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Council wants more info on landfill gas pipeline

Posted on October 1, 2009October 3, 2009 by Staff

By Kirk Ross, Staff Writer

Members of the Chapel Hill Town Council say they’d like to see more details on a plan to run an eight-inch gas pipeline from the county landfill on Eubanks Road to a new generating facility to be built on the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Homestead Road.

The council got a look at the latest plans by UNC to harness methane gas being produced by decomposition at the landfill to use for power needs at Carolina North and UNC’s Facilities Services Complex along Airport Drive.

University architect Anna Wu told the council the university would start by setting up ways to capture the gas. Initially, she said, it will be vented and burned on the site. Once the line is constructed, the gas will be used to power a generation station to be located at the former Duke Power substation off Homestead Road.

Wu said the original plans that called for running the line down Homestead Road would be difficult and asked the council to consider an alternative route that would have the line running along access drives for Homestead Park. Wu said the line would have to be buried about 30 to 36 inches below grade.

Council member Laurin Easthom said she was not comfortable with the new route since it would pass near the backyards of the park’s neighbors and could disrupt activity at the park.

Council members said they also would like to see more detailed maps of where the line would run. The proposal calls for the line initially to run along an easement through part of the Parkside neighborhood.

The university wants to use the new line as part of its effort to reduce its overall carbon footprint.

1 thought on “Council wants more info on landfill gas pipeline”

  1. John Kramer PE says:
    October 1, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    Why don’t they just generate the electricity at the landfill? That would be cheaper and the outcome would be the same.

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