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Page Two Thus, abatement or reduction of our dependence on Iondfills for disposal of mixed munclpol wastes may be needed because of: I. Public attitudes. I I Reduction of Iond available for agricultural or other development. The unsuitable soil conditions present. High water table problems. I I I I I I 5. Long term site maintenance (cover and turf). Long term monitoring and custodial core to assure no problems develop. 7. Degradation of ground water and soils that require remedial action. 8. Cast of remedial octions. Total cost of landfilling (environmental affects). 10. Cast of second generation landfills. The County's abatement report suggests that the County will pursue the application of all appropriate waste reductions, separation, and/or waste processing abatement methods as they logically and rediistically occur in the waste management system. S~me of these, such as source separated curb side pickup, recycling centers, or yard waste compasting, may be better provided by the city or other communit~ group~, whereas, same such as waste processing may be more appropriate for County implementation. The I County, in preparing the abatement report, considered all of the abatement strategies: their advantages, disadvantages, limitations, and implementation capability. It was the County's findings that all of the soft/non-technical i abatement strategies can and should be implemented but that they will have only limited impact in reducing volume of solid waste requiring landfill disposal (possibly 15%). (See Appendix I & I1.) Thus some type of high I I technology/proces_s~ng abatement will be necessc~y to obtain the level of abatement suggested by the 1980 Solid Waste Act. At the time the abatement report was prepczred, it appeared that the mast viable processing alternative was the production and marketing of RDF' (refuse derived fuel) to moderate sized process energy users.