U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Technical Information Service
PB-266 562
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NEW YORK
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE DEPARTMENT
LITTLE VALLEY, NEW YORK
PREPARED FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, WASHINGTON, D. C,
1977
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CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NEW YORK,
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
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U. S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
1977
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA
SHEET
1. Report No.
3. Recipient's Accession No.
PB-266 562
4. Title and Subtitle
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NEW YORK
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
5. Report Dace
1977
6.
7. Author(s)
Barton Brown Clyde & Loquidice Engineers
8. Performing Organization Rept.
9. Performing Organization Name and Address
Cattaraugus County Refuse Department
200 Erie Street
Little Valley, New York 14755
10. Project/Task/Worlc Unit No.
11. Contract/Grant No.
801774
12. Sponsoring Organization Name and Address
Office of Solid Waste
U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D. C. 20460
13. Type of Report & Period
Covered
Final
14.
15. Supplementary Notes
16. Abstracts
This report summarizes the planning and implementation of a
county wide solid waste system for Cattaraugus County. The system
consists of two sanitary landfills and seven convenience stations.
Use of convenience stations is limited to individuals hauling small
amounts of refuse, which is loaded into refuse containers and
transferred to one of the sanitary landfills for disposal.
17. Key Words and Document Analysis. 17o. Descriptors
Sanitary landfill, transfer stations
Rural Collection System, costs
generation of solid wastes
17b. Identifiers/Open-Ended Terms
Waste collection and disposal
Solid waste planning
17c. COSATI Field/Group
18. Availability Statement
Available from National Technical Infor-
mation Service, Springfield, VA 22161
FORM NTis-38
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This report has been reviewed by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency and approved for publication. Its publication does not signify
that the contents necessarily reflect the views and policies of the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency nor does mention of commercial
products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the U.S.
Government.
An environmental protection publication (SW-Slid) in the solid waste
management series.
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FOREWORD
In April 1973 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
awarded a demonstration grant to Cattaraugus County, New York
to demonstrate a rural solid waste disposal system consisting
of two county operated sanitary landfills and a series of
transfer stations. This publication reports on the planning,
implementation, and operation of this project. At the time
that this report was prepared, construction was not completed
on all the transfer stations. However, several of the stations
were in operation long enough to provide realistic costs
for this system. This concept of providing several small
transfer stations throughout a predominately rural county
should be viewed by rural solid waste planners as a possible
alternative to a "green box" or a "mail box" collection
system.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
REPORT SUMMARY 1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3
CATTARAUGUS PROFILE 4
GENERAL 4
CLIMATE 4
TOPOGRAPHY 5
SOILS 6
TRANSPORTATION 6
RECREATION 8
LAND USE 9
POPULATION & ECONOMIC BASE 9
HISTORY OF SOLID WASTE 11
PAST SOLID WASTE CONDITIONS AND PRACTICES 25
IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM 31
FIVE POINTS SANITARY LANDFILL 31
FARWELL SANITARY LANDFILL 40
TRANSFER SYSTEM 48
ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCING 54
CLOSING OPEN DUMPS 57
WATER MONITORING PROGRAM 60
LIQUID WASTE DISPOSAL 61
PUBLIC RELATIONS 62
BIBLIOGRAPHY 66
APPENDICES 67
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TABLES AND FIGURES
TABLE
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2.
Status of Municipal Disposal in 1971 26
Population and Refuse Generation 30
FIGURE
1. Cattaraugus County Refuse System - 1975 22
2. Five Points Convenience Station 33
3. Five Points Sanitary Landfill 33
4. Five Points Sanitary Landfill 36
5. Farewell Sanitary Landfill 41
6. Machias Convenience Station 51
7. Machian Convenience Station 51
8. Onoville Convenience Station 53
9. Farwell Convenience Station 53
10. Sanitary Landfill Workshop Schedule 65
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APPENDICES
APPENDIX
A STATE OF NEW YORK
B CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE DISPOSAL -
MONTHLY QUANTITIES
C FIVE POINTS SANITARY LANDFILL MAINTENANCE BUILDING
D FARWELL SANITARY LANDFILL MAINTENANCE BUILDING
E TIMBER TRANSFER SHELTER
F CAPITAL EXPENDITURES REPORT SUMMARY
G 1975 ANNUAL REPORT - OPERATING EXPENSES
H CONVENIENCE SYSTEM - CAPITAL COST ESTIMATE
I LOCAL LAW NUMBER 4-1973
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CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NEW YORK
SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
Barton Brown Clyde & Loguidice, P. C.
Introduction
Report Summary. Cattaraugus County in 1967 had the foresight
to look into the problem of solid waste disposal before problems
reached the level of severity. Through detailed study and planning
and with monetary assistance from various arms of government,
including a Demonstration Grant from the United States Environmental
Protection Agency, a county-wide plan was developed and implemented.
Both program development and implementation were staged due
to changes in existing technologies, economics, and availability
of land for sanitary landfill sites.
When implementation is completed Cattaraugus County will
operate two sanitary landfills and seven convenience stations.
Use of the convenience stations is limited to individuals hauling
small amounts of refuse, which is loaded into refuse containers
and transferred to one of the sanitary landfills for disposal.
The impetus for this project was the desire to provide a
clean and virtually litter free county while providing an
efficient and economical method of disposing of solid waste in
a safe, healthy and legal manner.
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The purpose of this report is to present information on
the program in order that it may be reviewed by others to assist
them in making the decisions that Cattaraugus County has already
faced.
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Acknowledgments
The Cattaraugus County Solid Waste Disposal System Report
was initiated by the Cattaraugus County Legislature and
financially assisted through a Federal Grant from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
We wish to acknowledge the cooperation of the following
individuals whose assistance in the preparation of this report
has been immeasurable. The staff of the Cattaraugus County
Refuse Department, under the direction of William W. White,
Administrator, and including Linda Shelton and Lucille Halsaver,
for providing detailed information on the operation of the
Department and its facilities. To Mr. Dolf Bonenberger,
Cattaraugus County Director of Planning and former Administrator
of the Refuse Agency and Mr. Chester Halgas, Cattaraugus County
Environmental Health Engineer, for providing information on the
history of the refuse program in Cattaraugus County prior to the
inception of the Refuse Department.
Further, we acknowledge the participation of the consulting
engineering firms of Hazen and Sawyer, New York, New York and
Wendel Associates, Lockport, New York for their reports and designs
compiled while serving the County during various phases of the
Refuse Program. Much information contained in this report was
derived as a result of the services performed by these firms.
The valued assistance of the above, without which this report
could not have been compiled, is genuinely appreciated.
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Cattaraugus Profile
General. Cattaraugus is one of the larger counties in
New York State, extending over 1,300 square miles (3,367 square
kilometers) and includes 32 towns, 13 villages, 2 cities,
3 Indian Reservations, and a State Park. The County occupies
a portion of southwestern New York State and borders to the
south on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Despite a relatively small population and a terrain which
has concentrated development in less than 3 percent of the
available land, Cattaraugus County is remarkably diverse
economically and culturally. The County contains some 1^00
farms (and is one of the State's top ten dairy counties), yet
more than 40 percent of personal income is generated by
manufacturing concerns. The heterogeneous population includes
some 4600 Seneca Indians (about 6 percent of the County's
population), and a community of Amish farmers.
Climate. The County has a cold continental climate.
Mean temperatures range from 24°F (-4.4°C) in January to
68°F (20°C) in July. The ground and lakes generally remain
frozen between December and March. Natural stream temperatures
range from 32°F (0°C) in winter to 80°F (26.7°C) in summer.
Extremely heavy snows fall along the high ridges near Lake
Erie. Average annual precipitation varies from 60 (152.4) to
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105 (266.7) inches (centimeters) for the county as a whole.
Snowfall exceeds 200 inches (508 centimeters) in some years
in the traditional "snow belt" regions, including Little
Valley, Ellicottville and West Valley; while the average annual
snowfall in the entire county varies between 60 (152.4) to
105 (266.7) inches (centimeters). Seasonal variations in
precipitation cause surface waterways to overrun their banks,
usually in the spring months and then register no flow during
the dry late summer months.
Topography. The topography of the county is varied. Most
of the county lies on the Allegheny plateau, a rolling upland
expanse cut by numerous steeply walled valleys. The most rugged
topography and the highest elevations occupy the southern part
of the county. Peaks there rise to more than 2/400 feet (731.5
meters) above sea level. More than 42 percent of the southern
sector of the county is sloped at a 15 percent grade. In the
western and northwestern part of the county, the terrain softens
and rolls more gently into the Erie Lake Plain.
The major streams in the county have carved out wide valleys
which contain good agricultural land; the flatter terrain has
also encouraged urban development and transportation routes.
These ancient bedrock valleys are filled with deep glacial
deposits. Most streams, like the Allegheny River, have relatively
mild slopes. The Cattaraugus Creek and its tributaries, however,
descend steeply from the Allegheny plateau into deep gorges cut
into the bedrock.
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The divide between the Cattaraugus Creek and the Allegheny
River drainage basins is the Mississippi-St. Lawrence continental
divide. The line of the divide through the county is determined
by the high points of glacial deposits in the north-south valleys.
Soils. A majority of the soils found in Cattaraugus County
were derived from glacial till and outwash deposits consisting
primarily of gray shales, sandstones, and siltstones dating
from the Upper Devonian age. The outwash and alluvial deposits
predominate in the valleys; glacial till predominates in the
northern uplands, residual soils in the southern uplands.
Various drainage problems stem from two soil-related sources:
a wide-spread occurence of "fragipans", highly compacted glacial
clays found at a shallow depth in the subsoil; and, the
impermeable nature of the subsurface shales which occur through
the county.
The best soils are found in the broad, flat valleys and on
the more gently sloping hillsides.
Transportation. About 2dOO miles (3,380 Kilometers) of
municipally maintained highways serve Cattaraugus County.
There are no interstate highway connections in the County, but
rapid transportation is available on State Routes 17 and 16,
and on U.S. 219. Route 17 runs east and west through the southern,
more heavily populated, section of the County. To the east the
highway connects Cattaraugus County to Corning, Elmira,
Binghamton, and New York City. To the west, Route 17 connects
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with Interstate 90 (The New York Thruway) some thirty miles from
Erie, Pennsylvania. Route 17 traverses some of the most beautiful
countryside in the State and provides quick and interesting
access to the County for vacationers from the larger eastern
cities. Route 219, which passes between the two largest
population centers in the County (Olean and Salamanca), connects
the County with Buffalo to the north and Pittsburgh, Pa. to the
south. Route 16 runs generally parallel to U.S. 219; it connects
Olean directly with the major metropolitan Buffalo area.
Most of the County's roads are maintained by individual towns
and villages; only a third of the total mileage falls under County
or State control.
Three railroad lines, maintaining 205 miles (330 Kilometers)
of track, serve Cattaraugus County. Principal Connections include
Buffalo to the north, Rochester to the northeast, Jamestown and
Erie, Pennsylvania, to the west, New York City to the east, and
Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Washington, D.C. to the southeast.
There are twleve airports of various sizes in the county,
including Olean Municipal. All twelve serve small, private
airplanes. Commercial connections are available at Buffalo
International, Bradford-McKean Airport, or Jamestown Airport.
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Recreation. Cattaraugus County is rapidly becoming a year
round recreational haven. The heavy snows spawned by Lake Erie
promote excellent skiing; major ski centers are now located in
Ellicottville and Allegany. Other ski resorts-are cropping
up in New Albion, in Red House on the Allegany State Park grounds,
and in Machias.
Allegany State Park, besides providing skiing facilities
for the winter sportsman, has many activities and points of
interest for the summer vactioner. Campers can hike, swim, boat,
even visit the first oil well drilled in New York without leaving
the Park's grounds. And at Onoville, across the Allegheny Reservoir
from the Park, visitors can use the launch facilities and moorings,
the picnic area, and camp ground built in a joint effort by the
County and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The county also
offers abundant game for the fisherman and hunter.
For a change of pace, the recreation facilities in the county
also include the County Museum and the Old Indian Fort in Little
Valley. There are almost a dozen golf courses spread throughout
the county.
Projections by the New York State Conservation Department
indicate that recreational opportunities and the number of resorts
and vacation homes will increase dramatically over the next 25
years.
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Land Use. More than 75 percent of Cattaraugus County's
population live in widely scattered small towns and villages.
The largest metropolitan area, Clean, holds 35,000 people;
Salamanca and Gowanda, the next largest population centers,
house 10,000 and 5,000 respectively. No other community has
more than 3,000 people. Less than 3 percent of the County's
land is developed for residential, commercial, industrial, or
public use. More than half the county is woodland.
Though considerable areas in the county are undevelopable
because of excessive slopes or poor drainage, Cattaraugus has
enormous space available for future development. The county can
expect much of this growth, and the attendant land use, to be
more and more involved with recreational facilities and vacation
or second homes.
Population and Economic Base. In 1970, the population of
Cattaraugus County was recorded as 81,666 according to U.S.
Census figures. Projections of future population growth by the
New York State Office of Planning Services estimated that by 1980
the population will grow to about 82,563, and that the population
in 1990 will stand at 83,226.
The economic base of Cattaraugus County is well diversified,
divided among agriculture and forestry, manufacturing, recreation,
and extractive industries (primarily oil). Among the leading
manufactured products are furniture, cutlery, ceramic tile, glue,
dairy, leather, and chemical products. The present trend,
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however, is towards newer industries-electronics/ plastics,
metal working, chemicals, and machinery. These industries require
fewer people in relation to their output, but they require more
highly trained and skilled personnel.
The 1969 mean income for the 19,680 families in the County
was $9,518. Per capita income averaged $2,603. Manufacturing
accounted for 41 percent of personal income.
Projections predict a 50 percent increase in total jobs in
the County between 1960 and 2020. During this period, agricultural
jobs will decline, and manufacturing jobs will increase by about
20 percent. The largest increase will be in service industries
and the wholesale-retail trade. This increase will reflect,
among other factors, the developing importance of resorts,
recreation areas, and vacation homes.
The county contains thirteen public school districts, six
parochial elementary schools, and one parochial high school.
Cattaraugus is one of the few counties in New York State
without a branch of the State University. St. Bonaventure
University is the only degree-granting institution in the
County. The Board of Co-operative Education Services (BOCES)
provides numerous services to the County including adult education,
vocational and technical courses, programs for handicapped
children, data processing, and specialized education programs.
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History of Solid Waste
In February, 1967, the County Board of Supervisors created
the Cattaraugus County Refuse Agency to develop a county-wide
program of refuse management. Its initial purpose was to study
the character and magnitude of the refuse disposal problem on
an intermunicipal basis. During the summer of 1967, Allegany,
Olean, Portville, and Hinsdale formed the Olean Regional
Planning Council to consider in conjunction with the Agency,
refuse disposal and collection problems in that area. Both
groups attempted to push inter-municipal cooperation and were
in agreement that it would be most economical to have one
sanitary landfill to serve the southeast part of the County. By
fall the council had surveyed twenty possible disposal sites and
had rejected all but four. One site, in the Town of Olean,
emerged from the four but the concept failed to gain total
acceptance when the Town of Olean decided it didn't want the
landfill on Town property, the City of Olean became concerned
about deteriorating water quality, and Felmont Oil expressed
concern that increased hardness of the groundwater in the area
of the landfill might result. The objections became impossible
to overcome and the landfill idea for this area was abandoned.
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In the spring of 1968, the Refuse Agency submitted a funding
application for a planning grant to the Department of Housing and
Urban Development. The grant was approved that fall, and the firm
of Hazen and Sawyer, Engineers, was awarded the contract to produce
the county-wide refuse disposal study financially aided through
the HUD grant under the Urban Planning Assistance Program. The
report was financed in part by the State of New York. Meanwhile
the County Health and Planning Departments collected data to
compile a County-wide refuse disposal and collection inventory.
The more notable findings of the report included the existence
of over 80 land disposal sites in the County, the abundance of
land at low cost making sanitary landfill the most economic and
•practical method of disposal and the inability of individual
municipalities to cope economically and efficiently with collection
and disposal of solid waste.
The Hazen and Sawyer report was released in December, 1969.
The failure of this approach was probably attributable to the
fact that towns and villages, were at the time, allowed to get by
with substandard facilities and few, if any towns, were prepared
to accept refuse from other towns. The problem of cost association
could also be a contributing factor with Towns comparing the
minimal cost to run their marginal landfills with the true cost
to operate a proper sanitary landfill consistent with all
existing rules and regulations. The report issued seven major
recommendations:
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1) Reconstitute the County Refuse Agency to administer,
plan, and operate refuse collection and disposal facilities.
Initially, the activities of the Agency should be directed towards
the implementation of the adopted disposal program.
2) Create County Refuse Districts among interested
municipalities as an interim step towards adoption of a County-wide
collection and disposal system.
3) Conduct more detailed soils investigations of recommended
disposal sites and negotiate for the acquisition of the most
suitable sites based on projected land requirements.
4) Initiate sanitary landfill operations at newly acquired
sites, and terminate all existing disposal sites in service areas.
5) Develop a plan for disposal of junked automobiles and
bulky wastes possibly utilizing abandoned mining pits.
6) Request a Federal Demonstration Grant to study further
the feasibility of utilizing portable containers in rural areas
for refuse storage and transfer to sanitary landfills.
7) Engage the service of a consultant to develop a
detailed plan for County-wide refuse collection in areas of high
population density, including personnel assignments, equipment
requirements and optimum collection routes.
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After the release of the report/ the Agency encouraged the
creation of four refuse districts in the northwest, northcentral,
northeast and southeast sections of the County. The Agency
conducted numerous meetings throughout the County to explain
the proposed system and to solicit the support or individual
municipalities. Also studied in the interim report was the
concept of county-wide refuse collection. The County
Legislature in approving the four-district alternative requested
further study of the landfill-transfer system only.
1970 marked a turning point in the history of the Agency.
In May, the Hazen and Sawyer report was accepted by the County
Legislature. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service aided the
Agency in landfill site investigations throughout the County.
In each of six major regions, between 3 and 12 sites were
identified and rated on the basis of location, adjacent land
use, access, surface soils, and probable working conditions.
During 1970 the N.Y. State Legislature enacted legislation
permitting any county to undertake refuse disposal and collection
as a county function rather than a district function. In
September, the Agency began to discuss a County-wide program of
refuse disposal as an alternative to numerous district arrangements.
In light of the new State legislation, the Agency solicited support
from municipalities for a complete County-wide refuse collection
and disposal system.
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In December, 1970, the Agency was reconstituted by the
County Legislature and given new membership. The Legislature
empowered the Agency to hire engineering assistance to prepare
plans for the development of land disposal sites in the County
along with an organizational plan for implementing the findings
of the comprehensive refuse study. Both the County Planning
Department and the Health Department were represented in the
new Agency. By March the Planning and Health Departments had
reported on potential landfill sites in the County, soil
investigations were conducted by the Soil Conservation Service,
and options were taken on various sites.
Early in 1971 the Agency began work on drawing a program
of solid waste collection and disposal for the entire County.
Wendel Associates was retained and along with the County Planning
and Health Departments generally assisted the Agency in compiling
data and preparing the Interim Report. In April Wendel Associates
made its initial presentation to the Agency outlining the first
detailed discussion of substituting transfer stations for some
of the six proposed sanitary landfill facilities. The six
service area arrangement had been proposed in an earlier study
and would provide local accessibility to most of the County's
population. The Agency continued study of a system consisting
of two sanitary landfills and four transfer stations as opposed
to a six sanitary landfill system. Their findings showed that
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the latter option involved 35 percent more capital expense and
38 percent more annual operating expense. After reviewing their
findings the Agency adopted the combination landfill-transfer
system and on the basis of these and other findings prepared the
Interim Report. The report suggested that landfills be placed
in the southeastern and northcentral portions of the County,
transfer stations were recommended for the Dayton-Markham area
in the Northwest, the Randolph-East Randolph area in the
Southwest, Route 219 north of Salamanca in the Southcentral
region, and the Machias area in the Northeast. The Report was
presented to the Legislature by the Agency in early June and the
reaction of the governing body was in agreement with the
landfill-transfer program. The Report also recommended that the
Legislature secure, as soon as possible, some 98 acres (40
hectares) of land to serve the north central part of the County
os a landfill. That site, known as Five Points, and located
about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of Little Valley was purchased
on June 23, 1971 for $25,000.
Planning, budgeting, interviewing consultants to prepare
engineering designs, and optioning transfer sites filled the year
between the fall of 1971 and November, 1972. Early in 1972
Wendel Associates was asked to proceed with the development of
a final report on the two landfill, four transfer station plan.
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In February, March, and April of 1972 the Agency applied
for three grants which/ over a period of about a year, were all
approved.
1) Environmental Protection Agency Demonstration Grant
supplied $194,493.
2) Farmers Home Administration Grant for capital supplied
$100,000 in grant aid and a $350,000 loan at 5 percent interest.
3) New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Grant provided 50 percent of engineering costs plus 25 percent
to be applied to the transfer station construction. The latter
funding came from monies available under the Environmental Bond
Issue.
In June of 1972 the County set up an emergency landfill in
order to handle the large volume of refuse resulting from floods
which occurred in the County. The site was located on Struble
Hollow Road in the Town of Olean. In excess of 900 tons (816.5
tonnes) of debris washed up by the flood were dumped in a day
and a half including merchandise from area stores destroyed or
contaminated and household articles. The site was open from
8 A.M. until dark and was operated by a private contractor and
supervised by the Refuse Agency. It was estimated to cost
$1000 a day to operate the facility.
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The Agency secured two transfer station sites (in Dayton
and in Machias) in November. Also in that month, the City of
Clean was compelled to open a temporary landfill, located in the
Town of Ischua, because no permanent landfill site had yet been
designated in the Clean area.
By April, 1973, the Wendel Associates operational report was
complete. It outlined each step the County Legislature and the
Agency had to take over the next several months to ensure the proper
development, design, administration of the County-wide disposal
plan.
The report concluded that:
1) The operational program proposed agrees with the
Comprehensive Refuse Collection and Disposal Plan and is the result
of actions taken by the Cattaraugus County Legislature following
their review of the Interim Report prepared in 1971 by the Refuse
Agency.
2) The proposed operational plan seems to distribute charges
fairly under the options provided by law, and intends to treat all
persons, businesses, industries, institutions and others on a
complete equal basis based on the amount of refuse disposed by
the user.
3) All aid programs with funds committed to the "5-Points"
Project are conditioned on a deadline for operation of September 1,
1973. The aggregate of funds thus conditioned is in excess of
$300,000.
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The report then recommended that:
1) The Cattaraugus County Legislature accept and approve
the Operational Plan.
2) The Cattaraugus County Legislature authorize Final Plans
and Specifications for the "5-Points" Landfill.
3) The Cattaraugus County Legislature approve continuance or
re-constitution of the Cattaraugus Refuse Agency as the permanent
administrative body for the Refuse Program.
4) The Cattaraugus County Legislature take the necessary
steps to create the Cattaraugus County Refuse Local Law as
recommended by the Cattaraugus County Refuse Agency.
5) The Cattaraugus County Legislature authorize the staffing
of the Agency, following determination of duties and qualifications
for each position to be filled, and provide the necessary office
space.
6) The Cattaraugus County Legislature authorize the Refuse
Agency to take all steps necessary to gain final approvals of Plans
and Specifications and to take such actions as are then necessary
to develop the facilities, to advertise for and take bids and to
proceed with minimum delay to make the system operational in the
"5-Points" Service Area.
7) The Cattaraugus County Legislature continue in its
support of efforts by the Refuse Agency to obtain a satisfactory,
long term Disposal Program for the Olean Service Area.
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8) Until such time as a functioning program is possible
for the 'Olean" Service Area, any emergency conditions involving
solid waste, where public health is in question, should be
handled by the facilities of the "5-Points" Service Area.
In June a detailed report was prepared by the Agency and
presented to the County Legislature outlining every step and
action required on the part of both the Agency and the Legislature
to implement the program. At this time public relations efforts were
increased through the maintenance of a booth at the County Fair
and news releases.
One month after the County Legislature received the report,
the Ischua Landfill site was purchased to serve the Olean area.
Also in the summer of 1973, the County Legislature added two more.
proposed transfer stations in Allegany and Portville to the transfer
concept, transfer station sites were optioned in two locations,
and the consultants presented operating plans for the Mansfield
Sanitary Landfill. In August, Mr. William White was appointed
Administrator of the Refuse Program.
In the fall of 1973 the Legislature approved the execution
of the option for the Machias transfer site and competitive bidding
and purchase of equipment for both the sanitary landfills and
the transfer stations commenced.
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In early 1974, upon implementation of the system, the
County Legislature designated the responsibility for operation
of the solid waste system to the Refuse Committee of the
Cattaraugus County Legislature and the Refuse Department head
by the Refuse Administrator.
In 1974 the concept of the full scale transfer station was
revised to a scaled down convenience station. The convenience
stations would be sized to accomodate individual users only and
would realize a substantial savings in capital and operating
costs. Temporary convenience stations were instituted in
November, 1974, and were located in Allegany and Portville.
The station consisted simply of an open top container, 30 cubic
yard (23 cubic meter) capacity, into which individuals disposed
of their refuse. These containers were then hauled to the
landfill and emptied by a local contractor. The facilities were
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well received by the individuals hauling their own wastes, who
would otherwise have a long drive to one of the two landfills. It
became apparent that hauling uncompacted refuse was very uneconomical
and in February 1975 an experimental convenience facility was
established in Machias. This facility used self-compacting
containers capable of refuse densities in excess of 500#/c.y.
(297 kilograms/cubic meter). The compaction attained decreased
the number of loads by over one-half, representing a similar
dollar savings in contract haul. The Machias station illustrates
a successful experiment in using a closed steel box with a
self-contained hydraulic compactor to double the payload.
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1 - Five Points Sanitary Landfill
2 - Farwell Sanitary Landfill
3 - Machias Convenience Station
4 - Portville Convenience Station
5 - Allegany Convenience Station
6 - Salamanca Convenience Station
7 - Onoville Convenience Station
8 - Conewango Convenience Station
9 - Dayton Convenience Station
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In June, 1975 Cattaraugus County engaged the engineering
services of Barton Brown Clyde and Loguidice, P. C. to complete
the implementation of the transfer system. The Refuse Department
and the engineers developed a system that would provide equitable
distribution of service to the residents of the County. The
system was centered around the model facility at Machias and the
concept of self-packing containers. The Machias station would be
retained, and stations constructed at Dayton, Randolph (Town of
Conewango), Onoville, Allegany , Portville and Salamanca. The
Onoville and Randolph facilities would be completely new, while
the remaining four would be replacements for the temporary open
top stations which are proving too expensive to operate. Very
few of the County's population centers would have any further than
a five mile drive to the closest facility.
The stations will be modeled after the concept instituted at
Machias, using self-packing containers except for two stations which
will use a combination of a single stationary compactor supplied
through an earlier contract and one of the self-packing containers.
Containers would be hauled to the landfill by private haulers
who would receive a County hauling contract through competitive
bidding procedures.
Open top containers for oversize, bulky waste will also be
available for use at these stations.
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The facilities would operate according to the demand for
service. In some of the lighter waste generation areas, Saturday
plus one weekday would be sufficient. In other more populus
areas, five or six day service may be necessary.
In July, 1975 the Cattaraugus County Legislature was
notified of approval of an application for a grant of $225,160
from the Appalachian Regional Commission. The grant is for
equipment and development of the on-going program of two
sanitary landfill sites and six rural transfer stations.
In September the system was presented to the Legislature
and received approval in November.
The system is anticipated to be operational by mid-1976.
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Past Solid Waste Conditions And Practices
By 1971 the disposal of solid wastes in Cattaraugus County
had become a critical problem. Disposal operations were generally
unregulated; hundreds of disposal sites, including road side
dumps, backyard burial and burning sites, and public and private
landfills which did not comply with State regulations all contributed
to unhealthy, unaesthetic, and illegal conditions. Municipalities
could not efficiently and economically contend with the problems
of refuse collection and disposal on their own, yet the county was
without a centrally administered agency to plan and operate a
county-wide system of solid waste management.
At the time, only 53 percent of the County's solid waste was
collected at all; only 8.7 percent of the waste was properly
disposed of in municipal landfills; another 3.9 percent was
removed from the County by contracted collectors.
Though a limited amount of apartments and institutions
incinerated refuse, essentially all the County's refuse was
disposed of in landfills. Most of the disposal sites were owned
and operated by Towns and Villages; some were privately maintained.
The City of Olean transported its waste to a private landfill
in Allegany County. The Peter Cooper Corporation operated a
landfill for its own industrial wastes. Industrial refuse from
the Clark Brothers (Dresser Industries) was collected and disposed
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of privately. Generally, no charge was levied for dumping at
municipal landfills and each municipality paid dumping costs
from its general budget. The County Health Department supervised
and controlled site operations to some extent.
Very few of the refuse disposal sites could be classified
as sanitary landfills. Refuse was dumped at a site and occasionally
burned or buried. The sites were frequently unattended; refuse
was not properly covered. The sites were consequently infested
by rodents and plagued by flying debris. Some salvaging
occured at these sites, but the small quantities of salvageable
material discouraged organized salvage operations.
The following table lists the municipalities, the presence
of municipal disposal areas, and the degree to which each area
complied with State regulations in existence at the time.
TABLE 1
STATUS OF MUNICIPAL DISPOSAL IN 1971
Municipality
Town of
Perrysburg
Persia
Dayton
Leon
Conewango
Randolph
South Valley
New Albion
Napoli
Coldspring
Otto
East Otto
Had Municipal
Disposal Area
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Used Private
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Compliance
Status
Poor
Fair
Fair
Fair
Fair
Fair
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Municipality
Town of
Had Municipal
Disposal Area
Compliance
Status
Mansfield
Little Valley
Salamanca
Red House
Ashford
Ellicottville
Great Valley
Car roll ton
Yorkshire
Freedom
Farmer sville
Machias
Franklinville
Lyndon
Ischua
Hinsdale
Olean
Humphrey
Allegany
Portville
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Joint with Village
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Joint with Village
Good
Good
Fair
Good
Fair
Poor
Village of
Perrysburg
Gowanda
South Dayton
Randolph
E. Randolph
Cattaraugus
Little Valley
Ellicottville
Limestone
Delevan
Franklinville
Allegany
Portville
Cities
Olean
Salamanca
Used Town
Yes
Used Private
Used Private
Used Private-
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Used Private
Yes
Good
Poor
Fair
Fair
Fair
Poor
Good
Fair
Fair
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Waste Quantities: Domestic. In 1968 the County Planning
Board and the County Health Department undertook a joint survey
to determine the quantity, type, and origin of residential waste.
The survey indicated that the County generated some 730 tons
(662 tonnes) of refuse weekly; about half the total came from
Clean, Salamanca, and Gowanda/ the three largest population centers
Per capita disposal was estimated at:
Rural population 1.5 Ibs./cap/day (0.68 kilograms/cap/day}
Urban population 2.7 Ibs./cap/day (1.22 kilograms/cap/day)
Waste Quantities; Industrial. Results of the joint survey
indicated that most of the industrial solid waste produced in
the County {+ 1,300 tons/week) (1179 tonnes/week) is disposed of
by industry on private landfills. The largest refuse contributors
were the Peter Cooper Corp., a glue manufacturer with an average
weekly waste generation of 450 tons (408 tonnes), and Clark
Brothers (Dresser Industries) which generated some 476 tons
(432 tonnes) per week of mold sand. Municipal and private haulers
collected about 505 tons (458 tonnes) per week, almost half that
amount in the Olean area.
Waste Quantities; Projections. The 1969 Hazen and Sawyer
report included Table 2 as contained in this report projecting
the population and waste generation growth patterns over a fifty
year period.
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Waste Quantities; Recent. With the commencement of
operation of the two sanitary landfill sites a method for
recording waste quantities was instituted. An updated graph
showing the monthly quantities of refuse for each facility is
included in the Appendix. Monthly quantities have been on an
increase since the opening of each facility with some minor
seasonal variations.
In 1975 it was determined that 10,100 tons (9160 tonnes)
of waste were disposed of at the Five Points Sanitary Landfill
and 22,720 tons (20/610 tonnes) at the Farwell Sanitary Landfill
The calculated individual waste generation based on the
waste received is just over 2 pounds (.907 kilograms) per capita
per day.
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TABLL 2
POPULATION AND REFUSE GENERATION
FROM: REPORT ON REFUSE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL, CATTARAUGUS
COUNTY, N.Y. by HAZEN and SAWYER, ENGINEERS
NAME
POPULATION
1968 1980 1990
REFUSE-TONS/WEEK
2020 1968 1980 1990
2020
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
VILL
VILL
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
TOWN
VILL
CITY
CITY
TOWN
TOWN
VILL
TOWN
TOWN
TOWN
TCWN
TOWN
VILL
HUMPHEREY
ISCHUA
LEON
LITTLE VALLEY
LITTLE VALLEY
LYNDON
MACHIAS
MANSFILD
NAPOLI
NEW ALBION
CATTARAUGUS
OTTO
CLEAN
PERRYSBURG
PERRYSBURG
PERSIA
GOWANDA
PORTVILLE
PORTVILLE
RANDOLPH
RANDOLPH
EAST RANDOLPH
RED HOUSE
SALAMANCA
ALLEGANY
ALLEGANY
ASHFORD
CARROLLTON
LIMESTONE
COLD SPRING
CONEWANGO
DAYTON
SOUTH DAYTON
EAST OTTO
ELL1COTTVILLE
ELLICOTTVILLE
OLEAN
SALAMANCA
FARMERSVILLE
FRANKLINVILLE
FRANKLINVILLE
FREEDOM
GREAT VALLEY
HINSDALE
SOUTH VALLEY
YORKSHIRE
DELEVAN
490
550
930
580
1250
400
1450
620
750
750
1350
750
3000
1600
550
500
3560
2100
1600
750
1500
600
240
850
5450
2050
1650
1100
530
550
1140
1350
760
680
900
1220
21200
8500
710
950
2150
1100
1450
2000
200
1550
1050
575
580
1040
665
1325
420
1525
655
825
780
1450
795
4100
1800
700
565
3720
2350
1950
815
1600
650
250
870
6900
2230
1860
1340
660
575
1400
1500
830
750
1000
1370
22400
8950
745
1000
2250
1160
1525
2690
210
2020
1450
660
600
1140
780
1400
440
1590
680
900
800
1550
840
5350
2000
860
630
3900
2600
2300
880
1700
700
260
890
8500
2400
2050
1580
800
600
1670
1640
900
785
1100
1500
23300
9400
780
1040
2350
1210
1590
3430
220
2500
1890
800
670
1320
940
1500
480
1750
750
1030
900
1700
900
7800
2310
1600
700
4300
3350
2500
960
1850
800
290
1240
11200
2700
2340
2060
1000
670
2110
1850
1010
820
1240
1700
25600
10300
860
1150
2600
1330
1750
4880
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3400
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Implementation
Five Points Sanitary Landfill. The Five Points Landfill,
which comprises some 98 acres (40 hectares) is located on Toad
Hollow Road in the Town of Mansfield. Some 19 acres (7.7 hectares)
extend north of Krager Road and will be the last employed;
another twenty acres are primarily swale area which will require
special preparation prior to landfill use.
The Five Points Sanitary Landfill is expected during its
development to serve 19 towns, 8 villages, and one city in the
western half of the County with a combined population (1970
census) of 33,403.
The primary function of the sanitary landfill, during its
years of operation, is to provide efficient and economical
disposal of refuse. But the long-term use of the entire site
and the interim use of those inoperative portions must also be
considered. Indeed, the first design considerations must
include the end use of the site. For interim use, areas not in
immediate use were committed to hay production. Plans suggested
that part of the hay crop would suffice for mulching the open-cut
and completed sections of the landfill; the remainder will be a
salable crop. Besides enhancing the economic status of the landfill,
the hay production will neither adversely affect the stability of
the soil nor interfere with the primary use of the fill.
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End use plans call for the development of a wilderness
park and campground. The interior access roads will be hard
surfaced to permit all-weather use. The planting and screening
will encourage wildlife. No environmental damage is anticipated
because of the landfill.
Preliminary plans anticipate a complete refuse disposal
facility for the Five Points Landfill. Beyond the disposal
of ordinary domestic, commercial, and industrial refuse, the
landfill can accommodate construction and demolition debris,
junked automobiles, bulky white articles (these items, generally
household appliances, can be kept in a short-term site for
recycling). The plans also recognize the need for a clean,
all-weather depository with good traffic control for private
vehicles in light of the small scale of public refuse collection
in the Five Points service area.
The plan includes the construction of an earthern berm
along the exposed Toad Hollow Road frontage to screen the operation
from the road. The berm rises to a height of 15 feet (4.6 meters),
the fill material obtained from the excavation of areas to be used
for junked autos, construction debris, and access roads. The Soil
Conservation Service was consulted and upon analysis of the site
recommended that the berm, which will become the starting face of
the landfill operation, be seeded upon construction and planted
with trees and shrubs to prevent erosion.
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Figure 2. Five Points Convenience Station - Two open container
stall private vehicle depository on right and maintenance building
on left.
Figure 3. Dozer compacting wastes at the Five Points Sanitary
Landfill. Earth berm to screen operation in background.
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During the preparation of the site for opening, gas vents
and monitoring wells were constructed to serve the area of
immediate use. Continued improvements include placement of a
slag wearing surface on the access road as the original gravel
surface failed to perform adequately under wet weather conditions.
Additional items requiring attention soon after opening in
March, 1974 included fencing, grading the road, installing guide
posts along the road and placing traffic signs in preparation
to open the facility.
After disturbing the surface in some areas it was necessary
to grade and seed the disturbed areas. With the guidance of the
Soil Conservation Service, the Refuse Department planted 2,000
red pine, twenty-four lombardy poplar and eight flowering crab
apple trees at the eight landfill and the transfer station sites.
Additionally, the Refuse Department received one hundred clones of
a hybrid aspen from the J. P. Lewis Paper Company, of Beaver Falls,
New York. The trees are part of an experiment to develop a
better and more economic source of pulp fiber and can be expected
to reach a height of fifteen feet (4.6 meters) in only 3 years.
To accommodate heavy public traffic, the preliminary plan
included a paved access road, a waiting line to protect cars from
highway traffic and entering refuse transfer trucks, and a
separate exit to Toad Hollow Road. Fencing would restrict
access to the landfill site, but it could permit 24-hour, 7-day
access to the public depository area.
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The landfill site was divided into five areas:
Area ft Area Size Useful Area Area Life
1 + 21 acres + 17 acres 3-4 years
2 + 18 acres 4- 15 acres 4-5 years
3 + 21 acres ± 17 acres 4-5 years
4 +20 acres j- 17 acres 3-4 years
5 + 19 acres +_ 14 acres 2-1/2 yrs.
Total + 98 acres + 80 acres + 18 yrs.
Areas I/ 2, and 3 were expected to receive ordinary refuse
for 11 to 14 years. Area 4 would accept inert materials like
construction and demolition materials or excess cover soil. Because
of water in the area, at least one lift of inert materials must
underlay any ordinary, organic refuse which may be deposited in
Area 4.
Area 5, standing north of Krager Road, presented special
problems of control and truck access. To be most economically
used, Area 5 will not be opened until the other four areas have
been completed.
To best utilize available space and to comply fully with
State regulations concerning landfill procedures, the preliminary
plans provided for beneficial use of the landfill site. Areas 1
and 4 would be operated under the area method; in other sectors
the initial lifts would operate under the trench method and
later be converted to -the area method. Compacted refuse would be
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FIGURE
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SANITARY
LANDFILL
AREA
SANITARY
LANDFILL
AREA
SANITARY
LANDFILL
AREA
ACCESS
ROAD
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SANITARY /
LANDFILL /
AREA /
SANITARY
LANDFILL
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MAINTENANC
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FIVE POINTS SANITARY LANDFILL
TOWN OF MANSFIELD
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY, NEW YORK
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covered with 6 inches (15 cm) of cover. A completed area would
receive at least 24 inches (61 cm) of soil cover.
The formulation of the preliminary plans and preparation of
the landfill site to accommodate those plans were predicated on
careful analyses of the surface water conditions, geological
and ground water conditions/ obstructions and cover material.
Before development/ surface drainage presented some
difficulties. In cooperation with the County Refuse Agency, the
Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of
Agriculture prepared a soil drainage plan for the site. Surface
drainage on site travels from west to east with a sloping from
north and south to the center of the main parcel. A culvert,
existing in Area 4, to which the drainage flows, carries water
across Toad Hollow Road and away from the site. The area north
of Krager Road drains via an existing culvert onto the
site. The plan employed diversion ditches to intercept the flow
of surface water at the westerly boundary and direct it north to
an open, permanent waterway. The intercepted drainage would
create a pond which would serve as part of the wildlife park
projected as the end use of the site. The plan proposed
additional diversion ditches to collect and direct the natural
drainage to closed drains in the swale area where open streams
would be covered over.
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The Soil Conservation Service and the New York Department of
Transportation conducted geological and ground water location
analyses. The initial study consisted of open pit analyses of
15 pits dug to depths of 12 (3.6) to 13 (4) feet (meters). In
the second study cased 3-inch (7.6 cm) holes were bored to rock
or to a depth of about 50 feet (15 meters). Twelve holes were
completed.
The nearest well to the landfill is approximately 2500 feet
(760 meters) the closest buildings are 400 feet (122 meters) and
upstream from the ground waterflow. The surrounding lands
are farm lands or undeveloped forest and brush areas.
Besides accounting for surface drainage and the restrictions
imposed by ground water and geological conditions, the plan had to
accommodate man-made obstructions. A gas transmission main ran
east and west through Areas 3 and 4. Rather than incur the
expense of moving the gas main, designs parallel the main with
part of the access road; this solution caused minimum difficulty
to the landfill operation and left the gas main undisturbed.
Overhead power lines also existed on the site. Though the
lines themselves would not hinder the normal operation of the
site, it was advantageous to change the position of some power
poles as part of the initial preparation of the site.
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A major purpose of the geological and groundwater studies
is the identification of areas where 5 feet (1.5 meters) or more of
cover material exist. In such areas, ground water or rock
should not be encountered for at least another five feet (1.5
meters) of excavation. That depth, based on the soils analyses,
would minimize the probability of leachate reaching and contacting
ground water or rock.
Ground water at a depth of 8 feet (2.4 meters) underlaid much
of Area 1. Deep drainage plans were developed to permit access
to more than two or three feet of cover material in Area 1.
Because of the dust produced by the predominant soils at
Five Points, plans suggested only minimal stockpiling of cover
material.
Utilities available to the site include electricity,
natural gas and telephone. Sewers or water are unavailable
and will have to be provided on site.
Entrance to the site is from Toad Hollow Road. Upon entering
vehicles are weighed and records maintained. A Toledo 8130
Digital Readout Print-Way 500 scale is used with an electronic
recorder. The weighing operation is overseen from the office of
the maintenance building. The building is a five-bay facility of
steel construction and is located just off Toad Hollow Road.
Attached to the building, with separate entrance from Toad Hollow
Road, is the individual disposal area. It consists of an open
top container and a self-unloading forage box into which
individuals dispose of their refuse. The open top, when full,
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is hauled to the working face of the landfill and emptied by a
private contractor with a tilt frame vehicle. The forage box
can be hauled to the working face by the tractor and unloaded.
Equipment in use on the site includes a Caterpillar D-7
with winch and landfill blade. The D-7 was used to spread, and
compact refuse and cover material. In 1975 the Hefuse Department
purchased a 12 cubic yard (9.2 cu. meter) capacity towed scraper
to make the job of hauling and spreading cover material more
efficient. The scraper is towed by the D-7. When not towing
the scraper, the D-7 still compacts refuse. The Caterpillar 941
crawler loader with ripper provides a backup machine for the D-7
as well as providing the primary function of ripping difficult
cover material and at times excavating and loading cover material
into the six-wheel dump truck. The site also has a Ford farm
tractor with a hydraulic front bucket which is used for snow
removal and towing the forage box.
Farwell Sanitary Landfill. The County Sanitary Landfill
No. 2 is located on Farwell Road in the Town of Ischua. The
property is located to the west of New York State Route #16 about
10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Olean and the property includes
approximately 227 acres (92 hectares), 20 (8) of which were designed
for initial landfilling.
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FIGURE
Property
To -Sou/h
FARWELL SAV/TARY LAriDF/LL
(COUNTY L^rfD^/LL /yc a)
OF
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The Farwell site is expected to serve 13 towns, 5 villages,
and 1 city with a combined population (according to the 1970
census) of 47,263.
The site provided some obstructions toward development which
were addressed to in the design of the site. The single access
road to the bulk of the property crosses both Ischua Creek by
a one-way bridge and tracks of the Penn-Central Railroad.
Ischua Creek is a water supply source and for part of its
length, a fishing stream. The creek flews southerly and is
situated to the east of the Penn-Central Railroad. Operational
design of the facility will provide that the fill area will
come no closer than 350 feet (106.7 meters) to the Creek.
Existing surface water drainage for the site travels from
.vt33t to east across the property and via road ditches along
•?a.rwell Road. This pattern drains into ditches along the westerly
of the Penn Central right-of-way and eventually discharges
Ischua Creek.
Drainage modification was designed to eliminate any direct
'...scharge from the landfill to the Creek. This will be
Accomplished by a series of storm water retention basins. It
tvill also divert surface water entering the site from west around
"J*e fill area employing permanent and temporary drainage structures
co the basins.
Interim plans for use of the Farwell site committed Area 1
> c. .Immediate landfill operation. The 42 acres (17 hectares) of
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Area 2 were designated for stockpiling cover material and storing
sand and gravel. Temporary storage of recycled junked automobiles
and appliances was also planned for Area 2.
Most of the remainder of the property is forest or brush area
providing natural wildlife cover and protection; it will not be
altered for at least 20 years.
The preliminary plans proposed a large excavation along the
eastern edge of Area 1. This three-acre area was expected
to accommodate two or three lifts initially; it could receive two
additional lifts before the area was exhausted. The cover material,
stored in Area 2, was to be obtained from the higher ground to the
west in order to continually prepare new areas with a minimum
of special excavation and stockpiling.
The preliminary plan estimates that the three acre, (1.2
hectare), three-lift operation will consume a year and a half.
Adding two additional lifts will take another year. This plan,
creating five lifts over 20 acres (8 hectares), will yield a site
life for Area 1 of 17 or 18 years.
Although most of the refuse entering the Farwell Landfill
will be collected and hauled by private or public agencies,
private individuals will also bring refuse directly to the site.
For the convenience of individuals a separate disposal area will
be constructed near the entrance to the site. Individuals dispose
of their refuse into an open top container or a forage box without
having to go near the working face of the landfill.
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Plantings to provide screening along both sides of Farwell
Road were planned, as well as peripheral plantings along the
northern and western boundaries. Original plans did not include
plantings along the eastern boundary until a determination could
be made to assure adequate sight distance of oncoming trains
exists along the Penn-Central Railway track. Entrance and exit
roads to and from the public depository were to be paved, as
was Farwell Road, at least to a point immediately beyond where
regular heavy trucking would occur.
Equipment in use on the site is identical to that purchased
for the Five Points site. This duplication procedure minimizes
parts inventory costs and permits familiarity with the machine
on the part of the operator as well as the mechanic.
Construction on the site included a 45 foot (14 meter) by
50 foot (15 meter) maintenance building constructed in 1976 to
house all equipment kept at the site. The facility includes
office space and a shower-locker room as well as a shop work
area. Independent heating zones economize on fuel consumption
by allowing temperatures in the office and locker-shower to be
maintained at 68°F (20°C) while the shop area can be kept at
a lower temperature.
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Utilities available to the site include electric power and
telephone. Neither sewers nor water is available and would be
supplied at the site. An on-site well and septic system were
installed in 1976 during construction of the building.
Additionally inground fuel tanks service the equipment and
provide fuel to operate the furnace.
A convenience area is maintained for individual users and is
constructed of timber with a grade separation and sheltered area
for individuals unloading. Serving the area is an open top
container and a self-unloading forage box.
The development of preliminary plans and the preparation of
the landfill site to accommodate those plans were based on studies
of surface water conditions, geological and ground water conditions,
obstructions, and cover material.
The Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and the Anderson Drilling
Company made geological, ground water, and rock studies on
the Farwell site. The SCS study consisted of a series of 16 open
cuts of 8 (2.44) to 13 (3.96) feet (meters) in depth. The
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Anderson study consisted of 10 borings and samplings to depths
of about 50 feet (15 meters). Rock, in the form of soft shale
with thin clay seams, was encountered in only one hole at a depth
of 33.5 feet (10.2 meters) below grade. Water was encountered
in four holes, each of which was established as a preliminary
water observation well. Only the fourth hole, taken in
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Area 2 near Ischua Creek, seemed a true indicator of the ground
water level. No excavation, however, was proposed to be closer
than 10 feet (3 meters) above the highest recorded water level
in any of the observation wells.
The lands of the site and of surrounding property consist
of farm land, open fields, brush, and undeveloped forest area.
The site is hidden from the public view except for the house and
barns on land the Farwell family retained. Screening was proposed
and alterations made to the existing landscape with the caution
that good visibility must be ensured for travel in and out of the
site.
The Farwell family buildings are at least 200 feet (60 meters)
from the nearest proposed refuse deposit. Other buildings in the
area stand on Farwell Road about 500 feet (150 meters) west of
the landfill. Others are located 1500 feet (457 meters)
distant on Route 16.
By January 1974 a water monitoring program in accordance with
recommendations of the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation was commenced in order to obtain background data
prior to site operation to determine initial conditions as a
comparison for future tests.
Natural and man-made obstructions posed the greatest
challenges to the landfill design. Because Ischua Creek is a
water supply source and a fishing stream, plans had to ensure
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that the water quality would be protected. The primary
design concern, however, was the single lane bridge which
severely hindered access to the landfill site.
Farwell Road, passing completely through the site, served
as a boundary between Areas 1 and 2. Because the road would
continue to serve property beyond the landfill, it had to remain
open to the public, creating a security and control problem.
Furthermore, the road grades along Farwell Road within the
bounds of the landfill site were excessive. Plans recommended
that the grades be flattened so the resulting grade will
approximate 7 percent.
The geological tests conducted on Areas 1 and 2 indicated
that the depth of cover material was generally limited by the
practical limits of excavation and the capacity to stockpile
the material. Excavation depths, therefore, were restricted
to a maximum of 25 feet, (7.6 meters). Plans recommended that
Area 2 be employed as a stockpiling area. Estimates project
sufficient cover material to permit five lifts over an area
exceeding 20 acres (8 hectares).
The future use of the site would most likely return the land
to farming or upon completion of plantings, return the site to
nature and preserve the site to permit regular use by the public
as a recreational area.
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Transfer Site. A well-integrated system of sanitary
landfills and transfer stations proved to be an economical
alternative to a system consisting of numerous landfills.
Refuse mechanically compacted at a transfer station will yield
a greater in-place density than non-compacted refuse when
compacted during final disposal at the landfill and thus
extend the life of the landfill site. Second, the judicious
placement of transfer stations reduces time and expense to
haul waste to the landfill. The transfer station, then, saves
money by reducing haul time, fuel, maintenance and personnel
expenses, and equipment expenses at the landfill. And third,
the transfer station is adaptable to future recycling efforts
by which paper, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, glass or fuel
may be reclaimed from discarded materials.
In Cattaraugus County, the transfer station provides the
most economical means of providing convenient disposal points
for both urban and rural areas of so large a county.
The intent of the transfer station is to reduce the haul
distance for users of the facility. The design of the facility
mus& reflect the traffic it will receive; grades should be
gradual and slight; ample maneuvering space must be provided
for vehicles; transfer vehicles should have a separate switching
area so they do not interfere with in-coming traffic.
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Transfer stations typically provide two level operation—
an operating floor (which includes the refuse depository,
Control room, and offices) on the upper level, the compactor
and maintenance area below.
Convenience stations are a scaled down transfer station
providing service to individuals at less cost to the County
than a full sized transfer station. The principle of transfer
remains the same irregardless of which type of station is used.
In November, 1974 the Refuse Department instituted temporary
"Convenience Stations" in the Towns of Allegany and Portville
and in 1975 extended this service to the Towns of Dayton and
Machias, and the City of Salamanca. The Convenience Stations
are provided as a convenience to individuals who, hauling
their own waste, would otherwise have a long drive to one of
the two landfills. These stations are not intended to serve
large generators of solid waste, or collectors. The original
intent was not to handle large bulky objects, such as freezers
and couches, but the inclusion of an open top container at
each facility provides the added service.
The original convenience stations consist of open top
steel boxes which are pulled onto trucks and taken to the
landfill when full. Because the waste is loose and non-compacted
very little actual tonnage is handled in each trip to the
landfill. The cost per ton during the operation with the open
top containers was prohibitive.
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The Machias station was used to illustrate a closed steel
box with a self-contained hydraulic compactor. The demonstration
proved successful as the payload was doubled and the number
of trips to the landfill thus decreased by one half. The
concept of compaction at the Machias station is being used as
the model for five of the seven convenience stations to be located
around Cattaraugus County.
A contract, executed in 1973, as part of the original
transfer program, will provide for the purchase of equipment
tor the other two convenience stations, along with four ejection
containers, and eight open top containers. These stations will
use the independent stationary compactor loading the ejection
container.
In order to provide an equitable distribution of services to
the residents of the County, the Machias station was retained,
..-.nd new facilities are under construction at Dayton, Randolph
(Town of Conewango), Onoville, Allegany, Portville and Salamanca.
Ihe Onoville and Randolph facilities will be completely new, while
t.he remaining four are replacements for the temporary open top
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s-cations which proved too expensive to operate. The seven
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convenience stations, plus the two existing landfills bring most
of the County's population centers to within a five mile drive
of the closest disposal facility.
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Figure 6. Machias self-contained hydraulic compactor convenience
station.
Figure 7. Machias convenience station.
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The convenience stations are modeled after the facility
which operated at Machias, using self-packing containers. Two
stations will each use one of the two stationary compactors
supplied under an earlier contract. The refuse from Randolph
(Town of Conewango) and Dayton facilities, plus Onoville, will
be taken to the Five Points Sanitary Landfill for disposal.
The present method of haul is to have containers transported
to the landfill by private haulers, who would be awarded a
County hauling contract by means of competitive bidding procedures,
Should this method prove too costly the County would have the
option of purchasing and operating its own vehicle to haul waste
to the landfills.
The facilities operate in each location according to the
demand for service. In some of the lighter waste generation
areas, Saturday plus one weekday is sufficient. In other more
populous areas, five or six day service is necessary. Again the
County has the latitude to revise the hours to meet the
requirements of the facility.
Completion of the system is anticipated for mid 1976.
Most of the earth work for the sites will be done by the County
or Town Highway Departments or the Refuse Department thereby
making it unnecessary to bid the work out to contractors. This
would be a factor in saving money in the overall program as well
as bringing about a more timely opening. It is expected that
County personnel can be used to perform $70,000 work of the
projected cost.
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Figure 8. Retaining wall and container pad under construction
at the Onoville convenience station.
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Figure 9. Private vehicle depository under construction at the
Farwell Sanitary Landfill.
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Administration and Financing. The program of solid waste
disposal in Cattaraugus County is a function of County
government with individual departmental status. The head of
the department is its administrator, William W. White. The
administrative staff includes one aid and two secretaries.
Personnel at each landfill include a landfill supervisor, four
equipment operators and a laborer. The workforce is supplemented
with part-time labor to operate the transfer stations and periodic
temporary labor to perform work associated with special projects.
Financing of the capital expense includes grants from the
Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation as well as a grant and loan from
the Farmers Home Administration. These were provided to
supplement the capital bonding approved by the Cattaraugus County
Legislature.
A method of financing of the annual operational expenses
and debt service has been a matter of much study, review and
discussion. Methods for financing the program reviewed to date
include:
1. Revenues would come from the County ad valorem tax
which is based on the assessed value of property.
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Proponents claim that this method is the least
expensive and easiest to collect and administer
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and would provide revenues for solid waste by the
sane manner all other county services receive revenue.
Non-supporters claim that this method of obtaining
revenues is unfair since the amount of refuse
generated has little to do with property values
and tax-exempt institutions would not be charged.
2. The County would enter into a Contract with each
municipality with contract payment amounts based
on population, weight of refuse from the municipality or
some other equitable means. The individual
municipality would then in turn have to raise the
necessary revenues which most easily would come from
taxation based on assessed value of property.
3. Establish rate schedule based on service units to
treat domestic, commercial, industrial, private
haulers, institutions and state and federal
agencies equally. Each service unit would be
billed annually. The major drawback of such a
system would be the prohibitively high cost to
bill and collect revenues for the system. The
legality of this method was questioned and it is
no longer considered an option.
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4. Similar to #3 would be a method of whereby "generating
units" would be counted in each municipality annually
and the refuse budget would be apportioned among the
municipalities based on the percentage of solid waste
generating units in each municipality. The municipality's
share would then be payable to the County vtith the
municipality using whatever means it chose to raise
the revenue. Such a method would require the County
to perform a count of generating units annually and
would distribute the cost to the municipality by a
method based on refuse generation rather than ad valorem
tax.
5. Pay-at-the-Gate where each user is charged for
garbage disposed of at the refuse facility. This method
provides the most equitable manner to obtain revenues
as it is based directly on garbage disposed. It is
costly to operate since an individual responsible for
collecting money and accounting is necessary at each
facility. It is also a speculative method based on
the anticipated disposal of refuse to determine a unit
charge. Should the number of units fall short of that
anticipated for the year a deficit would occur.
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The County Legislature has concurred to obtain revenue
from the County ad valorem tax on a temporary basis. No
decision has yet been reached on a permanent method to obtain
revenues to offset the cost of the refuse system.
The capital cost for development of the program totals
$1,143,910.85 and is detailed in the appendices along with the 1975
annual operating expense for the Refuse Department which totaled
$204,373.25. The capital project costs have been paid for directly
and are not presently reflected in the annual operating expense.
The estimated tonnage received at the two sanitary landfills was
32,820 tons in 1975, yielding an operating cost, excluding capital,
of $6.23 per ton. The operating cost, excluding capital, for the
transfer stations and sanitary landfills amounted to $2.50 per
person based on the 1970 census population of 81,666 for the
County. In 1975, transfer containers were rented from the contract
hauler. However, the County plans to purchase containers and
anticipates from past experience an operating cost, excluding
capital, of about $10 per ton for transferring compacted wastes.
The ongoing program to complete the convenience stations
is estimated to cost $450,000. A detailed cost estimate of this
program is also included in the appendices. The work of this
project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 1976.
Closing Open Dumps. The Refuse Department is responsible
for the enforcement of Local Law 4, adopted by Cattaraugus
County, July 11, 1973 which in part states that it is illegal
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to dump in any area within the County which is not established
or licensed by the County Legislature. At the time of establish-
ment of the Refuse Department it was purported that over 330
violators of the Law ranging in size from backyard burn barrels
to small roadside dumping areas to open dumps serving entire towns
existed in the County. Many violators using the backyard burn barrel
upon being provided with accessible and acceptable means of legal
disposal and being made aware through public relations efforts
discontinued the practice. The environmental movement was much
publicized during this time and encouraged the protection of the
environment through properly disposing of solid waste. This took
care of many of the 330 violators. The dumping areas, all illegal
and the majority of them located right along the road, contain
everything from individual household waste to abandoned automobiles.
The Refuse Department has established a program whereby it
takes upon itself the responsibility of closing the remaining open
dumps. Unfortunately, the Department does not have the time or
manpower to close all the open dumps over a short period. In the
.summer of 1974 the dump closing program commenced in the Towns of
Mansfield and Ellicottville and has spread from there to other
towns closing more than 23 of 41 major dumping locations. The
Department has also assisted municipalities in closing municipally
operated facilities. The closing, unfortunately, is not always the
final answer as in come cases new garbage reappears as soon as the
next day.
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The initial step in the program is to survey each town,
determining the location of all the roadside dumps within its
boundaries. The cooperation of the individual town officials
must be enlisted to assist in determining ownership and receive
assistance to perform the actual covering and cleanup operation.
The next step requires that the owner of the property on
which the dump is located be contacted and his permission secured
to clean up the dump. This is more often than not a difficult
task to first trace and second secure the permission of the
skeptical owner. In some instances it is the owner himself
who has been dumping in that location for years. Still most
landowners are extremely cooperative and appreciative of the
free service.
Once access to the site is permitted signs are posted
restricting dumping and providing a map giving directions to
the nearest disposal facility. The next problem to attack is the
extermination of any rat population living off the dump. This
is a very necessary step which, if not carried out properly,
could lead to the migration of the rat population to areas
inhabited by humans. The baiting program uses an anticoagulant
causing rats who have injested the bait to bleed internally and
die after a few feedings. Domestic animals and humans will
normally cough up the anti-coagulant should they get into any,
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but the Refuse Department takes care to warn neighboring
homeowners of the baiting schedule. The baiting will continue
on a regular schedule with periodic visits made to replenish
the bait supply for a period of about two weeks. The safest
sign of destruction of the rat population is when no more
of the bait is being eaten. At that point in Lime the machinery
can move in and clean the area up. This can happen in a number
of ways, one of which would be removal of all garbage to the
sanitary landfill. The other way would be to compact and
cover the refuse providing a cleaned, finished and seeded
area. This last step is carried out by the Refuse Department
with valuable assistance provided by the individual Town.
Water Monitoring Program. A Water Monitoring Program
has been established at the two sanitary landfill sites in
conjunction with the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation. The program includes the establishment and
periodic testing of monitoring wells constructed on the site
and the sampling and testing of existing local wells and
natural streams. Background tests were made prior to the
opening of the site in order to determine initial conditions
as a basis of comparison for future tests.
The purpose of the testing is to determine any change in
water quality attributable to the sanitary landfill operation.
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The testing shall comply as a minimum with the following
testing and frequency schedules:
Water Sampling and Analysis Requirements
Parameter Frequency
Group I - pH, Alkalinity, Total Solids, Initially,
Turbidity, Color, Conductivity, Quarterly, and
Hardness-total, Iron-total, as additionally
Chlorides required.
Group II- Ammonia, Nitrate, Nitrite, Initially,
BOD, COD, Kjeldahl-total, annually and
Phosphate-total, Sulfates, as additionally
Aluminum, Arsenic, Beryllium, required.
Chromium, Copper, Lead, Lithium,
Mercury, Potassium, Sodium,
Titanium, Detergent, Phenol,
Calcium, Silver, Total Coliform
Liquid Waste Disposal. The Cattaraugus County Refuse
Department provides an economical method for disposal of liquid
waste by industry and individuals. The nearest disposal facility
for liquid waste is 100 miles (161 km.) from Cattaraugus County
and to transport on an individual basis would be prohibitively
expensive. The Refuse Department provides an area at the
landfill where the industry may store closed containers of
industrial waste. Receipt of the containers is documented on
arrival and when sufficient containers have accumulated they
are transported by truck to the disposal facility. The total
cost of transportation and disposal is then divided among the
participants on a percent of total volume basis. The cooperative
venture is economical for the user and provides (the County with a
control to insure that liquid wastes are not being disposed of
improperly in Cattaraugus County.
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Public Relations. The Refuse Department uses every opportunity
to gain favorable publicity for the entire program by providing
courteous treatment to all those who come to use, visit, or view
a facility. By doing this they will not only gain favorable
comments regarding this program but will additionally provide the
visitor with a more favorable outlook on solid waste disposal
in general.
Since the inception of the Refuse Agency, one aim has been
to keep the public thoroughly informed at all times. Through
the cooperation of the news media throughout Cattaraugus County
that goal was attained.
The Refuse Agency initiated a newspaper series on solid
waste disposal made available to area newspapers. The series
was published and received a wide circulation. Its purpose
was to alert the public first to the problems associated with
solid waste disposal in Cattaraugus County as they existed when
the study period began by detailing the current condition of
each disposal facility in the County. Secondly, explaining the
laws of the State of New York as they govern the operations of
solid waste disposal, to show the public the standards that must
be attained on the local level. The third article outlined
how the Refuse Agency got its start and provided a detailed
chronology of events which took place and studies that were
made. The fourth installment of the series detailed the transfer
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facilities in the proposed system in an attempt to gain
favorable public reaction and the fifth and final article dealt
in detail with the proposed Mansfield Landfill Site. The
series as a whole proved useful in presenting a picture of the
solid waste disposal program under study for the county to the
public.
The Refuse Department has continued the practice
initiated by its predecessor, the Refuse Agency, and continues
to make positive use of the media in order to explain its programs
and announce any changes in its operational procedures to the
public at large. Notable articles have been written concerning
the closing of roadside dumping areas and the search for
transfer station sites.
Public Notices are often necessary to notify the public
as to changes in operating hours or locations, and observance or
non-observance of holidays.
Informational meetings are held to discuss solid waste
problems, solutions and ideas in areas where action is anticipated.
Prior to moving ahead with locating a facility, such as a
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convenience station, in an area, it is advisable to meet with
the local citizens so that the facility can be explained and any
misconceptions resolved. In most instances the Refuse Department
trys to provide information to the media prior to a meeting to
provide the public with preliminary information to what is to
be presented.
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The Refuse Department sponsored a booth at the County Fair
where free maps of the County, including an explanation of the
County Solid Waste Program on the reverse, were distributed.
In addition to the map representatives were available to
answer questions from citizens.
In May, 1975 the Refuse Department held a three day seminar
in Clean which was attended by solid waste officials from both
New York and Pennsylvania. Approximately 50 individuals attended
the seminar. Presentations at the seminar included various
topics concerning solid waste management presented in lecture
and panel discussion formats.
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FIGURE 10
SANITARY LANDFILL WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
TQ.tiAITA&iUGUS COUNTY
.... • V •';.' ';?:> ' ' ;".^! "••/, -3'.i .' ' v" i
-,«? Refuse Department 13 happy to have you
ero f^r our Sanitary iandfli! Workshop, This has
een developed in CQpperaton v/iih thr aid ot the
.nmental Protection Agancy thrto^lT'&f-ant ^^
..-.arc available to Catta/augus County.
J* V/e hope you will enjoy your stay/ a'nd firwj these
/ tmee days to b£ ^rtfigfite/wn$/and baueficial so you
ay tak& some helpful information "homewith you.
" jBHF*LiflSEflH'''!*"''«' o- -*'w
We ilso wish to thank aji those peopte who have
articipated in the devatopmei-rt-of the County Refuse
Syatem; especiaily the Refuse.,.Committee «f .the
County Legislature: Howard Preston, chairman;
Sebastian Rogoztnski, 0©ratd Taylor, Maynard
Mftfnme, arid David Welles.
WQRKSHQP. SCHEDULE
MONDAY. MAY 19
9:00-11:45 Registration and^informargdtrierina In'
'the Ratrtskeiler including displays
by /equipment coropantes.*,i
, :
- |J30
:h (Grreat Hail of Castle) Smorgas-
frd -^itb wefcome speech by,
,;o|d O, Dewey, County tegisla-
re Chairman; Special .guests Dolf
«r,_ county planner .and
Chester "Halgas, eiavirortmaaial
for Health Pept.
ipt. of Environinenta} Con-
servgtion Oavjd. JMafrici - Financial
Assistance Program; Al Raymond—
gulatioos afi«i Polices; Dick Gtis-
;on - Landscape apd Uttimate
MAY 20
Bus Touf (pick up in front o
Farwell ^an'rtary Landfill,
sfer Station, and 5 Points San-
r Landfill with lunch at Elilcott-
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PanelOiscussion (Rathskeller) chaif«o
^1ay Howard F. Qh'risten^en,
V County Pept of Public Works (Solid
Waste
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Bibliography
Cattaraugus County Refuse Agency. An Interim Report to the
Cattaraugus County Legislature on County Wide Refuse Collection
and/or Disposal. June 9, 1971. 31 p.
rlazen and Sawyer, Engineers. Report on Refuse Collection and
Disposal, Cattaraugus County, New York. Prepared for Cattaraugus
County Planning Board and Cattaraugus County Refuse Agency,
December, 1969.
V-; idell Associates. Farwell Sanitary Landfill Operation Plan.
prepared for the Cattaraugus County Refuse Department,
January, 1974. (Project No. 1536-1-40-74.)
Wendell Associates. Operational Report: Cattaraugus County,
"\'ew York Refuse Disposal Program. Prepared for the Cattaraugus
County Refuse Agency, April, 1973. (Project No. 1536-1-40-73.)
Whits, W.W., Interim Report for Model Sanitary Landfill, Cattaraugus
County, New York [S-801774] . Environmental Protection Agency,
May, 1974. 9 p.
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Heated two bay garage with an extension for repair shop,
office, toilet and shower facility.
Rectangular 37' x 52' with 8' x 40' extension - one story
building. Total floor area ?244 sa. ft.
MAIN BUILDING; Exterior insulated metal oanel wall with
wood post, beam framing; wood trusses and purlins with
metal roof; styrofoam board ceilinq over entire area;
concrete floor on grade; two fiberglass manually operated
overhead doors with one passenger door; concrete apron.
EXTENSION; Exterior wood stud wall with metal panel;
interior wood stud wall with gynsum board; wood rafters
and purlins with metal roof; gypsum board ceiling, concrete
floor on grade; three passenger doors.
Oil fired hot air furnace; flourescent light fixtures.
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AFPENUIA
I.
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE DEPARTMENT
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES REPORT SUMMARY
FIVE POINTS LANDFILL
A. Equipment $177,636.29
B. Tools & Supplies 2,450.53
C. Building Contracts 221,283.77
D. Site Work Construction 86,598.11
$487,968.70
II. FARWELL LANDFILL
A. Land Costs $120,024.06
B. Equipment 158,196.86
C. Site Work & Construction 183,023.82
D. Tools 95.36
$461,340.10
III. ENGINEERING $119,420.40
IV. TRAVEL $ 4,254.37
V. SUPPLIES $ 7,275.21
VI. CONVENIENCE STATIONS $ 86,517.70
VII. CONVENIENCE STATION SITE DEVELOPEMNT- $ 31,180.55
VIII. MISCELLANEOUS $ 2,634.82
TOTAL CAPITAL EXPENDITURES $1,200,591.85
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CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE DEPARTMENT
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES REPORT
T. Five Points Landfill
A. Equipment
1. D7F Bulldozer $ 66,941.12
2. 941B Track Loader 30,957.00
3. 1969 4-wheel drive pickup 1,600.00
4. International Dump Truck 7,202.68
5. Forage Box 3,709.00
6. Hydraulic Pan 39,446.00
7. Ford Tractor 7,351.49
8. Welder 1,007.20
9. Toledo Scales 14,298.00
10. Air Compressor 933.00
11. Pump 819.50
12. Power Washer 375.00
13. Office Furniture 625.92
14. 1,000 gallon fuel tank 495.85
15. Miscellaneous 1,874.33
$177,636.29
B. Tools and Supplies $ 2,450.53
C. Building Contracts
1. Bradley Builders
General Construction $115,244.75
2. Dan White Electric
Electric 10,363.02
3. Terra Marine Dredging
a. Site Work 45,701.00
b. Building & Plumbing 34,022.00
c. Heating & Ventilating 15,953.00
$221,283.77
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D. Site Work Construction
1. Site Development
2. Gas Line Connection
3. Road Construction
4. Equipment Rental
5. Gas Venting System
6. Groundwater Monitoring
System
7. Fencing
8. Landscaping
9. Traffic Control Devices
10. Miscellaneous
$ 13,751.61
2,445.00
20,117.54
30,758.58
864.22
1,110.73
432.15
723.79
142.69
12,269.80
$ 86,598.11
Five Points Landfill Capital Expenditure Total
$487,968.70
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II. Farwell Landfill
A. Land Costs
1. Option
2. Test Pits
3. Test Borings
4. Property Survey
5. Land Purchase
! 300.00
246.50
2,839.50
1,700.00
114,938.06
$120,024.06
B. Equipment
1. D7F Bulldozer (less Winch)
2. 3/4 ton 4-wheel drive pickup
3. 941 B track loader
4. Ford Tractor
a. accessories kit
5. Truck Body
6. Dump Truck w/plow
7. 1,000 gallon tank and
installation
8. Forage Box
9. Hydraulic Pan
10. Power Washer
S 60,383.00
1,490.00
37,465.00
6,584.79
359.64
1,261.43
7,300.00
463
3,069
39,446
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375.00
$158,196.86
C. Site Work and Construction
1. Individual Convenience Area
2. Site Investigation &
Survey Layout
3. Road Construction
4. Equipment Rental
5. Fencing
6. Signs
7_ Structures
8. 1,000 gallon tank
w/installation
9. Groundwater Monitoring
System
10. Maintenance Building
11. Miscellaneous
D. Tools
$ 3,233.47
1,053.77
7,366.57
108,058.45
1,165.19
216.05
2,136.70
463.00
3,525.75
54,678.00
1,126.87
$183,023.82
95.36
Farwell Landfill Capital Expenditure Total
$461,340.10
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III. Engineering
A. Wendel Associates
1. Data Collection and
Assimilation $ 3,000.00
2. Long Range Development Plan 19.930.00
3. Final Design 14,867.00
4. Construction Observation 24,590.39
5. Additional Services 10,636.00
$ 73,023.39
B. Barton Brown Clyde & Loguidice, P.C.
1. Final Report $ 9,000.00
2. Farwell Building Design and
Transfer System Report 18,055.50
3. Transfer System Design 19,341.51
$ 46,397.01
Engineering Capital Expenditure Total $119,420.40
IV. Travel Expenses
A. Administration $ 442.12
B. Public Relations Coordinator 3,553.42
C. Dump Closings 258. 83
Travel Expenses Capital Expenditure Total $ 4,254.37
V. Supplies
A. Administrative $ 3,268.22
B. Public Relations
1. Telephone $ 201.43
2. Film & Processing 179.91
3. County Fair Booth - 1973 119.85
4. County Fair Booth - 1974 87.99
5. Dump Closings 3,417.81
$ 4,006.99
Supplies Capital Expenditure Total $ 7,275.21
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Convenience Stations
A. Site Investigation
B. Equipment Purchase
1. 2-tractors
2. 5-hydraulic cylinders
3. 8-open containers
4. 4-closed ejection containers
Convenience Stations Capital
Expenditure Total
Convenience Station Site Development
A. Allegany Site
1. Step Platforms
2. Gravel
B. Conewargo Site
1. Cover test pits
2. Survey & Elevations
3. Land purchase
C. Dayton Site
1. Test Holes
2. Land Purchase
3. Equipment Rental
D. Machias Site
1. Preliminary Investigation
2. Land Purchase
3. Structure
4. Site Work
5. Signs
$ 13,169.58
13,776.25
31,200.00
24,400.00
146.63
9.46
42.00
375.00
4,999.00
47.87
9,600.00
1,579.50
142.86
'< ,500.00
1,588.02
6,869.30
76.00
$ 1,971.87
$ 82,545.83
$ 84,517.70
156.09
$ 5,416.00
$ 11,227.37
$ 13,176.18
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Portville Site
1. Labor and Equipment Rental
2. Step Platform
3. Gravel
563.28
146.63
495.00
$ 1,204.91
Convenience Station Site Development
Capital Expenditure Total
VIII. Miscellaneous
A. Treasurer Time Charges
B. Professional Services, Bonding
C. Security Col.
D. Brochures
E. Workshop Seminar
Miscellaneous Capital Expenditure Total
$ 31,180.55
$ 222.69
1,000.00
618.60
781.20
12.33
$ 2,634.82
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APPENDIX G
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE DEPARTMENT
1975 ANNUAL REPORT
OPERATING EXPENSES
SUMMARY
I. Administration $ 32,326.51
II. Five Points Landfill 52,009.17
III. Farwell Landfill 58,977.01
IV. Convenience System 61,060.56
TOTAL 1975 OPERATING EXPENDITURES $204,373.25
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CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE DEPARTMENT
1975 ANNUAL REPORT
OPERATING EXPENSES
1. ADMINISTRATION
A. PERSONNEL (Administrator, Coordinator,
Accounting & Secretarial)
$27,141.00
B. MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT
1. Administrator's Vehicle
2,000.00
C. OFFICE EXPENSES
1. Postage
2. Supplies
3. Service Agreements
4. Telephone
110.03
432.82
121.51
1,310.22
1,974.58
D. TRAVEL
1. Individual
2. Summer Housing Survey
911.45
299.48
1,210.93
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES --- ___ $32,326.51
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1975 ANNUAL REPORT
OPERATING EXPENSES
II. 5 POINTS LANDFILL
A. PERSONNEL (Supervisor, 4 Equipment
Operators/ Laborer)
B. GAS & OIL
$38,284.80
5,061.77
C. MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT
1. Dozer & Loader
2. Equipment, other
$2,597.87
3,854.34
6,452.21
D. UTILITIES
1. Telephone
2. Heat
3. Electric
672.82
463.24
238.67
1,374.73
E. TRAVEL
689.09
F. CONTINGENCIES
146.57
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES - - $52,009.17
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CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE DEPARTMENT
1975 ANNUAL REPORT
OPERATING EXPENSES
III. FARWELL LANDFILL
A. PERSONNEL (Supervisor, 4 Equipment
Operators, Laborer)
$40,695.60
B. TOOLS & EQUIPMENT
1,276.28
C. GAS & OIL
5,139.77
D. MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT
1. Dozer and Loader
2. Equipment, Other
3. Equipment Rental
$7,442.71
2,143.41
1,730.00
83
11,316.12
E. TRAVEL
49.48
F. UTILITIES
1. Telephone
2. Heat
379.76
120.00
499.76
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES
$58,977.01
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IV.
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE DEPARTMENT
1975 ANNUAL REPORT
OPERATING EXPENSES
CONVENIENCE SYSTEM
Machias
1. Personnel
2. Electric
3. Telephone
4. Container Rentals
5. Hauling
6. Mobilization
B. Salamanca
1. Container Rental
2. Hauling
C. Dayton
1. Personnel
2. Container Rental
3. Hauling
Allegany
1. Personnel
2. Container Rental
3. Hauling
E. Portville
1. Personnel
2. Container Rental
3. Hauling
$ 2,364.54
291.49
175.93
7,200.00
3,bJ3.00
300.00
2,280.00
16,980.00
777.78
1,157.50
2,515.00
1,408.68
1,367.50
8,655.00
1,394.64
1,567.50
8,790.00
$14,166.96
19,260.00
4,450.28
11,431.18
11,752.14
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES __-_ $61,060.56
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Cattaraugus County Refuse Department
1975 Convenience Stations
Location Container Total Loads Total Cost per
Type Cost tons ton
Machias Compaction $14,166.96 77 674 $21.02
Salamanca Loose 19,260.00 351 1,141 16.88
Portville Loose 11,752.14 194 630 18.63
Allegany Loose 11,431.18 179 582 19.64
Dayton Loose 4,450.28 48 156 28.52
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CATTARAUGUS COUNTY CONVENIENCE SYSTEM
CAPITAL COST ESTIMATE
EQUIPMENT
12 Self Packing Ejection Containers
@ $12,000 $144,000
8 Power Units @ $2,500 20,UOO
$164,000
FACILITIES
6 Regular Retaining Wall @ $5,000 = $ 30,000
1 2-Slot Retaining Wall @ $3,500 = 3,500
7 Sheds @ $2,000 = 14,000
5 Roof Structures @ $2,0.0 = 10,000
Construction Labor by County
Personnel = 75,000
Misc. Fencing (Installed) = 17,000
Earthwork Fill Material $6500/site = 45,500
Concrete by Co. @ $4,000 = 28,000
Electrical @ $1,000 = 7,000
Paving = 16,000
$246,000
ENGINEERING
Design 30,000
Construction Services 10,000
$ 40,000
$450,000
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APPENDIX I
Act No. 233 By Messrs. Jaquish, Preston, Taylor, Rogozinski
& Timme.
LOCAL LAW NUMBER 4-1973
COUNTY OF CATTARAUGUS, NEW YORK
Pursuant to Section 226-b of the County Law
and Article 2 of the Municipal Home Rule Law
A LOCAL LAW ESTABLISHING THE CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REFUSE
SYSTEM AND RELATING TO REGULATING THE DISPOSAL OF REFUSE
IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
BE IT ENACTED by the County Legislature of the County
of Cattaraugus as follows:
SECTION 1. Statement of Purposes.
The purpose of this local law shall be to protect and
promote the health, safety and welfare of the People of Catta-
raugus County by regulating the storage, collection and disposal
of refuse and by creating a County-wide Refuse Disposal System.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge
the emergency powers of the Board of Health of the Department of
Health or the right of the Department of Health to engage in any
of its necessary or proper activities.
SECTION 2. Definitions.
(a) Refuse shall mean useless, unwanted or discarded
materials, solid in nature or semi-solid with insufficient liquid
content to be free flowing, including but not limited to garbage,
rubbish, ashes, bulky waste, dead animals, construction and demo-
lition debris, solid yard trimmings, trees, tree trimmings,
industrial waste and sewage treatment wastes.
(b) Garbage shall mean the putrescible portion of
domestic, industrial or commercial refuse.
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(c) Rubbish shall mean the non-putrescible portion of
domestic and commercial refuse consisting of but not limited to
paper, cardboard, cartons, wood, excelsior, plastics, rags,
cloth, rubber, metal, cans, bottles, ceramics, leaves, grass
and yard trimmings.
(d) Bulky waste shall mean the non-putrescible portion
of refuse including but not limited to stoves, refrigerators,
other large appliances, bath tubs, sinks, furniture, large auto
parts and tires.
(e) Construction and demolition debris shall mean
lumber, roofing, rubble, broken concrete, plaster, conduit pipe,
fire insulation, etc.
(f) Industrial waste shall mean refuse resulting from
industrial processes and manufacturing operations.
(g) Sewage treatment waste shall mean the course
screenings, grit and de-watered sludge from a sewage treatment
plant or septic tank sludge.
(h) Person shall mean any individual, group of indi-
viduals, partnership, firm, corporation, association, state,
county, city, town, village or improvement district.
(i) Refuse disposal area shall mean an area upon which
refuse is deposited.
(j) Collector shall mean any person engaged Ln col-
lecting refuse for hire or as part of usual industrial operation.
(k) The Commissioner shall mean the Cattaraugus County
Commissioner of Health.
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(1) An unsatisfactory refuse disposal area shall mean
a refuse disposal area which does not conform with the rules and
regulations set forth in Part 19 of the New York State Sanitary
Code, the Environmental Conservation rules and regulations, or
the applicable provisions of the Cattaraugus County Refuse Local
Law.
(m) Open burning shall mean any outdoor fire or out-
door smoke producing process, excepting those fires for recrea-
tional purposes such as barbecue fires, high school bonfires, boy
scout campfires, etc., and agricultural and dairying burning of
fields.
(n) County shall mean the County of Cattaraugus.
(o) Committee shall mean the Refuse Committee of
the Legislature.
(p) Department shall mean the Cattaraugus County
Refuse Department.
(g) Legislature shall mean the Cattaraugus County
Legislature.
SECTION 3. Creation of Refuse Disposal System.
There is hereby created and established, pursuant to
Section 226-b of the County Law of 1970, the Cattaraugus County
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Refuse Disposal System. Said system shall be administered and
operated by the Department.
SECTION 4. Refuse Disposal Areas.
The various sanitary landfills and transfer stations
presently owned by the County of Cattaraugus, together with such
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other refuse disposal sites as may, either prior to or following
the enactment of this local law, be established by the Legis-
lature or licensed by the Committee, are hereby designated as the
refuse disposal sites to be used by all persons within the County.
The sites established or licensed pursuant hereto shall be for
the exclusive use of the residents of the County. Any person
who shall transport refuse from outside the County and dump or
discharge the same upon any of the aforementioned sites shall be
subject to the penalties imposed for the violation of this local
law.
SECTION 5. Powers of the Committee.
The Committee shall subject to the approval of the
Legislature:
(a) Formulate, adopt, promulgate, amend and repeal
rules and regulations, in furtherance of this local law, for
controlling the storage, collection and disposal of refuse in
the County of Cattaraugus.
(b) Control the storage, collection and disposal of
refuse in accordance with the provisions of this local law and
of the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
(c) Hold hearings, subpoena and compel the attendance
of witnesses and the production for examination of any book,
paper or item relating to the matter under investigation. For
this purpose the Committee may designate one of its memoers to
hold hearings and issue subpoenas.
(d) Make findings of fact and determinations.
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(e) Make, modify or cancel orders affecting the con-
trol of the storage, collection or the disposal of refuse.
(f) Request the County Attorney to institute civil
actions, proceedings or hearings to compel compliance with the
orders of the Committee and with the provisions of this local
law and the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
(g) Prepare and issue criminal informations or other-
wise institute criminal proceedings against persons found to be
in violation of the provisions of this local law.
(h) Fix fees for licenses and renewals thereof.
(i) Issue licenses and renewals thereof; cancel, sus-
pend and revoke licenses after a hearing.
(j) Take such other action as it may deem necessary,
proper or desirable to enforce the provisions of this local law
or any of the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
(k) Delegate its power to issue licenses to the
Cattaraugus County Refuse Administrator.
SECTION 6. Hearings.
All hearings held pursuant hereto shall be upon not less
than ten days notice to the person involved and shall be held at
a time and location specified by the Committee.
SECTION 7. Dumping of Refuse.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump, throw,
deposit, place or cause to be thrown, dumped, deposited or placed
or allow to be thrown, dumped,deposited or placed at any location
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within Cattaraugus County any refuse or any nauseous or offensive
material, except upon those refuse disposal areas established by
the Legislature or licensed by the Committee.
SECTION 8. Refuse Disposal Area Operation.
(a) No person shall operate a refuse disposal area
after the first day of January 1974 until an application has been
filed with the Committee and a license has been issued by the
Committee in accordance with this local law and with the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder. Before issuing such a
license the Committee may require such plans, reports, specifi-
cations and other data as is necessary for it to determine whether
the site is suitable for such operation and the proposed method
of operation is feasible.
(b) Application for a License to Operate a Refuse
Disposal Area.
Any person who desires to operate or maintain a refuse disposal
area shall make application to the Committee on application forms
provided by the Committee. The fee for each license shall be
$100.00 and shall accompany the application to operate a refuse
disposal area. If the application is denied, such sum shall be
refunded to the applicant.
(c) Operation and Maintenance.
Any person who operates or maintains a refuse disposal area or
permits the use of his land as a refuse disposal area shall cause
the operator to maintain and operate such area in compliance with
the following requirements:
1. Burning of refuse at the refuse disposal area is prohibited.
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2. No refuse shall be deposited in such a manner that refuse or
leaching from it shall cause or contribute to a condition in
contravention of standards adopted pursuant to Section 17 of
the Environmental Conservation Law.
3. Dumping of refuse shall be confined to an area which can be
effectively maintained and operated in accordance with these
regulations. This shall be controlled by supervision, fencing,
signs, etc. An operator must be present on the site during
all hours of operation. Rules and regulations governing
dumping at the refuse disposal area shall be conspicuously
pos ted.
4. All refuse at the refuse disposal area shall be compacted and
covered daily with a compacted layer of at least 6 inches of
suitable cover material, and a final compacted layer of at
least 2 feet of suitable cover material shall be placed within
one week after the final deposit of refuse is made, unless an
exemption in writing is granted by the Agency.
5. Effective means shall be taken to control flies, rodents and
other insects or vermin at the refuse disposal area to the
extent that they shall not constitute a nuisance.
6. Fencing or other suitable means shall be used to confine papers
and other refuse to the refuse disposal area. Scattered papers
on the site shall be picked up and disposed of daily.
7. The salvaging of refuse shall be conducted in a manner as not
to create a nuisance.
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8. Approach road and on-site roads used by the general public
at refuse disposal areas shall be maintained and kept passable
during all seasons .
SECTION 9. The Closure of Unsatisfactory Refuse
Disposal Areas.
If any person operates or maintains a refuse disposal
area or allows the operation or maintenance of a refuse disposal
area on his property which, after a hearing, is deemed unsatis-
factory by the Committee, the Committee may order that such refuse
disposal area be closed and abandoned. The Committee shall re-
serve the right to order the operator of the refuse disposal area
or the property owner to bear the cost of such closure or of the
closing or the upgrading of the refuse disposal area. The closure
of all unsatisfactory refuse disposal areas shall be done in
accordance with specifications developed by the Cattaraugus
County Refuse Administrator for the closure of refuse disposal
areas.
SECTION 10. Collection of Refuse.
(a) Any person, except for an individual who collects
refuse generated by himself or his immediate family, who collects
garbage, rubbish, dead animals, sewage treatment wastes or putres-
cible industrial wastes after January 1, 1974, must possess a
valid license issued by the Committee.
(b) Any person who wishes to collect garbage, rubbish,
dead animals, sewage treatment wastes or putrescible ind\istrial
wastes must make application to the Committee for a license on
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application forms to be provided by the Committee. A fee of
$25.00 shall accompany the application for a license to collect
refuse.
(c) If after a hearing the Committee deems that the
collector operates in a manner not in compliance with the pro-
visions hereof or in a manner such as to cause a nuisance or
hazard to the public, the Committee may suspend or revoke the
collector's license.
(d) The collector must operate in compliance with the
following requirements:
1. The owners and operators of all vehicles used for
the collection of garbage, rubbish, dead animals,
sewage treatment wastes and putrescible industrial
wastes shall:
(a) Ensure that there is no spillage of liquid
from the vehicle.
(b) Ensure that there is no spillage or blowing
of solids from the vehicle.
(c) Maintain the vehicle and keep it clean.
(d) Affix the name of the pwner or business on
both sides of the vehicle in letters not less
than four inches high and of a color con-
trasting with the background.
(e) Ensure that the vehicle is capable of dis-
charging contents from a stationary position.
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2. All vehicles used for the collection of garbage,
rubbish, dead animals/ sewage treatment wastes
and putrescible industrial wastes shall be stored
in a manner as not to create a nuisance.
3. Collectors shall handle refuse containers in a
manner so that no refuse is spilled during the
transfer from the container to the collection ve-
hicle and so that the container is not damaged
during such handling or as a result of such handling.
Damage to containers not meeting the specifications
set forth herein shall not be covered by this section.
4. The collector shall dispose of the refuse:
(a) After January 1, 1974, only at a refuse dis-
posal area established by the Legislature or
operating under a license issued by the
Committee.
(b) In accordance with the rules and regulations
posted at the said refuse disposal area.
SECTION 11. Containers t
1. Storage of all garbage, dead animals, sewage treat-
ment wastes and putrescible industrial wastes shall be in con-
tainers which completely confine the material.
2. The structure of the containers to confine the afore-
mentioned refuse shall be such that they:
(a) Prevent the exit and entrance of insects,
rodents or other animals.
(b) Can be easily cleaned.
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(c) Will not crack when subject to cold temperatures,
(d) Will not break or burst when lifted.
(e) Are easily unloaded.
(f) Shall be of sufficient integrity to confine
such wastes for a time determined by the
Committee.
3. All containers shall be kept in a clean and sanitary
condition.
SECTION 12. Open Burning.
Open burning shall be prohibited in all incorporated
villages and cities in Cattaraugus County, unless a license for
such burning is issued by the Committee and is also approved by
the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
SECTION 13. Suspension or Revocation of License.
1. The Committee may suspend or revoke a license for
violation of the provisions of this local law or of the rules and
regulations promulgated hereunder.
2. Suspension or revocation of a license shall become
final five days after service of a notice thereof upon the holder
of a license.
3. The holder of the license or other aggrieved party
affected by such suspension or revocation may request a hearing
by the total membership of the Committee to reconsider its action
by serving upon any member of the Committee designated for that
purpose a request for reconsideration within five days following
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the service of the notice of suspension or revocation, which
shall set forth the reasons for such request.
4. Unless the Committee orders that the license be
suspended or revoked during the pendency of the reconsideration,
such suspension or revocation shall be stayed by effective ser-
vice of such notice of reconsideration until final determination
by the Committee.
SECTION 14. Surrender of Licenses.
A license which has been revoked or suspended shall be
surrendered forthwith to the Committee.
SECTION 15. Service of Notice, Order or Decision.
1. Service of any notice, order or decision shall be
made as follows:
(a) By mailing a copy of such notice, order or
decision in a postpaid envelope directed to the
person affected thereby at his residence or busi-
ness address, or
(b) By leaving a copy of such notice, order or deci-
sion with said person or his agent.
2. Service of any notice shall be made upon the
Cattaraugus County Administrator, Committee or Department by
mailing the notice in a postpaid envelope directed to the Adminis-
trator, Committee or Department.
SECTION 16. Exclusionary Clause.
1. The provisions of this local law relating to the
regulation and licensing of refuse disposal areas shall apply only
to the areas of the County of Cattaraugus outside any city,
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village or town during such time as such city, village or town
is regulating or licensing refuse disposal areas, as provided
in Section 10 of the municipal Home Rule Law.
2. The provisions of this local law relating to the
regulating and licensing of refuse collectors shall apply only
to the areas of the County of Cattaraugus outside any city,
village or town during such time as such city, village or town
is regulating or licensing refuse collectors, as provided in
Section 10 of the Municipal Home Rule Law.
SECTION 17. Penalties.
1. Any person who shall violate, or fails to perform
any duty imposed by (a) the provisions of this local law, or (b)
the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, or (c) any
order made or decision rendered by the Committee, pursuant to
this local law or the rules and regulations promulgated there-
under, shall be guilty of an offense, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred fifty
($150.00) dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty
(30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day of
violation shall constitute a separate offense.
2. The provisions of subsection (1) hereof shall not
be construed to exempt such person from any other action, prose-
cution or penalty provided by this local law or by any other
applicable law or ordinance.
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SECTION 18. Separability.
If any provision of this local law or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the
remainder of such local law or the application of such provision
to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected
thereby.
SECTION 19. Effective Date.
This local law shall take effect on November 30, 1973.
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