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(Continued from Page 1) fill and transporting the county’s solid waste elsewhere for disposal.
‘These are conceptual estimates, based on my experience and industry figures,” he noted.
He projected landfill costs at:
• $500,000 for site development.
• $66,000 a year for repayment of that sum with interest at 12 percent and amortization over 20 years.
• $175,000 for annual operations including debt retirement and post closure ftind.
That works out to disposal costs of $44.87 per ton.
Assuming one central transfer station for collecting and sorting solid waste to be trucked out of the county for disposal, Mr. Joyce allowed:
• $250,000 for site development.
• $33,000 a year for repayment at 12 percent interest over 20 years.
• $150,500 for annual operations, including debt retirement, tipping fees at $15 a ton, transfer station maintenance and operation at $20,000 and transportation at $39,000 (based on four 150-mile trips a week at $1.25 per mile).
Using his figures, the per ton disposal cost for transporting Rappa
95.0%