
{"id":5218,"date":"2009-03-19T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2009-03-19T06:55:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T14:55:46","slug":"county-waste-plans-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/03\/19\/county-waste-plans-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"County solid waste plans moving forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5223\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/waste031909.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/waste031909-300x225.jpg\"  title=\"waste031909\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/waste031909-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/waste031909.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange County Solid Waste Services director Gayle Wilson listens to a question at a meeting last Sunday of Preserve Rural Orange at the White Cross Recreation Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<em>By Kirk Ross<br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although the fervor of opposition to a solid-waste transfer station proposed for southwestern Orange County has not waned, the tone at a recent meeting on the matter was low key as residents peppered the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top solid-waste management official with questions on the plans.<\/p>\n<p>Gayle Wilson, Orange County Solid Waste Management director, fielded questions from about 40 residents for about an hour Sunday evening at the White Cross Recreation Center. The informational meeting, called by members of Preserve Rural Orange, offered Wilson the opportunity to explain the progression of decisions made in the 1990s \u00e2\u20ac\u201d including the abandonment of an effort to find a new landfill within the county \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and how they presaged plans for a waste transfer station.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Asked by resident Wes Lachot why the county, which has been so proactive about recycling and waste reduction, settled on a plan that would send its waste to another community, Wilson was blunt. The political will to site a landfill in the county was not there, he said. Given the response to<\/p>\n<p>the transfer station, he said, you can imagine the response if the land being studied for the waste station \u00e2\u20ac\u201d at one time on the list of possible sites for a landfill \u00e2\u20ac\u201d had been proposed as a new landfill site.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson also assured residents that the county could control how its contractors would truck the waste out of county once it had been loaded on semi trucks. He said a rumor that the trucks would use Orange Grove Road to get to I-40 was not true. He did acknowledge that the Town of Hillsborough would likely use Orange Grove Road, but noted that they are the smallest municipal user of the landfill and would send no more than three trucks per day to the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Wilson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Q&#038;A, organizers for Preserve Rural Orange outlined their efforts to convince commissioners to change their minds about locating the waste transfer station on a 147-acre parcel just off N.C. 54 west of Orange Grove Road. An adjacent parcel, owned by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority, was picked by the county as an alternative site.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Streitfeld said her recent trip with commissioners and county officials to a waste transfer station in Greensboro had not convinced her that a similar facility would work in the White Cross area.<\/p>\n<p>The Greensboro facility was located in an industrial area surrounded by oil tanks. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t change my mind on how it would fit in our community,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Streitfeld said Preserve Rural Orange is asking for the commissioners to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153take a step back\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and create an interim plan that would give the county more time to study what to do with its garbage. She also noted that members of Orange County Voice, another organization opposed to the waste transfer station site, continue to raise funds for possible litigation aimed at stopping the facility.<br \/>\nIn an interview Wednesday with The Citizen, Wilson said he expects to have more information on proposals that are part of a parallel track created by the commissioners at the urging of residents to study alternatives to a county-operated solid-waste facility.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said that at a special meeting March 31 of the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Solid Waste Advisory Board, a report will be presented that looks into the cost of having commercial firms haul garbage to existing waste transfer stations in Research Triangle Park and in the City of Durham near Club Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>On April 2, the advisory board will meet again to review a cost analysis for alternative technologies for eliminating waste, such as incineration.<\/p>\n<p>A report on the alternatives along with assessments on the N.C. 54 waste transfer sites and an updated cost projection for a new facility are scheduled to be presented to the board of county commissioners on April 21.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said he also plans to update commissioners on discussions with other counties and the City of Durham about a regional solution for garbage.<\/p>\n<p>But after preliminary discussions, Wilson said he has not found anyone eager to study a joint project. So far, he said, no one is willing to consider new technologies, such as high-temperature incineration or a waste-to-energy facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Although the fervor of opposition to a solid-waste transfer station proposed for southwestern Orange County has not waned, the tone at a recent meeting on the matter was low key as residents peppered the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top solid-waste management official with questions on the plans. 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