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Show FVe Stes Proposed "Refuse Board Wants iors Fads, Figures By GARY R. BLODGETT FARMINGTON Davis County's refuge resource recovery re-covery board unanimously agreed that more "facts and figures" fi-gures" are needed before a decision de-cision can be reached on a proposed garbage burning plant planned for construction in the north end of the county. FIVE PROPOSED plant sites were presented to the board by the site selection committee at its meeting last Wednesday night in the Commission Com-mission Chambers of the Davis County Courthouse. Woods Cross Mayor Lawrence Lawr-ence Urry said the "Pond Site" near Hill AFB is the number one proposed site by the committee members. Another site north across the street from the number one site is a close second choice, according to Mayor Urry. OTHER SITES include the Cowley property, Wherry property and a site near the south gate of Hill AFB, all located lo-cated in the Layton area. Mayor Urry said that using a point-system of "as many factors fac-tors as possible," the Pond Site adjacent to the base received re-ceived 68 points. The nearby site across the street, 64 points; the Cowley site 58, Hill AFB south gate 51 and the Wherry site, 28. "I THINK we can rule out the Wherry site because the cost to implement a plant here would be at least $3.5 million more than the preferred site (Pond Site)," the mayor said. He also noted that the Hill AFB south gate site would present pre-sent a serious design problem to make it compatible with the base air traffic patterns, and the Cowley site would require additional land acquisition costs and would be harder to adapt (a plant) than the preferred prefer-red Pond Site. It would also require the longest hall of ash (from the plant) to the landfill site. SOME OF the 17 prere-quisits prere-quisits used by the committee to determine their site selections selec-tions included: Proximity to Hill AFB which will be the prime energy market for steam produced by the plant; proximity to other potential energy markets; land acquisition costs; availability of water, sewer and storm sewer; impact on Hill AFB vehicular traffic; access to landfill; zoning problems; alternate land uses; multiple use of the sites (including development de-velopment of parks); impact on traffic patterns of Hill AFB ; project costs; and control of the project at the termination of a 20-year contract with the vendor (plant developer and operator). MIDWAY THROUGH the meeting, Layton Mayor Lewis Shields, board chairman, asked mayors and councilmen who comprise the board, how they feel about a proposed resource re-source recovery plant. "I have the feeling that some board members are not in favor of the plant and would rather remain with the landfill operations used throughout the county. HOWEVER, board members mem-bers who said they and their city councils "are leaning toward to-ward continued landfill operations" opera-tions" are doing so because of lack of information about the proposed plant costs. "If the plant operation is feasible then we would seriously se-riously consider this type of operation." said one mayor. "But to date, we don't have enough facts and figures to prove to me that the resource recovery program is the way to go." THE BOARD agreed that engineer studies for continued landfill operations in both north and south Davis County should be made within the next 30 to 60 days. North Salt Lake Mayor Robert Palmquist suggested, and the board agreed, that a list of pertinent questions should be compiled and then every attempt made to have these questions answered. "We have got to work together as a county with this study." he said. THE BOARD also agreed that despite a garbage burning plant facility, it will be necessary neces-sary to maintain landfill operations opera-tions in the county since not all of the refuse is combustible and there must be a site for burying the ashes (residue from burned materials). Questioned again about the probability of Davis County residents and businesses being ible to provide sufficient enough garbage to warrant a burning plant. County Environmental En-vironmental Health Director Richard Harvey replied: "I'M SURE that we do. Surveys Sur-veys have been conducted recently re-cently and found that about 357 tons per day are going to landfill sites in Davis County. This should be increased to approximately 400 tons per day by the time the proposed plant is operational in 1985." The proposed plant is designed de-signed for 500 tons capacity, but could be expanded to about ab-out 750 tons at a future date. |
