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Mr. Tom Horton Project 939-02.22 January 25, 1990 Page 9 Proposed NCSL Recycling Facilities: San Joaquin County must be positioned with tools necessary to meet the goals of the ISWMA and to provide an expandable integrated recycling facility. Preliminary planning of recycling facilities at the NCSL has included a general materials processing area and a composting area. Phase I - Initial Materials Processing The Phase I design for the proposed materials processing area is primarily focused on labor intensive sorting and flexibility. The following general criteria were incorporated into the design: 1. The tipping areas for public and commercial vehicles are physically separated to ensure the safety of the public. 2. Annual growth and seasonal and weekday fluctuations are known to exist and facilities have been designed to provide an adequate level of service during peak traffic volume periods. 3. To achieve the highest level of recycling possible, all loads must eventually be processed for materials recovery. 4. All loads may be contaminated and therefore must be processed for contaminant removal. The proposed facility consists of a straight tipping wall and a transfer trailer load- out bay at one end of a 180 feet by 150 feet sorting building (Figure 1). Laborers within the sorting building will hand pick recyclable materials and place them in storage containers by material classification. A front end loader will assist the operation by spreading the refuse in a thin layer for sorting and loading reject material into the transfer trailer. The hand-picking process may be enhanced by adding a portable conveyor/picking line. This unit would be placed within the sorting building so that reject material would fall from the end of the conveyor into the transfer trailer. Preliminary traffic analyses, for the year 2005, indicate that capacity should be available for 94 public vehicles to tip during the peak hour. With a facility design life of 15 years, a tipping area with sufficient space for 14 vehicles should accommodate the peak traffic with less than an 8 minute waiting period. Phase 11 - Materials Processing Expansion Processing could be further enhanced by the construction of an attached materials-processing building immediately adjacent to the sorting building. The Phase 11 Recycling Facilities Layout (Figure 3) illustrates the expanded recycling