A SURVEY OF
RESOURCE RECOVERY ACTIVITIES
by Richard Kopper
RESOURCE EBCOVESY DIVISION
OFFICE CF SOLID WSTE MRNRGEMEOT PROG3RAT-1S
U.S. ENVISCHSMEKTAL PRDTBCT'IOs1 AGE3SJCY
SEPTEMBER 1974
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INTRODUCTION
This is a compilation of State and local resource recovery
activities across the country. Its purpose is to facilitate the
exchange of information about systems and methods for implementing
resource recovery both at the State and local levels of government.
If you would like to suggest additions or assist in updating
this listing, please write to: Richard Hopper (AW-563), Resource
Recovery Division, Office of Solid Waste Management Programs,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. 20460.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Summary
Detailed Status of State Resource Recovery Activities 1
Detailed Status of Community Resource Recovery Activities ... 2
Types of Resource Recovery Projects Being Pursued by
Communities 3
Activity Reports - States
California 5
Connecticut 7
Florida 9
Hawaii 11
Illinois 12
Maryland 13
Massachusetts 14
Minnesota 15
New York 16
Ohio 17
Pennsylvania 18
Rhode Island 19
Tennessee 20
Vermont 21
Washington 22
Wisconsin 23
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Activity Reports - Ccmrtunities
Akron, Ohio ,. 25
Albany, New York 26
Ames, Iowa 27
Baltimore, Maryland 28
Braintree, Massachusetts 29
Bridgeport, Connecticut 30
Charleston, West Virginia 31
Chicago, Illinois - 32
Cleveland, Ohio 33
Denver, Colorado 34
Fast Bridgewater^ Massachusetts ., 35
Franklin, Ohio 36
Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey 37
Henpstead, New York 38
Honolulu, Hawaii 39
Housatonic Valley, Connecticut 40
Knoxville, Tennessee 41
Lane County, Oregon 42
Los Angeles, California 43
Lowell, Massachusetts 44
Madison, Wisconsin 45
Memphis, Tennessee 46
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 47
Minneapolis, Minnesota 48
Monroe County, New York 49
Montgomery County, Maryland 50
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Montgomery County (Dayton), Ohio 51
Mt. Vernon, New York 52
Nashville, Tennessee 53
New Britain, Connecticut 54
New Orleans, Louisiana 55
Palmer Township, Pennsylvania 56
San Diego County, California 57
Saugus, Massachusetts » 58
Seattle, Washington 59
St. Louis, Missouri 60
Tennessee Valley Authority 61
Washington, D.C 63
Westchester County, New York 64
Wilmington, Delaware 65
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DETAILED STATUS OF STATE
RESOURCE RECOVERY ACTIVITIES
States With Grant
Or Loan Authority
States With Planning
And/or Regulation
States With Operating
Authority
California
Florida
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Minnesota
New York
Tennessee
Washington
California
Florida
Wisconsin
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Minnesota
New York
Rhode Island
Hawaii
Massachusetts
Ohio
Vermont
Connecticut
Florida
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
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DETAILED STATUS OF COMMUNITY
RESOURCE RECOVERY ACTIVITIES
Systems Operating
Or Under Construction
Systems
Selected
Communities
Committed
Other Communities
Listed in Report
St. Louis, M°
Franklin, OH
East Bridgewater, MA
Nashville, TN
Charleston, WV
Ames, I0
Saugus, MA
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Chicago, IL
Baltimore, MD
Definitions:
Lowell, MA
San Diego, CA
Braintree, MA
Bridgeport, CN
New Britain, CN
Housatonic Valley, CN
Memphis, TN
New Orleans, IA
Milwaukee, WI
Monroe County, NY
Wilmington, DE
Lane County, OR
Boston, MA
Minneapolis, MN
Montgomery Co., OH
Westchester County, NY
Mt. Vernon, NY
Albany, NY
Hempstead, NY
Honolulu, HI
Madison, WI
Akron, OH
Eackensack Meadowlands,
.'•Jontgomery Co., OH
Denver, CO
Washington, DC
Palmer Township, PA
Los Angeles, CA
Knoxville, TN
Seattle, WA NJ
TVA - Ashville, NC
.Paducah, KY
Mussel Shoals, AI
Cleveland, OH
NJ
Communities Committed - RFP issued, design study underway, construction
funding made available etc.
Systems Selected - Winner of an RFP or construction contract announced.
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TYPES OF RESOURCE RECOVERY PROJECTS
BEING PURSUED BY COMMUNITIES
A. Strict Materials Recovery
Community
Franklin, OH
Lowell, MA
New Orleans, IA
Status
Operational
Contract being negotiated
Contract signed
B. Combustion of Refuse to Produce Steam for Off-site Use
C.
Community
Nashville, TN
Braintree, MA
Saugus, MA
Baltimore, MD
Akron, OH
Albany, NY
Cleveland, OH
Status
Operational
Operational
Under construction
Under construction
Design study completed
Design study completed
Feasibility study completed
Recovery of Energy Through Use of Prepared Solid Waste as a Fuel
in a Utility Type Boiler
Community
Brockton, MA
St. Louis, MI
Chicago,
Ames, I0
Bridgeport, CN
New Britain, CN
Hempstead, NY
Memphis, TN
Monroe Co. , NY
Lane Co. , OR
Hackensack Meadowlands, NJ
Milwaukee, WI
Palmer Township, Pa.
Wilmington, DE
Washington, DC
Montgomery Co. , MD
Montgomery Co. , OH
Madison, WI
Los Angeles, CA
Honolulu, HI
Housatonic Valley, CN
Status
Operational
Demonstration plant in operation-
expansion planned
Construction underway
Construction underway
Contract awarded
Contract being negotiated
RFP Issued
Design study underway '
Contract being negotiated
Preliminary design completed
Feasibility study completed
Feasibility study completed
Feasibility study completed
Under study
Under study
Under study
Under study
Under study
Under study
Under study
Under study
D. Bioconversion of Solid Waste to Produce Methane
Los Angeles, CA
Experimental program
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TYPES OF RESOURCE RECOVERY PROTECTS
BEING PURSUED BY CQNMJNITIES (continued)
E. Conversion of Solid Waste to Gas or Oil Using Pyrolysis
Contnonity Status
San Diego County, CA Design underway on expansion
of experimental plant
S. Charleston, WV Demonstration plant operational
Baltimore, MD Under construction
Minneapolis, MN Design underway
Mt. Vernon, NY Feasibility study completed
Knoxville, TN Under study
Seattle, WA. Under study
Vfestchester Co., NY Under study
Denver, CO Under study
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ACTIVITY REPORT
Project Description
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State of California
Richard Hopper
Albert A. Marino, Executive Director
California State Solid Waste Mgmt. Board
Rm. 1335, Resources Building
1416 9th Street
Sacramento, California 95814
Tel. - 916-322-3330
Development of state plan.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
In 1972 the California State Legislature enacted the Solid Waste
Management and Resource Recovery Act which established a solid waste
management board and required all counties to adopt solid waste
management plans to be approved by the State Board placing priority
upon resource recovery.
In implementing this priority on resource recovery, the Act mandates
the Solid Waste Mgmt. Board to develop a State Resource Recovery Plan
considering the following elements:
1. A State-directed R&D program.
2. A demonstration program for resource recovery.
3. Changes in product characteristics to encourage source reduction.
4. The use of state procurement practices to induce a market demand.
5. Incentives, including state grants, loans and other assistance,
along with disincentives.
6. Effects of existing public policies.
7. Disposal taxes on consumer goods.
8. State pilot resource recovery projects.
To .fulfill this mandate, the State Board requested its advisory council
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State of California
(continued)
on resource recovery to prepare a draft state resource recovery plan.
This has been completed, and is now being circulated by the Board
for public review.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
Project Description
LOCATION: State of Connecticut
EPA CONTACT: Robert Randol
PROJECT CONTACT: Mr. Joseph L. Boren, Director
Solid Waste Management Programs
Department of Environmental Protection
State of Connecitcut
State Office Building, Rm. 248
Hartford, Connecticut 06115
Tel. - 203-566-3672
PROJECT TYPE: Development of state authority.
TONS/DAY:
CAPITAL COST:
METHOD OF FINANCING: Revenue bonds
CONTRACTOR: Garrett Research and Development Company
( Bridgeport facility )
Combustion Equipment Associates
( Greater Hartford facility )
Project Status
As a result of a comprehensive state plan developed by the Connecticut
Department of Environmental Protection, the State legislature created
the Connecitcut Resources Recovery Authority (CRRA). The Authority is
carrying out implementation of the plan, which calls for the construction
by 1985 of 10 resource recovery facilities which will process 84 percent
of the State's waste. CRRA has been given $250 million bonding
authority for facility construction. During formulation of the plan,
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funded a study which gave the
State an independent commentary on the proposed legislation, gave a
framework for evaluation of proposed projects, and made recommendations
for the organization and management of the Authority as well as on
aspects of financing and system incentives. Contracts for the first
two facilities have been awareded to Garrett Research and Development
Company for a resource recovery plant in Bridgeport and to Combustion
Equipment Associates for a plant in Berlin, which will serve several
communities in the Greater Hartford area. Unique features of the
Connecitcut Plan include:
Voluntary Participation. Communities are not required to utilize
the services of the CRRA facilities, but instead may decide to do so
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on an economical basis.
Rate Setting. There is no regulation of the rates charged to the
communities. However, since the system is voluntary, CRRA is forced
to be competitive with other means of disposal.
Private Sector Involvement. Since CKRA is limited to 30 employees,
the private sector will be utilized for design, construction, and
operation of facilities.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
Project Description
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State of Florida
Richard Hopper
Mr. J. Benton Druse
Solid Waste Planning
Department of Pollution Control
2562 Executive Center Circle, E.
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
Tel. - 904-488-1345
Development of state plan.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Project Status
Florida recently enacted legislation creating a Resource Recovery
and Management Council, and mandated that it develop a resource
recovery program for the State. While the State Board of Pollution
Control would be responsible for adopting the recommended program
by rule, the Resource Recovery and Management Council has veto powers
over any provisions of the program that it objects to. By law, the
Board of Pollution Control must adopt a resource recovery and manage-
ment program for the state within one year after the "Florida Resource
Recovery and Management Act" takes effect and, in doing so, must hold
public hearings throughout the State.
To implement the adopted program, the lav/ states that specific powers
of the Department, of . Poll :tel.C3o -.Control .shall
(1) Provide technical assistance to counties, municipalities
and other persons, and cooperate with appropriate federal
agencies and private organizations in carrying out the purposes
of this act.
(2) Promote the planning and application of recycling and resource
recovery systems which preserve and enhance the quality of the
air, water, and other natural resources of the state.
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State of Florida
(continued)
(3) Serve as the official state representative for all purposes
of the Federal Solid Waste Disposal Act (P.L. 91-512), or as
subsequently attended.
(4) Utilize through contractual arrangements, private industry
for implementation of some or all of the requirements of the state
resource recovery and management program and for such other
activities as may be considered necessary, desirable, or convenient.
(5) Fjicourage recycling and resource recovery as an energy source.
(6) Assist and encourage, as much as possible, in the development
of industries and commercial enterprises within the state which
are based upon resource recovery, recycling, and reuse of solid waste.
(7) Charge reasonable fees for any services it performs pursuant to
this act, provided user fees shall apply uniformly.within each
municipality or county to all users who are provided with resource
recovery and management services.
(8) Acquire, at its discretion, personal or real property or any
interest therein by fits, lease, or purchase, for the purpose of
providing sites for resource recovery and management facilities.
(9) Acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, equip,
furnish and operate at its discretion such resource recovery and
management facilities as are called for by the state resource
recovery and management program.
(10) Receive funds or revenues from the sale of products, materials,
fuels, or energy in any form derived from processing of solid
waste by state owned or operated facilities, which funds or revenues
shall be deposited in the general revenue fund.
Furthermore, the' law" states'.that within' two years after the department
adopts the state resource recovery and management program, all counties
and municipalities shall adopt, either solely or in cooperation with
other counties and municipalities, a local resource recovery and
management program which shall be approved by the department, and shall
implement the provisions of the state program by adequately providing
for the collection, transportation, storage, separation, processing,
recovery, recycling, or disposal of solid waste generated or existing
within the boundaries of the county or incorporatel limits of the
municipality or in the area served thereby. . . And, if any county or
municipality fails to develop, either solely or in cooperation with
other counties, municipalities, or private enterprise, in a manner
consistent with the department guidelines, an approved local resource
recovery and management program, the department shall, by rule, adopt
a suitable program for the county or municipality involved, which
program may include cooperation of any county or municipality with any
other county or municipality.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
Project Description
LOCATION: State of Hawaii
EPA CONTACT: Richard Hopper
PROJECT CONTACT: Judith Blatchford
State Office of Environmental Quality
550 Halekauwila St., Rm. 301
Honolulu, Hawaii
Tel. - 808-548-6915
PROJECT TYPE: Development of state plan.
TONS/DAY: N/A
CAPITAL COST: $100,000 study appropriation
METHOD OF FINANCING: State appropriation
CONTRACTOR: None
Project Status
In 1971, the Hawaii State Legislature enacted legislation calling for
the development of an Hawaii State Plan for Solid Waste Recycling.
This plan was conpleted in 1973 and is in the process of being implemented.
Responding to one of the plan's recommendations, the State has set aside
land in the harbor area of .Honolulu as a centralized recycling industrial
park. In addition, the State has invested in the design of a plant to
convert organics to oil, for which a pilot plant is expected to be
constructed sometime in 1976. Meanwhile, pending before the legislature
are still several pieces of legislation, including: a bill to create
a Hawaii Waste Recovery Authority, tax incentives for solid waste
recycling facilities, and bottle legislation. Finally, the State is
maintaining an on-going inventory of solid waste generated and markets
for recovered material while sponsoring small-scale demonstration
projects.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
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State of Illinois
Harry Butler
Pat Lynch .
Division of Land Pollution Control
Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
2200 Churchill Drive
Springfield, Illinois 62706
Tel. - 217-549-6760
Solid waste grant program.
N/A
$6 million grant funding.
State grant-in-aids.
N/A
The State Solid Waste Office is staffing up for a grant program of
$6 million for solid waste planning and resource recovery demonstrations.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
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State of Maryland
David Sussman
Walter A. Miles
Division of Solid Waste
Maryland State Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene
610 North Howard Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Tel. - 301-383-2772
State grant and loan program
N/A
N/A
State appropriation
N/A
The Maryland Environmental Services (MES) can provide both grants and
loans for resource recovery facilities. $4 million of the matching
funds for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's $16 million
demonstration in Baltimore was provided by MES.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
Project Description
LOCATION: State of Massachusetts,
EPA CONTACT: Yvonne Garbe
PROJECT CONTACT: Alden Cousins, Director
Bureau of Solid Waste Disposal
Mass. Dept. of Public Works
100 Nashua Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02114
Tel. - 617-727-4293
PROJECT TYPE: Development of state plan
TONS/DAY: N/A
CAPITAL COST: N/A
METHOD OF FINANCING: N/A
CONTRACTOR: N/A
'Project Status
The Ccrarnnwealth of Massachusetts is implementing a state-wide resource
recovery plan. Requests for proposals are being prepared for the
Greater Lawrence area, which will be the first region to be iirplamented.
The plan features a system of privately financed, privately owned, State
controlled resource recovery facilities.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
Project Description
LOCATION: State of Minnesota
EPA CONTACT: Richard Hopper
PROJECT CONTACT: Robert Solvany
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Division of Solid Waste
1935 West County Road, B-2
Roseville, Minnesota 55113
Tel. - 612-636-5740
PROJECT TYPE: State grant program
TONS/DAY: N/A
CAPITAL COST: $3.5 million in grant funds
METHOD OF FINANCING: State appropriation
CaxTTRACTOR: N/A
Project Status
A $3.5 million solid waste disposal and resource recovery grant program
is being implemented by the Minnesota Pollution Control Authority-. •/^•v~>^
To be eligible for state assistance, a program or project must be '
consistent with all State approved county and regional solid waste
management plans of affected counties and must comply with all
applicable local, state, and federal regulations. In addition,
grantsin-aid payments made by the State can not exceed 50 percent
of the total cost of the program or project funded.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
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State of New York
Harry Butler
William G. Bentley, Director
Division of Solid Waste Management
New York State Dept. of Environmental
Conservation
50 Wolf Road
Albany, New York
Tel. - 518-457-6603
State grant program.
N/A
$175 million for solid waste disposal and
resource recovery grants to local government.
General obligation bond.
N/A
New York State voters have approved a $1.1 billion Environmental
Bond, which includes $175 million for solid waste disposal and
resource recovery facilities. The regulations provide up to 25%
State funding for disposal projects and up to 50% for resource
recovery projects, thus increasing the incentive for resource
recovery* In addition, the regulations provide that to be eligible
for state assistance, a project must be consistent with a
comprehensive solid waste management plan. Comprehensive plans
must: (1) assure that all municipalities within a region will be
served by a solid waste recovery and management system; (2) provide
for intermunicipal cooperation; (3) define, .solid waste collection
service areas and the type of service to be provided; (4) utilize
modern technology to best meet local needs and optimize opportunities
for resource recovery; and (5) provide for phased implementation of
proposed systems to meet short range and long range needs.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
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State of Ohio
Richard Hopper
Mr. Don Day
Division of Waste Management & Engineering
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
P.O. Box 1049
Columbus, Ohio 43216
Tel. - 614-466-8934
Development of state plan.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
A task force of the Ohio Conmission on Local Government Services
recently recommended that the State both establish a State policy on
resource recovery for operating programs of state government, and a
,0hio Resource Recovery Authority to finance and operate actual systems
on a permissive-use basis. -To implement its recommendations, the
task force called for a $1.5 million study to design a specific state
program.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
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State of Pennsylvania
Richard Hopper
William C. Bucciarelli, Director
Division of Solid Waste Management
Dept. of Environmental Resources
8th Floor Fulton Building
P.O. Box 2063
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120
Tel. - 717-787-7381
State loan program.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
In 1974 the Pennsylvania State Legislature enacted the Pennsylvania
Solid Waste Resource Recovery Development Act creating a State loan
program for local resource recovery projects. Requirements of the
Act are that in reviewing applications for loans, the Department of
Environmental Resources shalli (1) consider the amounts of polluting
substances treated and/or eliminated; (2) the overall environmental
benefits to be accrused as a result of the projects; (3) the amount
of populations served; and (4) the extent of resource recovery to be
included. Furthermore, the law requires that no loan shall be made
to any local government which is not a part of a department approved
local solid waste management plan.
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ACTIVITY REPORT
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State of Rhode Island
David Sussman
John Quiiin, Jr., Chief
Division of Solid Waste
State Health Department
204- Health Building
Davis Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02908
Tel. - 401-528-1000
Development of state plan.
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
The Rhode Island legislature has created the Rhode Island Solid Waste
Management Corporation. The legislation which created the Corporation
is a result of the State Solid Waste Management Plan and is modeled
after the Connecticut Resource Recovery legislation. Environmental
Protection Agency, through a grant to Rhode Island, assisted in the
preparation of the State Plan.
As outlined in the legislation, details of the state program are:
(1) The corporation will prepare and implement a functional level
plan for an integrated statewide system of solid waste management
facilities;
(2) Municipal participation in the statewide system of solid waste
management facilities that will be developed by the corporation
will be on a voluntary basis.
(3) The corporation will make its waste management facilities available
under contract to any municipality, institution, or person at
reasonable fees established by the corporation; and,
(4) Any revenues received by the corporation shall be used by said
•corporation to provide the financial support that is required
to maintain financial solvency.
At present, the State is exploring alternatives for providing the
necessary start-up funding for the corporation.
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State of Tennessee
Harry Butler
Tom Tiesler, Director
Solid Waste Management Section
Division of Environmental Sanitation
Bureau of Environmental Health Services
State Department of Public Health
Capitol Hill Bldg., Ste. 320
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
Tel. •* 615-741-3424
Loan program.
N/A
$10 million resource recovery loan program.
State loans.
N/A
The State Legislature has authorized a $10 million resource recovery
loan progrsm. Regulations are Joeing drafted for the implementation
of this program with assistance from the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. In addition, the Tennessee Municipal League (TML) has proposed
a state resource recovery plan - with $3.5 million funding suggested.
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State of Vermont
Yvonne Garbe
Richard Valentinetti
Air & Solid Waste Programs
Protection Division
Agency of Environmental Conservation
P.O. Box 489
Montpelier, Vermont 05602
Tel. - 802-828-3395
Development of state plan
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
The State solid waste plan calls for mandatory separation of wastes
by the householder and for the construction of four regional resource
recovery facilities. The proposed legislation to put this plan into
effect failed to pass in 1973, but will be reintroduced this year.
Chittenden County is planning a pilot implementation of the proposed
plan that should be operational by 1976.
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State of Washington
Richard Hopper
Bob Martin
Solid Waste Management
Washington State Department of Ecology
Olympia, Washington 98505
Tel. - 206-753-6883
Grant and loan program.
N/A
$30 million in grants and loans.
State appropriation.
N/A
The State of Washington is already administering a 6 year $30 million
grant and loan program for resource recovery and solid waste disposal.
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State of Wisconsin
Richard Hopper
Mr.. Warren Porter
Wisconsin Solid Waste Recycling Authority
c/o Department of Administration
1 West Wilson Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53702
Tel. - 608-266-2686
Development of state program.
N/A
N/A
Revenue bonds.
N/A
The State of Wisconsin has recently created a Solid Waste Recycling
Authority with powers to plan, design, finance, construct, acquire,
lease, contract, operate, and maintain resource recovery facilities
within designated recycling regions. The types of resource recovery
facilities to be built will be determined by the Authority based
largely on information contained in the two year study which
recommended formation of the Authority. Three initial recycling
regions, ecompassing 11 counties have been established. Funds have
been appropriated for the Authority's initial start up costs, and the
law establidles bonding authority for capital costs. The authority is
now being formed. Unique features of the Wisconsin plan include:
(1) Mandatory Compliance. In order to insure a large waste stream
for economies of scale, to reduce risks for investors, and to
provide a continuous supply of materials for their markets, the
Authority has control of-all waste collected within the designated
regions and must approve all disposal or recovery facilities.
(2) Cost Guarantees. During the first three years of operation,
rates and charges for approved facilities may be reduced by the
Authority, but they may not be increased.
(3) Site Purchase. The Authority must purchase, given certain
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provisions, operating municipal disposal sites that are offered for
sale by the municipality.
(4) Private Sector Involvement. To insure the use of the private
sector, the Authority is limited to 40 employees.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Akron, Ohio
EPA CONTACT: Steven Levy
PROJECT CONTACT: Janes A. ALkire, Director
Department of Planning and Urban Renewal
400 Municipal Building
166 S. High Street
Akron, Ohio 44308
(216) 375-2771
PROJECT TYPE: Waterwall Incinerator
TONS/DAY: 1000 (with Possible Expansion to 1400 TPE>)
CAPITAL COSTi $18 Million
METHOD OF FINANCING: Municipal Revenue Bonds
CONTRACTOR: Glaus, Pyle, Schomer, Bums and DeHaven
(System Designer)
Project Status
City is in the final stages of system design. Bids were let in Winter
1973 for boilers; and Babcox and Wilcox was selected as supplier. City
plans to go out for bids for facility construction in October.
When completed, the project will supply steam to the City's central
business district's heating system and to B.F. Goodrich. There is also
the possibility that an additional steam market will be found with the
University of Akron. If this materializes, the system's throughput will
be increased to 1400 tons per day.
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Project Status
Albany, New York
Harry Butler
Patrick Mahoney
President, Smith & Mahoney
40 Steuben Street
Albany, New York 12207
Tele: 518-463-4107
Shredded Waste As A Fuel
600-
$6 million
50% - State grant
50% - General Obligation Bonds
Design - Smith & Mahoney
Construction and Operation - not
yet selected
City is seeking New York State grant for a 600 TPD (one shift)
shredded fuel preparation system (shred, magnetic separation, air
classification), which will be constructed at their existing landfill
site. Fuel will be trucked into downtown Albany (18 miles) where
after storage it will be burned in a facility designed after the
Hamilton, Ontario waterwall incinerator. The boiler will be owned
and operated by the State Office of General Services, and will
represent an expansion of present facilities, which was required
due to the construction of a new complex of State buildings.
The city will own the processing facility, but intends to have
a contractor construct and operate the site.
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Ames, Iowa
Robert Holloway
City Manager
City Hall, 5th and Kellog Streets
Ames, Iowa
Tele: 515-232-7479
Waste,as fuel - city owned power plant
200
$2.8 Million
Municipal Revenue Bond
Gibbs, Hill, Durham and Richardson, Inc,
Consulting Engineers
Under construction. Combustion Power Company materials recovery
system will be used for front end processing.
Three small boilers (60 mw total) to be modified to burn waste
fuel. One unit is a tangentially - fired boiler? the other two are
stokers. Supplementary waste fuel will be pneumatically fired onto
the grates of the stoker fired units.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Baltimore, Md.
EPA CONTACT: David Sussman
PROJECT CONTACT: Elliot Zulver
City of Baltimore
301-396-3529
PROJECT TYPE: Pyrolysis
TONS/DAY: 1000
CAPITAL COST: $16 Million
METHOD OF FINANCING: EPA grant - $6 Million
State loan - $4 Million
City funds ~ $6 Million
CONTRACTOR: Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc.
Project Status
Under construction with a cornpletion date of November, 1974.
Baltimore will own and operate a 1,000 ton~per-day solid waste pyrolysis
plant developed by Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc. The IANDGARD system
will be designed and constructed by Monsanto under a turnkey contract with
moneyback performance guarantee provisions. Monsanto is guaranteeing plant
availability at 85 percent, particulate emissions to meet local and Federal
standards, and the residue putrescible content to be less than 0.2 percent.
The plant is being designed to handle mixed municipal solid waste,
including tires and white goods. All incoming waste will be shredded
to a 4-inch particle size and then conveyed to a rotary pyrolysis kiln.
The pyrolysis gases leave the kiln and will then be combusted in an
afterburner. The hot afterburner exhaust gases will pass through waste
heat boilers that generate 200,000 pounds of steam per hour for sale to
the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company. The steam will be used for down-
town heating and cooling. Boiler exhaust gases will be scrubbed, dehumidified,
and released to the atmosphere.
The pyrolysis residue will be water quenched and ferrous metals will be
separated. Water flotation and screening processes will separate the char
residue, which must be landfilled (16 tons, with 50 percent moisture, for
every 100 tons of solid waste input), from a glassy aggregate fraction,
which will be used as aggregate for city asphalt concrete street construction.
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Project Description
LOCATION:
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PROJECT CONTACT:
Braintree, MA
Steve Levy
PROJECT TYPE:
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Waterwall incineration
240
$2.5 million
General obligation bonds
Designed by Camp, Dresser and McKee
Plant has been operational since 1971, but until recently no steam
was being sold. Conraunity is now developing a market for steam.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Bridgeport, Connecticut
EPA CONTACT: Robert Holloway
PROJECT CONTACT: Richard P. Chase
CRRA; Connecticut Resources
Recovery Authority
60 Washington Street
Suite 1305
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
Tele: 203-549-6390
PROJECT TYPE: Waste as fuel; material recovery
TONS/DAY: 1800
CAPITAL COST: $29 Million
METHOD OF FINANCING Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority
CONTRACTOR: Garrett Research and Development
Project Status
Full service contract to design, construct, and operate for
fixed-price signed in September, 1974. 500 tpd of fuel will be
sold to Northeast Utilities (Conn. Light and Power) Devon Power
Station. Markets for remaining fuel (500 tpd) not yet established.
(See State of Connecticut).
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Project Description-
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Charleston, West Virginia
Steve Levy
Mr. Tern Donnegan
Union Carbide
270 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10017
Tel. - 212-551-4167
Gas pyrolysis
TONS/DAY:
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METHOD OF FINANCING:
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Project Status
200
Privately financed by Union Carbide
Union Carbide
Test facility is currently undergoing shakedown. This is a private
test facility being used to determine scale-up paratrrters and verify
the technology and its economics.
Process uses oxygen in lower part of combustion chamber to produce
a 300 BIU psr standard cubic foot gas.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois
EPA CONTACT: Robert Holloway
PROJECT CONTACT: Harold Coenig
Commonwealth Edison
P.O. Box 767
Chicago, Illinois 60690
Tel. (312) 294-4321
TONS/DAY: 1000
CAPITAL COST: $14 Million
METHOD OF FINANCING: General Obligation Bonds
CONTRACTOR: Ralph M. Parsons, Inc.
Consulting Engineers
Project Status
Under construction. Supplementary fuel will be pneumatically
transported from tl processing plant to the adjacent Commonwealth
Edison Crawford Power Station.
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•Project Description
LOCATION: Cleveland, OH
EPA CONTACT: David Sussman
PROJECT CONTACT: Richard Labus
Commissioner of Utility Engineering
Cleveland, Ohio
Tel. - 216-694-2000
PROJECT TYPE: Not selected at this tinre, but output must
be high temperature and pressure steam for
city owned electric utility.
TONS/DAY: 1500
CAPITAL COST:
METHOD OF FINANCING:
CONTRACTOR:
Project Status
City went out with an RFP for an energy recovery plant, but the
City Council cancelled the RFP after the proposals were in. A new
RFP has not yet been sent out.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Denver, CO
EPA CONTACT: Richard Hopper
PROJECT CONTACT: Alan L. Foster, Environmental Planner
Denver Regional Council of Governments
1776 South Jackson St., #200
Denver, Colorado 80210
PROJECT TYPE: Development of regional plan.
TONS/DAY:
CAPITAL COST: Estimated for 1985 - $73 million
METHOD OF FINANCING:
CONTRACTOR:
Project Status
In August of 1372 the Denver Regional Council of Governments completed
its Project Reuse report which recommended the establishment of a single
resource recovery center to handle all the solid waste in the five
county area of metropolitan Denver. When fully operational in 1985,
the facility was projected to cost $73 million and process between
600-1200 tons per day of solid waste with only 14% of the input going
to landfill as residue. While not yet implemented, the Denver Regional
Council of Governments has maintained its commitment to resource
recovery and has recently formed a new task force to assess the possi-
bility of institutional options for establishing a regional resource
recovery center.
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Project Description
LOCATION: East Bridgewater, Massachusetts
EPA CONTACT: Robert Hollcway
PROJECT CONTACT: John Reilly
CEA (Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc.
555 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022
(212) 980-3700
PROJECT TYPE: Waste Fuel (supplementary)
TONS/DAY: 600 (Two shifts)
CAPITAL COST:
METHOD OF FINANCING: Private Venture
COSITRACTOR: CEA
Project Status
Plant shakedown started Winter, 1973-74. Shakedown continuing thru
Surtmer, 1974. No fuel product has been sold because no coal boilers
are nearby. Plant not c erating except for experimentation because
no product market.
In addition, CEA basing future contracts on Eco-Fuel II, a chemically
treated, pulverized solid fuel derived from waste. The East Bridgewater plant
designed to produce Eco-Fuel I, the feed material to an Eco-Fuel II
system. The East Bridgewater plant is to be modified in the future to produce
Eco-Fuel II.
CEA plans Eco-Fuel II trial firings w/fuel produced from a pilot
plant at Weyerhauser (close to Brockton) and at Public Services Gas
and Electric, N.J.
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Project Description
LOCATION:
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CONTRACTOR:
Franklin, OH
Yvonne Garbe
B. Eichholtz, City Manager
City of Franklin
P.O. Box 132
Franklin, Ohio 45005
Municipal solid waste is wet pulped and
segregated into sorted glass, ferrous metal,
aluminum, and fibers for recovery.
Currently - 50 Tons Per Day (One Shift)
(capacity 150 TPD/24 HR. SHUT)
$3.177 million
Fed. share - $2.177 million
Franklin ~ 0.5 million
GCMI - 0,15 million
Black/Clawson 0.2 million
Black Clawson Co.
Glass Container Mfg. Inst.
Project Status
Completed - 6/71. The total system is actually comprised of three sub-
systems for solid waste disposal, fiber recovery, and glass recovery
respectively. In the system, a hydrapulper wet pulps the refuse, while
a magnetic separator recovers the ferrous metals portion, a liquid cyclone
extracts other heavy elements such as glass, and the remaining fiber is
then cleaned and dewatered in the fiber recovery system. Rejected material
is piped to the fluidized bed incinerator for disposal.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Hackensack Meadowlands, New Jersey
EPA CONTACT: Robert Holloway
PROJECT CONTACT: George Casino
Chief Engineer
Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission
1099 Wall Street, West
Lyndhurst, N.J. 07071
Tel, 201-935-3250
William D. McDowell
Executive Director
PROJECT TYPE: Waste as Supplementary Fuel
TONS/DAY: Not Decided
CAPITAL COST: "
METHOD OF FINANCING:
CONTRACTOR:
Project Status
HMDC received 8 proposals in Fall 1973 as result of RFP. CEA
Americology were two. HMDC asked Stevens Institute and Fairleigh Dickinson
University to review proposals. CEA was recoirmended.
No action was taken because of change in State administration.
HMDC has now contracted w/ First Boston, Sullivan and Cromwell, and
Hawkins, Delafield and Wood to pursue negotiations with several of the
original bidders to implement a fuel system.
Public Service Electric and Gas has expressed interest in waste fuel.
PSEG signed a contract in August, 1974 with CEA to burn 200 tpd of Eco-
Fuel II on a trial basis. CEA hopes to start preliminary tests with
pellets within 2 months at PSEG and Weyerhauser (near CEA's Brockton
plant). Eco-Fuel II for the early burns will be produced by the pilot
plant. Additional PSEG tests will be run in 1-2 years with fuel produced
from a plant in New Jersey.
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Project Description
LOCATION:
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Hempstead, NY
Alan Shilepsky
William Landman
Commissioner of Sanitation
1600 Merrich Rd.
Merrich, NY 11566
Tel. - 516-378-4210
Not specified in RFP. Ninety-seven percent
volume reduction required.
2000
$45 million
Exact form is undetermined until a contract
is signed, but will probably be corporate
revenue bonds.
PROJECT TYPE:
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Town has an RFP out with proposals due back on Oct. 19, 1974.
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Honolulu, Hawaii
Richard Hopper
Kazu Hayashida
Chief, Public Works Department
City and County of Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii
Tel. - 808-546-7514
Feasibility study for energy recovery
1500
N/A
City - $53,000 Amfac Corp.- $50,000
Sunn, Low, Tom & Kara Engineering Consultants
The City and County Honolulu, Amfac Corp., and the Hawaiian Electric
Company are jointly conducting a feasibility study to investigate the
possibility of utilizing mixed refuse and cane trash for the generation
of power. Amfac Corp. is one of.Hawaii's largest private corporations
and a major sugar cane grower.
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Project Description
I£CATION: Housatonic Valley, Connecticut
EPA CONTACT: Robert Holloway
PROJECT CONTACT: Robert Schulz
The Fourth Sink Management Group, Inc.
P.O. Box 75
Kattskill Bay, New York 12844
518-656-9253
PROJECT TYPE: Waste as fuel, materials recovery
TONS/DAY: 1500
CAPITAL COST: $35 million
METHOD OF FINANCING: CRRA funding requested (See State of Conn.)
CONTRACTOR: CEA (Combustion Equipment Assoc., Inc.)
Project Status
$22 million processing plant to be located in Newton, Conn, to prepare
Eco-Fuel II. Fuel will be shipped by rail to the Pierce power plant in
Wallingford, Conn., where a $10 million high-pressure steam generating
facility will be designed and constructed by CEA,
CRRA limited to $100 MM funding -through FY75. Therefore, with funding
of New Britain and Bridgeport, CRRA cannot now fund entire Housatonic
project. CRRA likely to fund just transfer station portion, with land-
filling of waste until authority extended.
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Project Description
LOCATION:
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PROJECT CONTACT:
Knoxville, Tennessee
Robert Randol
Kyle Testerman, Mayor
City Hall
Knoxville, Tennessee
Tel. - 615-639-0101
Torrax type system to produde combustible gas or
palletized solid waste fuel
2000 (if combined with Chatancoga)
TVA would own, operate and finance
PROJECT TYPE:
TONS/DAY:
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METHOD OF
CONTRACTOR:
Project Status
Knoxville is particij .ing in a tripartite study with TVA
and Torrax to examine the feasibility of using a Torrax type
system to produce a combustible gas which would be fired into the
furnaces at the Watts Bar power plant.
TVA would like Knoxville to be its lead city in the implementation
of TVA's master solid waste plan. TVA would like to finance,
construct and operate a resource recovery system for the city.
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Lane County, Oregon
Steve Levy
Bruce Bailey
Solid Waste Division
County Annex Bldg.
135 East 6th Ave.
Eugene, Oregon 97401
Tel. - 503-687-4119
Solid waste as a fuel in en existing, municipally
owned steam boiler. Boiler currently uses waste
wood to produce steam for a district heating system.
600-1000
$1.4 million
General obligation bonds - already have voter
approval for up to $3.5 million.
Preliminary design - Wilsey and Ham
Plant will be constructed out as a total
system f6r construction/ engineering.
County is still examing the feasibility of the project. The 'goal
of the county is to begin system procurement within the next several
months.
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Los Angeles, California
Dr. John Skinner
Jack Green
Manager, Environmental Quality
Mayor's Office, City Hall
Los.Angeles, CA 90012
Considering Shredded Waste As A Fuel
Project Description
LOCATION:
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Discussions have been initiated between the Mayor's office, Department,
of Sanitation, and the Department of Health as to the feasibility of using
shredded waste as a supp irentary fuel in the city-owned power plant.
Leaning Towards G.O. Bonds
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Project Description
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Lowell, MA
Yvonne Garbe
Paul Sheehy, City Manager, City Hall
Lowell, Mass. Tel. 617-454-8821
Standard mineral benefioiation techniques
to separate and recover various metals and
glass from incinerator residue.
250
$3.177 million
Fed. share -- $2.384 million
Lowell - 0.178 million
State - 0.615 million
Raytheon Service Co.
R. Schroeder, Project Manager
Burlington, Mass.
Design and contract preparations completed. When completed, incinerator
residue from Lowell and several neighboring communities v/ill be processed
in the facility. Using a series of screens, shredders, classifiers and
other ore benefication equipment the plant will extract more than 40,000
tons of products from the incinerator residue annually, resulting in
revenues exceeding $1.5 million annually.
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Project Description
LOCATION:
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METHOD OF FINANCING:
Madison, WI
Alan Shilepsky
James Retloff
Engineering Department
City-County Bldg.
Madison, WI
Tel. - 608-266-4091
Shredded and classified wastes for energy
recovery in Madison Gas and Electric boilers.
Ferrous recovery currently underway.
200
Under study - approx. $3 million
Probably general obligation bonds.
CONTRACTOR:
Project Status
Horner & Shifrin feasibility study due soon for expanding current
shredding operation into energy recovery.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Memphis, Tennessee
EPA CONTACT: Harry Butler
PROJECT CONTACT: Frank Palurrbo
City Engineer, City of Memphis
City Hall
125 North Main Street
Memphis, Term. 38103
(901) 534-9611
PROJECT TYPE: Pulped Fuel
TONS/DAY: 600 Tons Per Day
CAPITAL COST: $10 Million
METHOD OF FINANCING:
CONTPACTOR: Leonard S. Vfegman Co. » Consulting
Engineers
Project. Status
Leonard S. Wegman Co has been selected to design and build a 600 ton
per day resource recovery -stem in which the solid waste will be reduced
to a pulp which will be mixed with sewage sludge. This slurry will be
pumped 6 miles by pipeline to a drying facility adjacent to the Tennessee
Valley Authority's Allen Power Plant. The slurry will be dried in an
incinerator which is fueled with a flammable industrial waste. The
resultant fluff will be transported pneumatically to the Allen Plant
where it will be burned as a supplementary fuel.
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Milwaukee, WI
Alan Shilepsky
Donald Roethig
Deputy Commissioner of Public Works
Rm. 516, Municipal Bldg.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Tel. - 414-278-3302
Shredded and classified fuel facility with
ferrous metal and corrugated paper recovery.
1000
$17 million
"ublic improvement bonds
Negotiating, with Americology
DeLeuw-Cather prepared an RFP for the city and ranked the proposals
received, with Americology receiving the highest rating. Negotiations
with Americology are now underway. As 'a result of new state legislation,
the new State authority may eventually take over the Milwaukee plant
and integrate it into a state-wide system.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Minneapolis, MN
EPA CONTACT: Alan Shilepsky
PROJECT CONTACT: Maurice Dorton, Director
Metropolitan Sewer Board
350 Metro Sq. Bldg.
St. Paul, Minn. 55101
Tel. - 612-222-8423
PROJECT TYPE: Pyrolysis unit to dispose of sewage sludge
and to generate activated char and fuels for
other sewer board uses.
TONS/DAY: 360
CAPITAL COST: $15 million
METHOD OF FINANCING: Primarily federal construction grant funds.
CONTRACTOR: Rust Engineering
Proj ect Status
This project is in the design stage, and grew out of the Twin Cities'
Metropolitan Sewer Board's need to dispose of the sludge coming out of
their water treatment system. Their plan is to pyrolyze approximately
100 wet tons of sludge and 360 tons of solid waste daily into gas and
oil for use in other parts of the system. This will reduce the Board's
fuel costs, which currently run about $1 million a year. Other hoped
for benefits are activated carbon from the pyrolysis char, also to be
used internally in Sewer Board operations, and revenues from the sale of
front-end, manually separated steel, aluminum and glass. The system
under design will handle only 15% of their sludge as they want to test
the process before relying upon it entirely.
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Monroe County, NY
Alan Shilepsky
Chris Christensen
Director of Solid Waste
Dept. of Public Vforks
200 County Office Bldg.
Rochester, NY 14614
Tel. - 716-454-7200
Shredded fuel for supplementary burning in
Rochester Gas and Electric Boilers.
$25 million, not including retrofitting and
storage facilities.
Public improvement bonds plus at least
$9 million from the state.
Raytheon
County legislature is considering 'a recommendation to award design
and construction contract to Raytheon. Contractor will provide
management service - design, supervise construction, start-up and
operate for five years.
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Project Description
LOCATION:
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Montgomery County, Maryland
Robert A. Lowe
Dr. Jacqueline H. Rogers, Planner
Office of Planning and Capital Programming
Montgomery County, Md.
Tel. - 301-279-1316
Shredded waste as a supplementary electric
utility fuel
1200
$16 million
General obligation bonds
Pope, Evans, and Robbins Consulting Engineers
Based on a feasibility ady by Pope, Evans and Robbins, Consulting
Engineers, New York, the County Executive recommended and the County
Council approved a ten year solid waste management plan calling for a
1200 ton per day county-owned and operated resource recovery system,
producing magnetic metals and shredded waste fuel to be used as a
supplement to coal in Potomac Electric Power Company's Dickerson, Md.
plant.
The $16 million for the central processing facility has been approved
in the county's budget and will probably be obtained by general obligation
bonds. Funding for the $4 million receiving and firing facility at
Dickerson has not been yet arranged.
A site selection study identified five candidate sites. The site
selection process began with hearings on September 19, 1974.
As an interim solution until the resource recovery facility is
operating,, the County has entertained bid to rail haul its waste to
West Virginia or western-Maryland for strip-mine reclamation.
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Project Description
LOCATION:
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In preliminary investigation stage
Montgomery County (Dayton), Ohio
Dave Sussman
Ernie Philpot, Administrator
County Sanitary Department
Montgomery. County Administration Bldg.
Dayton, Ohio
Tel. - 513-225-4933
Investigating the Bureau of Mines process of
heavy fraction separation with the use of
shredded waste as a fuel.
600
jneral obligation bonds
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Project Description
H3CATION: Mt. Vernon, Ne*r York
EPA CONTACT: Yvonne Garbe
PROJECT CONTACT: Seymour Lefkowitz
Intergovernmental Coordinator
City Hall
Mt. Vernon, New York
(914) 668-0737
PROJECT TYPE: Gas Pyrolysis
TONS/DAY: 400
CAPITAL COST:
METHOD OF FINANCING:
CONTRACTOR: Union Carbide (Proposed)
Project Status
Mt, Vernon, as part of the Westchester County, New York plan, intends to ,
build a 400 TPD Union Car)"' "1o Purox system which will serve Mt. Vernon and the
communities of North Pellia Pelham and Pelham Manor. The gas produced will
be used to generate electricity which will be sold to Consolidated Edison
Company.
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Project Description
LOCATION
EPA CONTACT:
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Nashville, TN
Steve Levy
Carl Avers, General Manager
Nashville Thermal Transfer Corp.
110 1st Ave. S.
Nashville, Tenn. 37201
Tel. - 615-255-1460
Waterwall incineration to produce steam
for district heating and cooling.
720
$18.5 million, including complete steam
distribution system.
Thirty year revenue bonds.
I.C. Thomasson & Assoc. - design engineers.
Operational. Construction has been completed but inability to wet spray chambers
to adequately clean up fahe stack emissions prevents operation. Spray
chambers are currently being redesigned. Plant is meeting its
obligations for steam and chilled water by burning fossil fuel.
Nashville Thermal Transfer Corporation is a non-profit public authority,
created by the City, but operated independently of the City. The project
was initiated originally as a fossil fuel fired steam distribution system
in conjunction with an ongoing urban renewal program. The use of solid
waste as the primary fuel was added to the project after the steam market
was assured.
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Project Description
LOCATION: New Britain, Connecticut
EPA CONTACT: Robert Holloway
PROJECT CONTACT: Richard Chase
CRRA; Connecticut Resource Recovery
Authority
60 Washington Street
Suite 1305
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
Tele: 203-549-6390
TONS/DAY: 1800
CAPITAL COST: $22 million
METHOD OF FINANCING: Revenue bonds.
CONTRACTOR: CEA (Combustion Equipment Assoc. , line.)
Project Status
CEA proposes to produce Eco-Fuel II for the Wallingford
power plant (city owned). The waste fuel will reportedly be
mixed with fuel oil and fired in combination into the existing
boiler. (Ability of Wallingford plant to accept large amounts
of fuel unknown to EPA) . A contract has not yet been signed.
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Project Description
New Orleans, Louisiana
EPA CONTACT: Yvonne Garbe
PROJECT CONTACT: Frank Bernheisel
National Center for Resource Recovery, Inc.
1211 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 223-6154
PROJECT TYPE: Materials Recovery
TONS/DAY: 650
CAPITAL COST: $5.7 million
METHOD OF FINANCING: Private (Waste Management, Inc.)
CONTRACTOR: Waste Management
Project Status
City has given final ; -^"oval to a contract with Waste Management to
construct, own, and operate facility which will recover glass, ferrcus
and nonferrous metals, and paper from the solid waste stream. System was
designed by the National Center for Resource Recovery, who will act as
Technical Advisor to the City and will .monitor the construction and
operation of the facility.
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Project Description
LOCATION:
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PROJECT TYPE:
Palmer Township, Pa.
Steve Levy
H. Robert Daws, Chairman
Board of Supervisors
Palmer Township Mimicipal Bldg.
3245 Freemansburg Ave.
Easton, Pa. 18042
Use of solid waste as a fuel in a cement kiln.
TONS/DAY;
CAPITAL COST:
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Project. Status
150 tons per 8 hr. shift. Plant could handle
500 TPD on a 24 hr. schedule
Estimated to be $2 million
50% financing expected from state, rest
from township
Eto and Rhodes, Lnc - consulting engineers
The feasibility study has been completed and the project now requires
approval from the Board of Supervisors^ Refuse will first be shredded
to palletize combustible fraction. Pellets will then be mixed with
coal for pulverization in existing mills used to pulverize coal.
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Project Description
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San Diego County, CA
Steven J. Levy
Case Houson, Director
Dept. of Sanitation & Flood Control
5555 Overland Ave., San Diego, Calif.
Tel. - 714-565-5329
Pyrolysis to produce a liquid fuel
200
$6.4 million
EPA demonstration grant - $3.5 million
County -$2.0 million
Garrett Research and Developirent Company, Inc. -$3.5
Garrett Research and Development Co. million
Project Status
Project is in the desi stage with construction to begin in early 1975.
Garrett has turnkey responsibility for design and construction of the
complete facility. The liquid fuel product will be used, by the San Diego
Gas and Electric Company as a supplement to No. 6 Fuel Oil in an oil
fired steam electric power plant.' Nearly one barrel of oil is produced
from each ton of solid waste.
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Project Description
Saugus, Massachusetts
EPA. CONTACT: Harry Butler
PROTECT CONTACT: W.C. Stephens
Energy Systems Division
Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc.
299 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
PROJECT TYPE: Waterwall Incinerator
TONS/DAY: 1200
CAPITAL COST: $30 Million
METHOD OF FINANCING: Private
CONTRACTOR: RRSCO
Project Status
RESCO (Refuse Energy Systems Company), a joint venture of De Matteo
Construction Cortpany and Vheelabrator-Frye, is constructing a waterwall
incinerator in Saugus, Massachusetts. The steam generated will be sold
to the General Electric Company plant at Lynnf Massachusetts, across the
Saugus River. The plant's input refuse will corre from some 16 communities
north of Boston. Construction is scheduled to be completed by mid 1975.
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Project Description
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
EPA- CONTACT: Alan Shiplepsky
PROJECT CONTACT: -Paul Disario
Office of Management and Budget
City Hall
Seattle, Washington
PROJECT TYPE: Pyrolysis to generate rrethane gas,
followed by chemical processing into
rnethanol.
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City is interested, but financing may be a problem.
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Project Description
LOCATION: St. Louis, Missouri
EPA CONTACT: Robert Bolloway
PROJECT CONTACT: David Klumb
Union Electric Company
P.O. Box 149
St. Louis, Mo. 63166
(314) 621-3222 X3175
PROJECT TYPE: Waste as fuel; material recovery
TONS/DAY: 8,000
CAPITAL COST: $70 million
METHOD OF FINANCING: Pollution Control Revenue Bond
CONTRACTOR: Homer & Shifrin, Inc.
Project Status^
Union Electric has been participating since 1969 with the City of
St. Louis and EPA in a demonstration project to assess the feasibility
of firing prepared waste as supplementary fuel into an existing coal-
fired utility toiler.
The dertonstration project has been generally successful. UE is
confident that the concept is feasible, as evidenced by their February,
1974 announcement to inplement a $70 million 8,000 ton per day program.
UE plans to accept raw waste (2,000 tpd at the Meramec Plant, and
6,000 tpd at the Labadie Plant) and prepare it for use as fuel. In
addition, netals and glass will be recovered.
In September, 1974, UE ordered 11 air classifiers at a cost of over
$4 MM. UE says that additional contracts will be awarded in late Septernber
and October.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Robert Randol
Edward Bales
Office of Tributary Area Developmant
TVA
Knoxville, Tennessee
Tel. - 615-637-0101 Ext. 2185
Authority wide fuel recovery plan
7400
$20 million
TVA debt financed
Several
TVA is involved in all -bases of development in area served by it.
This covers parts of 7 states and a population of 7 million. About
8 million tons/year of solid waste are generated in the area. TVA
provides technical assistance to cities and counties throughout the
region; it,does not have grants or other means of fiscal support.
Staff is developing a plan for solid waste resource recovery that
would handle most of the waste generated within the region and its
fringe areas. TVA forsees installing refuse processing plants at a
half-dozen or so of its coal-fired power plants. The total system
as envisioned by TVA would be able to handle 7400 TPD of solid waste
and would provide 7 percent of TVA's total energy needs. TVA uses 35 million
TPY of coal; hence its plants would realize a savings of 2 million TPY
of coal (75% of TVA's power is supplied by coal fired boilers) .
The system would consist of the following plants:
Chattaxiooga-Knoxville - a 2000 TPD facility at Watts-Bar power plant
would use a Torrax system to produce combustible gas and would rai]
haul refuse to the plant. The plant would also recover aluminum,
glass, and ferrous metal.
Memphis - TVA would like to see Memphis use Sira's pelletizing system.
Ashville - 600 TPD plant utilizing Sira pelletized systan.
Puducah - 1000 TPD plant
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( continued)
Mussel Shoals - 1000 TPD plant to use pelletized fuel.
Nashville - would not be a part of TVA. plan because it already has a
city facility for energy recovery.
TVA's timetable calls for implementation during 1975.
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Washington, D.C.
Robert Holloway
Walter A. Scheiber
Chairman
Metropolitan - Washington COG
1-95 Policy Committee
Tel. - 202-223-6800
Waste as fuel - probably to PEPCO, but NCRR
looking for other fuel users
600 - 1300
Federal appropriation
Undecided
Project Status
Pilot plant to operational by Summer of 1975; 10-15 tpd of shredded, classified
waste from NCRR's pilot equipment at B.C.'s Reduction Center No. 1
will be transported to the adjacent PEPCO Benning Paver Station.
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Project Desgrigticn
MCATICN: Vfestchester County, New York
EPA CONTACT: Yvonne Garbe
PROJECT CONTACT: Robert Dennison
Correnissioner of Public Works
County Office Building
White Plains, New York
(914) 682-2537
PROJECT TYPE: County Plan
TONS/DAY:
CAPITAL COST: $105 Million
METHOD OF FINANCING:
OMTRACTOR:
Project Status
County Plan calls for upgrading 3 or 4 existing incinerators and installing
a Bureau of Mines incinerator recovery system, for building a thermal reduction
facility at the County's Grasslands Reservation, for closing the Croton Landfills
and for building a 400 tpd Union Carbide Purox System in Mt. Vernon. The
County is- divided in the plan into eight waste sheds for solid waste management
and resource recovery„ Under the plan, the County assumes responsibility for
solid waste disposal.
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Wilmington, Delaware
Robert Holloway
Pasquale S. Canzano
Department of Natural Resources and
Environmental Control
State of Delaware
Dover, Delaware 19901
(302) 678-4781
Solid waste as fuel in oil fired
utility boiler; sewage sludge will
be processed; subsystems will include
composting,, pyrolysis, and materials
recovery (ferrous, aluminum, glass).
500 (One shift)
$20 million
State General Obligation Bonds; EPA grants,
about $13 million
Turn-key; To be bid coupetitively w/RFP
Nine million dollars EPA resource recovery grant awarded to State of Delaware in Oct.,,
1972. As a result of negotiations between EPA and Delaware over conditions
of the grant agreement, Delaware accepted EPA's recortirendation not to
compost the waste fuel to be burned in a Delmarva Power and Light Co.
oil-fired boiler. Resolution of conditions and paper work required to
amend project have delayed project about two years.
Delaware will apply for an EPA Step III Water Construction Grant for
those facilities that handle sludge. Delaware plans to ask for $4-5 MA in
EPA Water Funds.
Delaware hopes to develop an RFP package by November, 1974.
contract should be signed by Summer, 1975.
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