Herald & Lantern 23 January '85 3

MUA Eyes 3 Burn Sites

SWAINTON - 'Three sites for a waste-to-energy resource recovery facility (incinerator) are still under active consideration by the county MUA following preliminary analysis i by the authority's consulting engineers, a joint venture involving Sanders and Thomas, Inc. and Roy i F. Weston Co. Among the eight loca- i tions originally reviewed, only the new county landfill ; in Woodbine, the transfer | station on Shunpike Road ; in Middle Township, and a i site in Rio Grande (at i Railroad Avenue north of Route 47) remain to ; receive further study. According to Ted O'Neill, MUA solid waste manager, > the three remaining sites < have the least negative ] factors. Five other locations that i were dropped from con- i sideration after ] preliminary analysis show- 1 ed they had significant < flaws include the County | Airport Industrial Park, < Erma ; Lower Township < MUA wastewater treatment plant. Villas; Cape < May Coast Guard Base; j

the former HarbisonWalker plant in Lower Township, and Crest Haven, Middle Township. "The sites in the southernmost part of the county had access and location disadvantages," O'Neill said. •THE CONSULTANTS concluded the HarbisonWalker location was not central to the county's waste generation, had poor access, had a water supply problem, and would create a difficult truck and bridge, traffic problem" O'Neill stated. The same disadvantages applied to the Coast Guard Base. The federal Aviation Agency's clear air requirements prohibit the use of the Airport Industrial Park and the Lower Township MUA sites. The consultants' report stated that although the Crest Haven Site is centrally located in the county, access to the area and the traffic flow patterns, create significant disadvantages. George Marinakis, MUA executive director, said the authority was working

toward satisfying the Board of Chosen Freeholders' timetable to have a plant operating in 1988. "The Pinelands Commission's permit, that allowed the CMCMUA to build and operate the landfill, and the county's solid waste management plan require us to have a resource recovery facility operating before 1990. "The goal of a waste-to-energy resource recovery operation is to incinerate solid waste to generate electric power and to produce steam that can be marketed The result should be very positive. It reduces the volume that must be disposed of in a landfill," Marinakis explained. He said the Woodbine Developmental Center had been identified as one of the potential users of the steam, and the Atlantic Electric Co. is required to purchase the electric power generated. MUA officials estimate it will take two years to construct the plant in addition to the year required to obtain the necessary permits. The next steps are to conduct more detailed studies of utilities services, local road access and interconnection points with Atlantic Electric. The authority will recommend the best of these sites to the Freeholders for adoption into the county Solid Waste Plan, prior to detailed design and construction. After receiving freeholder approval, the plant could be under design

this spring with construction ih the fall of 1986. "The system must serve the solid waste needs of the entire county and must provide a stable, reliable disposal method that is as cost effective as possible," O'Neill said. The authority's immediate task is to determine whether to build a single county -wide 400-ton-a-day plant or two plants handling 200 tons a day. "The landfill location is the only one of the three that could accommodate the single regional 400 ton per day plant," O'Neill stated. "The transfer station and Rio Grande Railroad Avenue sites are under active study as potential locations for a smaller sub-regional plant to serve the southern county municipalities now being served by the MUA transfer station."

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