Agenda - Council - 07/29/1985 - Special

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'1 ! I I ! I I I 5 The shortage of daily and final cover (from the South Borrow) for the current licensed landfill operation is not too severe. The amount of soils needed from the Scheduled B area is relatively sm~:l and should not impact too severely on that ares if excavated. Table provides a summary of these soil needs according to data supplied by ~?LM~. Approximately 401 of the available soils in the Schedule B area would ~e needed in order to meet WMM currently licensed needs. The remaining ficiency of middle and top soil final cover could be readily provide~ by soil amendment to other Schedule B soils. TABLE 1 Total Soils Net Shorteg Needed , poils Available Shormg~ Available or.Exces~ Needed Current South [Stock% Sub- Sub- Schedule Licensed Soils For Plan Borrow [piles total total Site 06.300 306,30~ Daily Cover 353,100 46,80{ 177,000 130,200+ Middle Final Cover 96,900 31,900 24,500 56,400 40,50C 36,700 3,800 Top Soil 52,000 48,900 48,900 3,100 3,100- The quantity of soils available from Site P buffer areas are assumed to be too high because WMM has included properties in the buffer area which the County has requested be deleted from the designation. ! i I I I I ISSUES ~q~M estimate of the soil needs for Site P are too low because they have assumed that the site will only need to provide eight inches of inter- mediate cover on a monthly basis (9:1 waste to soil ratio). WMM has assumed that the County would be able to obtain cover from the buffer area of Site P. This is not possible unless we own fee title the buffer. The decision concerning fee title ownership is not contrelled by the County and willnot be known until after site selection. WMM suggests that cover soils needed for Site P could be obtained fro= the property owned by WMM north of the landfill. Since this property is outside of the designated inventory site mining of soils from this property is not guaranteed under the statute. Only properties included in a designated inventory site qualify for zoning override. Also these soils would be more costly than using on-site soils due to increased transportation costs. No justification is provided as to why WMM can not obtain the additional cover needs from the property north of the landfill at this time since they are the owner of this property. I I I Removal of soils from the southerly 80 acres of Site P would cause some problems and raises several issues or concerns. These concerns are as follows: 1. Removal of such soils would effectively remove all or almost all, soil berm screening possibilities for any future landfill operation. Removal of such soils would effectively remove all, or almost all, soils needed for any future landfill operation.