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New Transfer Stations and Transfer Vehicles. For cost <br />estimating purposes, the proposed Eight Mile Road transfer <br />station was assumed to be similar in design and operation to <br />the existing California Waste Removal Systems and Lovelace <br />transfer stations. Refuse would be dumped directly onto the <br />floor and pushed by a wheeled loader to a slot in the floor, <br />and then dropped into transfer vehicles waiting on a below - <br />grade ramp. The design capacities of the station were based <br />on the 1990 waste forecasts and adjusted by the assumed <br />destination of public, franchised collectors, and other <br />commercial haulers, as discussed above. The 1990 waste <br />volumes upon which costs were based are as follows: <br />Alternative A.2 150,000 cu yd/yr <br />Alternative C.2 176,000 cu yd/yr <br />Alternative D.2 129,000 cu yd/yr <br />The capital costs developed for the transfer station consist <br />of land acquisition, site development, building, equipment, <br />and engineering and contingency costs. Site development costs <br />include clearing, excavation, grading, paving, and <br />landscaping. Building costs include structures (fabricated <br />steel building), foundations, scale pits, heating and <br />ventilation, lighting, and plumbing. Equipment costs include <br />a scale and a wheeled loader. <br />Operating costs for the transfer station include labor, <br />utilities, maintenance, and overhead based on an 8 -hour day <br />and 7 days per week operation. Labor costs include salaries, <br />administrative overhead, and fringe benefits for one foreman, <br />one gate attendant, and one loader operator. Utility costs <br />are water and sewer charges and electricity for lighting and <br />heating. Maintenance costs are for the building and grounds <br />16 <br />