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Kittitas County Transfer Station <br /> Community Meeting Summary <br /> <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br /> <br />• How many heavy trucks (transfer trucks) are leaving the transfer station per day? How would this <br />affect the DR Horton development site? <br />Response: Currently three to four transfer vehicles per day are transferred to the landfill for final <br />disposal. In 2040, the number increases to five to six transfer vehicles per day. <br /> <br />• Can information about how many people are currently and projected to use the transfer station <br />be posted on the website? <br />Response: The Basis of Design report is located on the website and includes information on <br />current and projected customers, tonnages, and material quantities. <br /> <br />• How are you going to value/weight your criteria? <br />Response: The project team will utilize input received from the public at the community meeting <br />and on-line to determine value/weights of each criteria. In addition, project team members <br />(County and City of Ellensburg staff) as well as Solid Waste Advisory Committee members will <br />provide input on the weighting criteria. <br /> <br />• Can you make the current site work? What if there were no other options then could you make <br />the current site work by being innovative and using space differently, controlling the flooding <br />issues through dikes, etc.? <br />Response: Building stormwater berms/dikes is not allowed per County ordinance. The current <br />site is not large enough to accommodate future growth. <br /> <br />• The railroad is right near the current site. Have you looked at utilizing it to haul trash and <br />commodities away? <br />Response: The cost to develop rail loading and unloading infrastructure is prohibitive for the <br />small amount of waste being sent to the landfill. The County currently transfers municipal solid <br />waste to the Wenatchee Landfill which has capacity for another 75+ years. <br /> <br />• Could you just add another scale at the current site to separate the commercial trucks from the <br />rest of the traffic? <br />Response: Adding another scale at the current transfer station would eliminate the issue with the <br />rest of site traffic before the scalehouse. However, the commercial vehicle would still need to <br />wait in line with other customers (i.e. self haulers) to enter the transfer building. <br /> <br />• Why were there not sites considered east of town? <br />Response: As part of the intial screening, the project team identified a number of potential sites <br />east of town. Potential sites located near Kittitas were eliminated because of the long travel <br />distance for a majority of facility users (within the City of Ellensburg area). In addition, sites east <br />of Ellensburg were eliminated due to lack of utilities (water and sewer). <br /> <br />• What services are you looking to add or decrease? Recycling only milk jugs and pop bottles are <br />not enough plastic options.