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Show To Ponder Garbage Site By GARY BLODGETT BOUNTIFUL -- City Council members are convinced there "is more than meets the eye" when it comes to alternatives for disposing of waste material of Bountiful residents. THE CONCLUSION was reached after the council heard and discussed a preliminary prelimin-ary study made of the Bay Area Refuse Disposal (BARD) site iri West Bountiful. City Manager Tom Hardy told the council coun-cil that a preliminary study conducted recently re-cently showed that BARD could have a lifespan of "up to 25 years if stacked and packed properly." "THIS IS certainly different than what we have been led to believe," said Mayor Dean S. Stahle. "We have been told in the past that the lifespan of BARD is limited to a matter of months-or a few years at the most -- and now this doesn't seem to be the case." The extended life of BARD, board members mem-bers agree, will depend on the amount of stacking that is done of the garbage that is disposed at the site. "THE HEIGHT of stacking is a matter of choice," said Mr. Hardy. "Just how high does the city want to go?" Councilman Bob Linnell said the site could be stacked with contours of up to 40 feet without difficulty. "Let's start with 40 feet and go from there," he said. COUNCIL members also agreed that with the five percent slope, the contours would be so gradual that the finished site would not be objectionable as long as it is finished and landscaped properly. It was even suggested that trees be planted along the east side of the disposal site, as a buffer to anyone viewing the site from West Bountiful. Presently, the garbage gar-bage disposal site is several hundred yards from the nearest residences. THE STUDY estimated that 75 to 100 cubic yards of fill material will be needed each day to cover the debris. At a cost of $2.50 per cubic yard, the cost for filldirt could exceed $75,000 per year, the council was told. But the council agreed that this cost --since --since Bountiful owns the BARD site --could --could be considerably less than the projected pro-jected cost of paying into a resource recovery recov-ery (garbage burning) plant that is proposed for construction in Layton. BARD HAS been in operation since 12 and covers 150 acres. An additional SO acres was purchased about 10 years ago. The study suggested that some of the filldirt from the 80-acre site could be used on the existing site, but not as regular filldirt. fill-dirt. FILL FOR compacting probably would come from Bountiful's east side, but finishing dirt could be used from adjoining property, the council was told. "Resouce recovery is not the only answer as we might have thought." said Mr. Hardy. "There are fewer problems than we expected with BARD and the study shows the lifespan of the site is much longer than originally anticipated." CITY ENGINEER Jack Balling noted that when finished the site could be used for recreation - such as a golf course, parks or ball diamonds -- but could not be utilized for construction of buildings because of settlement. He also suggested that fill from new construction con-struction sites in the area could be used at BARD. MR. HARDY said BARD's study shows 10 to 12 years of potential use by BARD at the present rate of disposal. "However, if Bountiful were to take over sole use of BARD that lifespan could be more than doubled." The council agreed that "there are more options for garbage disposal by Bountiful residents than were first thought possible." MAYOR STAHLE emphasized that there are still many unanswered questions concerning the proposed resource recovery recov-ery plant. "We don't know the costs for transportation transpor-tation of material from Bountiful to the plant," said the mayor. "And I don't think residents of south Davis County communities communi-ties should be penalized because of the plant's location. Maybe some concessions should be considered for those who have to haul garbage a long distance to the plant." THE COUNCIL agreed that they are still interested in participating in a resource recovery re-covery plant if when the answers are in it is determined that this would be the most feasible and economical solution to garbage gar-bage disposal. "Otherwise, Bountiful would still have the option of continued landfill use of garbage," gar-bage," they said. |