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Th.51-kion aeco.d Mondor 17--ber 3.1994 7 Tires just a matter of how you handle "If you want to dance, you've After almost two years of gravel pit near Tracy and began TIMM it t got to pay the piper." presentations by other the Collet' shredding. -when they're Finished cooking, (Corlwxd tram Page 1) Louis Thanes, deputy director Royster said he became 101`3 of the shredders and other Though times are tough,all Is the residue is about the consls- He said the Phllbin qre ymrd in o! [he piamm�g division of the involved in the disposal problem machines supposed m dbpose of rip test. lency of No.B motor oil,"he said. tvnlley In Slanslaus County has County Planning Department. in 1919 when a tire collector old tires. Royster had a lire tie itfll has an Idea,one that "A ton of tires produces loo BTUs more conn 90 million ;ices. saw the county will meet with rented some of his land In Fre• shredder of his own deign built in may tread new ground, of oil•carbon black and a left over more urn yard In inion d City Royster in January to negotiate a mom and out 50,000 tires on the Michigan and shipped to Fremont. After three years of travel and residue of steel from the fire anothas three or foot mutton and stltlemml of their dispute over property in leis than a month. After It arrived, Roysler m,,mTem. he mys. he may have belt&" there are other yards a1`ound the what the yard wtfl do with It's He said he went to the collector dispatched most of his Bay Area found a way of disposing of the Ile slid That he decided that he state with the some problem. tires until the machine s pea and asked him to get rid of the tire coilectlon and sold the chips fires, had to become his own customer "'Ahad do you do with tires? f��' tires. but the men disappeared to the l.ouivana-Pacific plant In '•!n Octpber,I saw an operation and building a pyroiyss machine They're mol biodegradable. You "tie's going In the right direr• and left him with the tires and no Antioch. that will work and out the tires will let him take while fit"and can't horn them in the open.and If tton." Thanes =to. "What were Idea how to get rid of them. Despite his ezperlenee-Royster back Into a useful form.and that convert them into electricity. you bury them.they a!loaf to the trying to do is to make something "1 suddenly bean me aware that was still Interested in the [Ire ❑es energy,"he smd.-A pyrolysis "Sly current plan s 10 build m everybody can live with. no one wanted 50.000 tires." he disposal business. He bought The ;machine will decom a the tires prnlm, 1 wrince of the ground eventually." "In tee end,It's going to be up to said. "The dump wouldn t take Schomem the rd from W.T.Jar. Pe Pr• P sirs In Anderson, In some amontls in the FFast. 4 R ny,with hen mem—cooking them mC.id.' out ride of Ruddier," he :hat's already happening,hessid the supervisors to decade whether itthis them.that One'.vented them.I rear pian d Tracy in Feb. 1987 aro _with neat^ said.t have building Tire there and "It may not happen In cur lite- they'+rant to continue to 011 this coned Thal mere had to De other moved hos family 10 San Joaquin Royster said the tires are put an eaistlnq buddinG woh a wood thong up with torn until we can people in the same position,so I County. Into a large container and heated ai 1 to lire ti the boiler rts notes. but eventually those tires R pP Y P P we've buried w11I reappear. Roy- rind a way of disposing of them or started looking for a way to Ile brought the rest Of the tires to between 1`50 and 900 degrees cess.If It•works,we can build one do we want to hall it now. dispose of tires." from Fremont to the 14to-12-acre and then conked from eight to len down sere In owe or three years." sty said. —_ —.__— _ _. _ _ So while he tries to come up _ wish a way to dispose m his eafnn- stve runner empire, tie finds the San Joaquin County Planning Commission breathing down his neck. The county Is concerned with the possibility of fires and radicals and mmquilos who might use the rubber one as a breeding ground. The County also doe!n t 'went to see the tore yard growing into a ,Mount Everett Of runber. The county use permit allows Rovster to operate the tire yard— but with m number of conditions On the operlion. The rnndllomr, msk for annual review oo uctermme whether fire prevemlon, air pollution, rodent control and other n.,mnce con- trol mensuree n. are being take The condition Royster opposes most is one chat abets him to out the tires in 50•by-50.folt pilm separated by 204cot-wide fire lanes. _.Tracy Rural'Flre Dcpnrtment Chief.Inmr Hugh s,atpPnrts the resmetion because of tires that occurred on the Property in 1982 and 190.1. "We had two big fires, before Royster bought the property" Hughes mid."The last time.a car involved in a chase went on the property and ended up in the high grass Ord the car's catalytic con- erter started a Fire chat spread to the tires. 'tie spent al most five days ligating the thing.' Hughos did admn that the sdua- clan bas changed with Roysters OwrI I of the property. "Vo One has access like cher used to." he said. ""'wo million ures could be hard to light on fire. but you never know. If it every cattle.it11 De a heck of a hazard .Ali you can d0 i5 Dump water in and watt for the rife to burn Itself Out" Tom Horton. San Joaquin County solid waste manager•said shredding[he ures was the best way to store the tires and prevent Fuge.smoKy lire fires. "Tbe shredded tire3 just smolder•" he said "However. shredding also slops the Owner's hedge in the Nture- It's not economically feasible to shred the tires If;here's a way of disposing of [he ares [hat might bong a greater profit later on." Rovsler mss the countvs fear of a ore fire on the property ts unlouncea_ Tires don't catch rice bv spon- mneous combustion." rte said "Tires have to oe tit on fire aid a match wont do it we Tave some- One on the pro Oerty at all times to prevent that kind of smndaum- s We're out in the country and you I Save to"am gel out mere to get to the yard.The safety is there.Its