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have extensive recycling. They call it A transfer station, but it is a paved dumping area, very similar to a transfer station. About 70 percent of the waste that comes from the site comes from the Sanco Transfer Station in the City of Lodi. When the waste is brought to that station, extensive recycling takes place. We get from their transfer vehicles waste that cannot be further recycled economically. We will not be recycling much of that waste, but the other waste that comes to the site from the general public, we will be recycling those materials that we can take out of the waste stream. Cogeneration or resource recovery: San Joaquin County has par- pated with Stanislaus County in furnishing their waste -to - energy plant. We have sent loads from our Lovelace Transfer Station to the waste -to -energy plant. They have been very selec- tive as to what they can take at the plant because some types of material cannot be burned efficiently at the plant. About 40 per- cent of the waste received at the Lovelace transfer station could go to the waste -to -energy plant. We had to landfill the other 60 percent becauselthat waste was not suitable for waste recovery. So even if we had a resource recovery facility today in operation, we would still have need for the North County Landfill. Questions: Comm. Carter: The amount of money it would cost to transfer to Foothill, how much of that, or is it already figured in, would be the cost of dumping at Foothill? We would be charged, of course, correct? Mr. Horton: Yes. Comm. Carter: Was that figured in? Mr. Horton: Yes. The economic analysis that was performed looked at the cost to dump the waste at the transfer station in Lodi, transfer that waste to the Foothill Landfill, pay the tipping fee at the Foothill Landfill for disposal of the waste, and to do the engineerinis studies and proper closure of the Foothill Landfill. That was com- pared with the cost of transporting the waste to the new proposed landfill, and paying the tipping fee at the proposed landfill that covered the cost for development, operation and ultimate closure. They tried very much to keep both cost analyses accurate and as lar as possible. That analysis indicated that it would cost an addi- tional 49 -mon dollars. ,-,omm. Carter: Who in the County does dump at Foothill? Mt. Horton: Foothill takes the unincorporated areas in the central part of the County. The southern portion of the County would be the City of Tracy and that area is served by the Corral Hollow landfill. The northern part of the County would be north of Eight Mile Road. The central portion would be about everything else, except for the 11 PC: 6/l/89 -6- MINUTES