Final Site Selection Report Kittitas_082118

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Kittitas County Transfer Station Community Meeting Summary 3 • Did you look at tax information to determine values of properties in question? Response: The project team utilized the County’s Geographic Information System (GIS) database to identify and evaluate properties. The GIS database includes land values from the county’s Tax Assessor office for each property. • What size is your current site? Response: The current site is approximately 10 acres. • Has anyone contacted the property owners for the two private sites under consideration and gotten a binding agreement in place? Response: The project team will be contacting owners of the two private sites under consideration to request if they are interested in particpating in the site selection process. • What is the depth of ground water at the three potential sites? And is that a potential impact? Response: The depth to groundwater at the three proposed sites is shallow. Shallow groundwater depths will impact site development cost by requiring importing structural fill to raise the tipping building to allow loading of tranfer trailers. • The two private sites are further away from domestic wells. Is this a consideration given potential impacts to groundwater? Response: The transfer station and compost facility will have a leachate collection system to manage contact water and a storm water collection system to control impact to ground water. • Are you looking at economic impact to neighbors as a criterion? It isn’t listed. Response: The current proposed seconday screening criteria does not directly include economic impact to neighbors. However, the criterion, “Proximity to existing and future residential neighborhoods”, accounts for the impact to neighbors, and indirectly includes economic impact (based on proximity). • If the motivation for moving is flooding, what is the potential for flooding on these three sites? What is the recent history of flooding at the three potential sites? Response: The project team utilized FEMA floodplain mapping to identify potential sites. If a potential site had less than 25 acres outside the 100-year floodplain, the site was removed for further consideration. Based upon available floodplain information, the three proposed sites have at least 25 acres of usable connected land outside the 100-year floodplain. • Does the 25 acres layout include a buffer? If so, what is size of that buffer? Response: The Basis of Design report developed facility sizing requirements for facilities to be located at the new site including scalehouse, transfer building, compost operations, MRW facility, recycling drop-off area, administration building, employee, truck, and trailer parking areas, and onsite roads. The conceptual layouts include a 50’ buffer.