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Page Nine Hennepin County project at the'NSP Riverside plant. This project might have some impact on that portion of Anoka County south of 1-49/~. Because of the uncertainties as to the status of the Riverside project, feasibility analysis based upon all of Anoka County generated waste is realistic at this time. In implementing a processing facility there are many more barriers which need to be assessed before any decision can be made. These barriers would include consideration of waste flow, waste flow guarantees, impact of other facility districting, capital cost, competition with landfills, policies and metropolitan regional plan, most appropriate and most cost effective processing scheme, facility location, availablity of energy users, and interest of energy users. In order to adequately evaluate which waste processing strategy would be of the greatest benefit to Anoka County, the County should engage the sevices of a qualified engineering firm to undertake a feasibility analysis which would assess all of the factors having a bearing on the selection of a waste processing alternative. In looking at the success and failure of other facilities which have been implemented, it appears that the system success has been due more to the presence of a good sound market for the product being produced than it has been a result of a good or bad technology being used. For this reason, the County probably should direct the engineering review to; I) identify and evaluate, together with the County Board, market opportunities that may exist within the County; 2) evaluate workable abatement processing options that may be available to service these markets; 3) provide guidance for implementation of abatement processing services; and/~) identify restraints to implementation and how these restraints may be overcome. Such abatement processing evaluation should deal primarily with mechanical separation/RDF, waste to energy using ~cambustion units, and incineration by means of combustion units for plant sizes of 350 -SIX) tons per day'and 1,000 - 1,600 tons per day. Evaluation should also include alternative abatement processes that may be compatible with and enhance the basic abatement process being considered. To accomplish the above (County office paper, yard waste composting, municipal technical assistance, processing analysis and evaluations) it is estimated that one staff position and !~4;6,000 -$1 i 1,000 would be needed. (See Appendix !11.)