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.A 41. *6 0-0 Ed Padilla June 17, 1991 Page 2 practice. Transfer stations are designed to accumulate waste in varying quantities during the day, and steadily transfer the waste throughout the day to the sanitary landfill. The policy is to remove the waste by the end of the working day. Therefore, this should not have been listed as a concern on the inspection report. 2. Accumulation of white goods have increased. I don't understand why this is an area of concern. White goods are pulled from the waste stream and accumulated and placed into bins for transportation to market. Each individual appliance cannot be transported separately to market. Therefore, in order to conduct a recycling program, it is necessary to accumulate white goods until a sufficient quantity is present to economically transport the white goods to market. This accumulation was not excessive and should not have been an area of concern. 3. Compacting backhoe is inoperable. A backhoe is used to spread refuse on the top of the transfer trailers to provide even distribution of the waste. The hydraulic ram on the backhoe was leaking on the day of inspection. Therefore, replacement of this ram was scheduled during a time when no transfer trailers were at the Transfer Station. Thus, the backhoe was out of operation for about 30 minutes during which transfer trailers were not loaded. This was a scheduled maintenance item and should not have been listed as an area of concern. It had no impact whatsoever on the Transfer Station. 4. New screening for west side has not been received yet. Screening had been ordered for the west side, was received, and was the wrong type of screening. Therefore, the screening was returned to the manufacturer and new screening has been ordered. It has not yet been received. When it is received, it will be installed on the west side. In the meantime, rips and tears in the screening on the west side have been repaired. TH:vj R:\VIRGINIA\LTS.EP TA 11103