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TABLE 2-1 <br /> <br />Compost Facility Component <br /> <br />Composting Area <br />Tipping Area <br />Curing Area <br />Drainage & Buffer <br /> <br />Size <br /> <br />14.5 <br /> 1.0 <br /> 3.4 <br />14.5 <br /> <br />Total 33.4 Acres <br /> <br />Vehicles delivering, compost to the facility will be directed <br />through the use of signs to proceed to the landfill office. <br />Vehicles delivering yard waste in bulk (in excess of pick-up truck <br />loads) will be weighed on the landfill scale and charged by the <br />ton. Two different rates will be charged depending on whether or <br />not the load contains bagged or loose yard waste. Mixed loads <br />containing both bagged and debagged waste will be charged the <br />bagged rate. Private vehicles and small trailers will be charged <br />by the bag or by the cubic yard depending upon whether the load is <br />bagged or not. All loads will be required to be covered or they <br />will be charged double. Rate information will be posted at the <br />landfill office visible to the public. <br /> <br />Upon a determination of the load type (bagged or debagged) by <br />landfill personnel the customer will be directed to the composting <br />tipping area. Additional signs will be located along access roads <br />providing additional directions to the yard waste tipping area. <br />Upon arrival at the tipping area the customer will be directed <br />where to unload through the use of signs or by WMMI personnel. Two <br />unloading areas will be provided, one for bagged yard waste and a <br />second for debagged waste. An additional area will be designated <br />for tree prunings. In the tipping area landfill personnel will <br />operate a debagging machine. All plastic bags will be removed <br />before the waste is placed in windrows. Tree prunings will be <br />chipped on an as needed basis. <br /> <br />WMMI anticipates operating this site using low-level technology. <br />The composting methodology that will be used is that developed by <br />Rutgers University. Under this method windrows will be formed in <br />the fall out of the yard waste. Yard waste will be picked up in <br />a loader bucket and water will be added as needed to each bucket <br />to provide the proper moisture content. Two windrows will be <br />formed with approximately 2 feet of separation between them. Each <br />windrow will be approximately 25 feet wide at the base and 10 feet <br />high. Windrow sizes up to 40 feet wide and 12 feet high have been <br />used successfully at a compost site located in Ramsey County, this <br />same facility also operates without adding water, moisture is added <br /> <br /> <br />