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Transportation Committee Meeting

March 21, 2000

Attendees

Commissioner Jim Disney, Chuck Lightburn, Susie Gordon, Kurt Mackus, Audrey-Lyn Stockton, Scott Doyle

Committee members discussed previous meetings and reviewed some of the history that had led to this meeting. From the fuels committee Kurt Mackus discussed briefly the idea of remote wood waste sites being setup throughout the county. These remote sites would allow outlying county residents the opportunity to place unwanted wood products in an area where they could be later picked up for processing. No plan of how to best manage the sites has been addressed.

Scott Doyle gave a quick review of the first staging/processing meeting. Commissioner Disney reiterated the idea of Holnam using renewable fuels such as agricultural products in the cement making process.

The committee then went into a problem identification process. The committee identified two problems:

1. Saving landfill space by diverting wood waste from the landfill.
2. Holnam needs fuel in the concrete making process.

If the wood was going to be diverted from the landfill to the Holnam plant a plan needed to be addressed as to how to best transport the material and associated routes. Susie Gordon reported that the city had no particular interest in trucks using Taft Hill road unless the amount of truck traffic was going to increase to the point where public safety was an issue. If that were the case it was said that the city would explore the safety issue and make/recommend appropriate change. Based on amounts of wood available for diversion to Holnam, truck traffic would increase by four (4) trucks per day. This number was thought by the entire committee to be high.

The issues of transportation were further explored and several questions arose. These were as follows:

1. Should all materials be ground at the landfill and then transported to the plant?

• A resounding no was the answer form the committee in that all agreed that it best to not haul materials that would be coming from the north end of the county through town twice and that a mechanism as to how to best handle north end and outlying area wood products needed further study.

1. Should Holnam setup a grinding operation at the plant site?

• This was offered as one of the solutions to the materilas from the north end of the county. Possibly to accumulate wood products at the plant site and then have a mobile grinding operation stop by as needed to process the material.

1. What about the remote locations for collection?

• A general concern as to how the remote locations may turn into a dumping area as opposed to just wood collection entered the picture. Also, how are these areas to be serviced and by whom? It was generally agreed that this all needed more study.

1. Are there other generators of wood products where fuel could be obtained?

• The question of other suppliers of wood waste for fuel was addressed and how to best transport. This issue was left for Holnam to explore since the county interest is diversion of wood waste from the landfill. It was agreed that if a county issue were to arise from associated wood hauling activities the county would at that point become involved in resolution.

1. Where does all the wood waste come from?

• Some brain storming allowed the committee to identify several sources of wood waste material. Several of those were the county landfill, construction projects, cabinet shops, lumber fabrication business, saw mills, etc..

1. Could wood materials be shipped in from outlying areas by truck/train?

• The committee thought that the answer to this was yes. Again this was diverted to Holnam for study by their company personnel.

1. Would a GIS study help?

• This was thought to be an interesting idea but was not thoroughly explored.

1. Economics

• The biggest issue of the evening! Holnam was left to explore associated costs for hauling wood chips from the landfill.

Commissioner Disney spoke into the concept of making sure that the entire project was looking into the best interest of the public and all Larimer County residents. The Commissioner stated that Larimer County does business with other businesses in the area and asked that all committees look at the prospect of the outcome here being geared as a sound business decision.

The meeting ended with all agreeing that:

• Roads were available for use in transporting chipped wood from the landfill to Holnam.
• Holnam management was going to explore transportation costs to see if its economically feasible to pay haul costs the distance.
• The assumption was that Holnam will be responsible for transportation.
• If feasible, Holnam needs an understanding with the county that wood material will be made available for use as fuel.

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