parameters of the presentation