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. NIY FLORIDA
MEMO
TO: Board of County Conunissioners
W. J. Schuder, Director of Public work(l~
FROM:
SUBJECT: Background on Resource Recovery Planning in Seminole County
1. Chapter 17-7 of the Florida Statutes requires that certain designated
counties, of which Seminole County is one, prepare a solid waste manage-
ment and resource recovery plan for submission to DER by July 1, 1979.
2. Under the auspices of CALNO, a solid waste committee was established to
develop the plan jointly with the County and the seven municipalities.
The committee has been working since early February and has also hired a
consultant to do a portion of the study, particularly that related to
market analysis and feasible resource recovery systems for Seminole County.
Their draft report will be received on December 4. This will be included
in the overall plan which is to be unanimously agreed upon by all the
governmental entities in Seminole County.
3. In August, at the request of Orange County, Commissioner French and members
of Seminole County staff met with Commissioner Fisher and members of the
Orange County staff to see if closer cooperation could be accomplished
between the two counties. This meeting resulted in a decision to draft a
resolution which would be jointly passed by Orange County and Seminole
County stressing the need for close cooperation in planning for solid
waste and directing the staffs to meet and investigate the feasibility of
developing a general plan of action of solid waste and disposal operations
and management, looking towards a longer term, perhaps regional approach,
to solid waste problems.
4. While it is too early to prejudge the final reconunendations and conclusions
of the CALNO Solid Waste Committee, it is safe to say that any significant
resource recovery by Seminole County will require significant capital
investment which probably could not be justified by the amount of solid
waste from Seminole County alone, which comes to approximately 150,000 tons
per year. However, between Orange County and Seminole County there is a
waste stream of approximately 500,000 tons per year which should be investi-
gated in order to determine if there are resource recovery methods that could
be developed and planned for with resulting benefits to both Counties.