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per day while generating electrical power to the Manassas Electric Utility and steam to IBM. He described the project as “one of the most attractive I have seen to date.”
According to Mr. Taylor, cost of solid waste disposal through the facility would run from about $22-25 per ton in the first year of operation (1988) to less than $10 per ton at the end of the 25 year finance period. Using the same economic assumptions on total cost, interest rates and annual average inflation, he estimated the cost for disposal at a sanitary landfill at a low of $15-20 per ton to a high of $50-60 per ton at the end of the same 25 year period.
State grant awarded for study
Bill Wiggons, director of public services for Loudoun, reports that representatives from the four localities met again last week in Manassas. The consortium has been offered a $20,000 grant from the Department of Mines, Mineral and Energy to further study the joint energy congeneration facility. Each of the localities has added $1,250 to match the state grant. “It’s a small commitment, but it’s still a commitment in local tax dollars,” Mr. Wiggons noted. “We have to answer some real difficult questions,” from policy questions such as how to raise the necessary capital, what each locality’s share will be, whether the facility will be operated publically or privately and what are the implications for the local governments if an authority is created to technical questions as fundamental as plant design. “But we’ve agreed to go forward, although for only $25,000, we’re going to have to limit the scope of our study.”
He emphasized that Loudoun County has yet to determine if hauling trash to a joint facility some 40 miles away will be economically feasible. Loudoun’s board of supervisors already owns and operates a landfill in the county. “Even if we pull out (of solid waste disposal there), we free a long term liability for environmental damage from the trash that’s already buried.” However, he acknowledged that the potential for additional groundwater contamination posed by the sterilized ash from a resource recovery facility
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