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D. LOVELACE ROAD TRANSFER STATION: 1. General Information: A transfer station is a solid waste facility to which waste is brought in smaller vehicles and then loaded into larger vehicles for transporting to landfills. This system reduces the cost of transporting waste to more distant landfills. The Lovelace Transfer Station is located about five miles south of the City of Stockton on Lovelace Road, east of Airport Way between Airport Way and Union Road. It is owned and operated by the County and staffed by Solid Waste Division employees. The site is open from 6:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily to refuse collection companies and the Cities of Manteca and Ripon, and from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily to the general public. 2. 1994 Waste Quantities: Although the Lovelace Transfer Station, Foothill Sanitary Landfill, and the North County Recycling Center And Sanitary Landfill sites have scales, only the larger vehicles are weighed. Smaller vehicle loads are recorded by volume. Therefore, it is necessary to calculate a factor to convert the cubic yard volume of smaller vehicle nonweighed waste to tons. In developing this conversion factor, it is assumed that waste delivered to the Lovelace Transfer Station in small vehicles is similar in weight to the small vehicle waste at other County sites. Thus, the conversion factor calculated for the Lovelace Transfer Station is applicable to other sites for similar vehicle type nonweighed waste. This factor is calculated as follows: Total tons transferred from Lovelace Transfer Station 199437,139 Less: Weighed tons of incoming waste: 96.262 Equals the weight of nonweighed waste in tons 40,877 Divided by: CY volume of incoming nonweighed waste: 134,722 =The conversion factor for nonweighed waste: .3034 This factor is presented here at using annual totals. However, it is calculated throughout the year for a monthly factor. This assures that the conversions will be as accurate as possible. 21