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Show V t I Clearfield Chamber Luncheon At Bowery MR. MEHELICH explained high cost of land fill disposal By ROSELYN KIRK Davis County Commissioners said they would think about participating in a solid waste recovery proposal being initiated by Salt Lake County. They asked representatives of Williams Brothers Urban Ore Inc., a Tulsa, Oklahoma based company, to present the proposal at the Bay Area Refuse Disposal (BARD) meeting later this month. That board regulates refuse disposal in the south end of the county. THE COMMISSION also instructed Rich Harvey, administrator of Environmental Health in the county to begin a systematic weighing of waste at the two sites of refuse disposal in an effort to see whether it would be economically feasible for Davis County to participate in the project. Don Mehelich, project development manager for William Brothers, and Don Spencer, Salt Lake County director of public works, presented the proposal to Davis County Commissioners late last week. The company has developed a system where solid waste could be processed and sold as refuse dry fuel for power generation. COMMISSIONERS appeared to be most interested in participating with Salt Lake County to relieve solid waste disposal in the south end of the county. Commissioner Glen Flint explained that refuse disposal in Davis County is administered by two boards. The North Davis refuse district controls waste disposal problems in the ten cities north of Farmington and BARD which considers problems at the south end of the county. PRESENT time, a landfill type disposal system is provided in which a solid waste disposal site for northern cities is located east of Hill Air Force Base and south of Pages Lane in Centerville for cities on the south. Mr. Spencer said Salt Lake County was interested in an investigation to see whether it would be feasible to set up a transfer area in Davis County to transport the refuse to a plant which would be located in Salt Lake County. AT THE HE SAID at present Salt Lake County is identifying total waste in both the incorporated and unincorporated areas of Salt Lake County to determine what quantity of waste is needed to make the plant feasible. Mr. Spencer said that if Davis County could provide information by weighing all waste that is dumped at the landfill, by either private or commercial vehicles, experts could determine whether it would be feasible to ask Davis County to join with the project. advance. Call your reservations in early. The number to between the call is hours of 1 and 4 p.m. The next luncheon meeting that the sites has county participate since the county has available 193 acres east of Hill Field as a land fill facility for solid waste. At present only about 15 acres of that site have been caused cities throughout the country to adopt similar proposals where solid waste is transported to a central plant, ground up and processed and finally transformed into refuse dry fuel which is sold for power generation. He said the company and Salt Lake County officials have been negotiating with Utah Power and Light who seem to look favorably on the idea of purchasing the fuel, if and when the fuel is available. the plant can be constructed and located in an area where they are aesthetically acceptable to the surrounding area. He pointed out that a plant in Ames, Iowa is located across the street from a residential development and there have been no complaints. used. Mr. Mehelich said the plant would probably be funded by tax exempt revenue bonds. He indicated that Davis County will have to make a decision about whether they want to participate prior to the construction of the plant. JOSEPH MOORE, Davis County planning director, said the county has conducted some data on the volume of solid waste dumped at the plants, but officials said more data would be necessary in order to determine the feasibility. Mr. Mehelich said that the advantages to the resource recovery plan is a drastic reduction in the land necessary for landfill refuse disposal. The plan is environmentally and ecologically more acceptable, as well as producing refuse dry fuel which has a lower sulphur content than coal, he said. ACCORDING to Mr. Mehelich, 75 percent of the solid waste is organic and six percent is made up of tin cans, which have value because of their ferris metal content. While he estimated that the cost of a plant in the Salt Lake area would run between 15 and 20 million, he said that income would be derived from the sale of fuel, the sale of the recovered ferris and a tipping fee, which would be charged to commercial or private companies, who would pay to dump their garbage at the site. Mr. Spencer said the target figure set to dump garbage would probably be in the neighborhood of $4 a ton. Six to eight tons of garbage are carried on an average garbage truck. (WFRC) suggested that eventually County might want to transport from the south end of the county Salt Lake Plant and from the north the county to Weber County. ffElS County, transportation costs could be saved since garbage trucks are making more runs to the landfill sites than would be necessary to reach the transfer sites. Mr. Mehelich stated that once the tests are completed and the project is initiated, that the operation can begin in 36 months. He estimated the Salt Lake plant could begin operation in 1980. Davis waste to the end of COMMISSIONER Wendell Zaugg, If it will avoid pollution of the land, Im for it. The proponents of the refuse dry fuel plan will meet with the six mayors who made up the advisory board of the BARD. They will present the proposal at 5:30 on' Sept. 27 in the council room of the Bountiful City administration building. As chairman of the Emergency Medical Services of Davis County, I would like to ACCORDING to Mr. Harvey, the State Division of Health has instructed the Davis County Environmental Health Department to provide for a plan for waste disposal. The county must demonstrate that ground water is not being polluted by the county method of disposing of solid waste. He said the county health department has determined that the ground water is not polluted, but has not made tests to determine whether e waste disposal is affecting water. Commissioner Glen Flint said he felt the county should give the proposal a test. At present each family in Davis County pays 50 cents each month or $6 a year for disposal costs. Mr. Spencer estimated that costs, if the county goes with the fuel recovery system, would be comparable. The average family deposits about one ton of solid waste per year at disposal sites. congratulate the twenty firemen who have completed their training in crash-injur- y management. They are highly skilled volunteers who are performing a vital service to the members of their community. I would like to clarify a statement made in your article of Aug. A 1977, entitled "Emergency Call in which the training received by these volunteers was described as the same as received by paramedics. It should be pointed out that the paramedics we have operating in the north portion of Davis County are actually extensions of the emergency room and physicians of this county. They have direct communication with the doctors and have developed skills requiring extensive training in various areas of medicine as well as crash management. COMMISSIONER Flint pointed out that Davis County probably would not be as interested in having the north end of the Parkway. A tour of the ties will be provided by Paul Lindley, manager. The office hours of the Chamber of Commerce have been temporarily changed. Until further notice, the office will be open in the afternoons, from p.m. weekdays. 4 Automatic draft Orville R. DeVore of Clearfield has been cited at Hill AFB for developing a safety on remotely control machines in the machine shop. 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SPENCER said that in Salt Lake for the Chamber of Commerce of Clearfield will be held at the Center Street IN ADDITION, the transfer stations and Bums 14 hours on mc liiiioi I 552 W. 500 So., Bountiful-295-220- MODEL C --- el Factory reconditioned with this cooperative program of first responders and paramedics, the medical community and, in particular, the public will benefit and it will result in the saving of many lives and improve 13-882- AM Rugged, quiet mobile unit - ANL - noise blanker external CB switch delta tuning antenna warning light - high-levmodulation system - maximum legal power. paramedics or doctor arrives. Emergency medical care is now being given to people on the road, in the home, or on the farm, wherever the accident occurs. In order to stabilize and treat these victims early rather than make mad rushes to the hospitals in ambulances. sure 3 CEB' they do this not until a doctor or ambulance arrives as was written but until the health care throughout this county. 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