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Transfer station site rules set

Posted on May 23, 2008 by Staff

By Taylor Sisk
Staff Writer

At a work session held before Tuesday night’s Orange County Board of Commissioners meeting at the Southern Human Services Center, the board approved exclusionary criteria to guide it in its search for a site for a solid-waste transfer station.

The board heard from Ed Shuffler and Bob Sallach of Olver Inc. as it nailed down the final wording of the exclusionary criteria. Olver is the consulting firm hired by the county to establish criteria, conduct the search and advise the commissioners on the selection of a site.

The exclusionary criteria approved by the board require the transfer station to be within three miles of one of the county’s major roads and within 12 miles of the projected waste-generation “centroid,” the area determined to be the geographical center of the county’s waste generation.

Protected sites of historical, archeological or cultural significance will be excluded from the search. Also excluded are sites with protected watersheds, wetlands and flood plains or endangered and protected flora and fauna; those with steep topographies; and sites with county-owned lands or easements designated for preservation.

Once a list of potential sites is assembled, technical criteria will be established and weighted. Technical criteria typically include such considerations as traffic compatibility, room to expand and access to utilities.

The potential sites on that list will then be ranked and the number narrowed to a final list. At that point, community-specific criteria – which include environmental justice concerns – will be taken into consideration.

Those remaining sites will then be ranked, further public input solicited and a final ranking established. The board of commissioners is scheduled to make its decision in November.

Last spring, the board voted to site the transfer station on Eubanks Road, then in November announced it was reopening the search, though Eubanks remains under consideration.

Members of the citizen’s group Coalition to End Environmental Racism (CEER) have argued that Eubanks Road should be taken out of consideration as a potential transfer station site under federally established principles of environmental justice. Eubanks has been the site of the Orange County Landfill for more than 35 years.

During Tuesday night’s work session, Rev. Robert Campbell of CEER again asked that the Eubanks site be removed from consideration.

(A Carrboro Citizen series on the Rogers-Eubanks community and environemtnal justice is at www.carrborocitizen.com/main/rogers-road.)

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