DEQ public hearing Monday, September 14, 6:30 PM at Pine Grove Community House
The Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will hold a public hearing about a permit renewal for the Manzanita transfer station operated by Cart’m Recycling. You can read the permit and related materials at http://www.deq.state.or.us/news/publicnotices/pn.asp.
Following are some questions and answers about the permit and Cart’m operations.
Who gets a permit from DEQ?
Is Cart’m expanding?
What about more construction in the master plan?
What about hazardous waste?
What about yard and construction debris?
What about truck traffic and the condition of Necarney City Road?
What about litter on the road?
What about noise?
Can the transfer station move somewhere else?
Who gets a permit from DEQ? DEQ issues the permit to Tillamook County because the county owns the site. Cart’m operates the transfer station under contract with the county.
Is Cart’m expanding?
Cart’m is not expanding. Our physical footprint, described in our master plan, will not change. Neither the county nor Cart’m have any plans to expand from the original site.
What about more construction in the master plan? The master plan calls for a new building, a recycling island, equipment shed, loading docks and completion of the ring road. These plans are based on extensive research, public meetings and hearings held during 2006. However, economic factors may derail even the best laid plans. We intend to complete the ring road. Other projects will be either delayed or not completed at all.
What about hazardous waste?
The initial DEQ notice for public comment contained AN ERROR stating that the Manzanita transfer station accepts hazardous waste. DEQ corrected the error almost immediately. Cart’m does NOT accept, handle or store hazardous waste of any kind. In addition, we will no longer host hazardous waste events. Tillamook county residents may take their household hazardous waste to the permanent hazardous waste facility at the Tillamook Transfer Station due to open spring 2010.
What about yard and construction debris?
Locals have brought yard debris and construction waste to the site for over fifty years. Until a few years ago, we burned those materials. Now they are chipped and hauled by Trails End Recovery under a contract with Cart’m.
What about truck traffic and the condition of Necarney City Road?
We agree Necarney City Road desperately needs improvement. Last year we shipped by truck, (includes roll-off trucks with trash dumpsters) approximately two times per week, usually both trucks on Tuesday mornings between 8am and 10am. We expect to continue about this level of truck traffic.
What about litter on the road?
Cart’m staff instructs customers that uncovered loads are illegal and may carry up to $1000 in fines. The Still family adopted Necarney City Road as part of ODOT’s program to control roadside litter. Cartm staff and volunteers patrol the Cart’m site and access road for litter daily.
What about noise?
Staff and volunteers are reminded regularly about ways to reduce noise. Loudest activities (glass dumping and crushing) are restricted to between 10am and 5pm daily.
After receiving complaints about noise, we moved the glass bins as far from neighboring households as possible. We have also modified our equipment so we can dump glass less often. We are, however, required by DEQ to receive glass and prepare it for shipping.
We cannot restrict the timing of packing dumpsters with the backhoe, but we can try to do this only between 10am and 5pm. Depending on how busy we are, this may take less than 5 minutes a week or as much as 10 minutes a day.
Forklift and backhoe back up alarms are required by OSHA regulations.
We have mostly completed our construction projects. However, construction noise generally happens during business hours on weekdays and is temporary.
Can the transfer station move somewhere else?
This issue was addressed during multiple public meetings during our master plan approval process in 2005 and 2006. County planners reported there were no other reasonable sites and it would not be cost effective to move the transfer station.
DEQ hearing
DEQ public hearing Monday, September 14, 6:30 PM at Pine Grove Community House
The Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will hold a public hearing about a permit renewal for the Manzanita transfer station operated by Cart’m Recycling. You can read the permit and related materials at http://www.deq.state.or.us/news/publicnotices/pn.asp.
Following are some questions and answers about the permit and Cart’m operations.
Who gets a permit from DEQ?
Is Cart’m expanding?
What about more construction in the master plan?
What about hazardous waste?
What about yard and construction debris?
What about truck traffic and the condition of Necarney City Road?
What about litter on the road?
What about noise?
Can the transfer station move somewhere else?
Who gets a permit from DEQ?
DEQ issues the permit to Tillamook County because the county owns the site. Cart’m operates the transfer station under contract with the county.
Is Cart’m expanding?
Cart’m is not expanding. Our physical footprint, described in our master plan, will not change. Neither the county nor Cart’m have any plans to expand from the original site.
What about more construction in the master plan?
The master plan calls for a new building, a recycling island, equipment shed, loading docks and completion of the ring road. These plans are based on extensive research, public meetings and hearings held during 2006. However, economic factors may derail even the best laid plans. We intend to complete the ring road. Other projects will be either delayed or not completed at all.
What about hazardous waste?
The initial DEQ notice for public comment contained AN ERROR stating that the Manzanita transfer station accepts hazardous waste. DEQ corrected the error almost immediately. Cart’m does NOT accept, handle or store hazardous waste of any kind. In addition, we will no longer host hazardous waste events. Tillamook county residents may take their household hazardous waste to the permanent hazardous waste facility at the Tillamook Transfer Station due to open spring 2010.
What about yard and construction debris?
Locals have brought yard debris and construction waste to the site for over fifty years. Until a few years ago, we burned those materials. Now they are chipped and hauled by Trails End Recovery under a contract with Cart’m.
What about truck traffic and the condition of Necarney City Road?
We agree Necarney City Road desperately needs improvement. Last year we shipped by truck, (includes roll-off trucks with trash dumpsters) approximately two times per week, usually both trucks on Tuesday mornings between 8am and 10am. We expect to continue about this level of truck traffic.
What about litter on the road?
Cart’m staff instructs customers that uncovered loads are illegal and may carry up to $1000 in fines. The Still family adopted Necarney City Road as part of ODOT’s program to control roadside litter. Cartm staff and volunteers patrol the Cart’m site and access road for litter daily.
What about noise?
Staff and volunteers are reminded regularly about ways to reduce noise. Loudest activities (glass dumping and crushing) are restricted to between 10am and 5pm daily.
After receiving complaints about noise, we moved the glass bins as far from neighboring households as possible. We have also modified our equipment so we can dump glass less often. We are, however, required by DEQ to receive glass and prepare it for shipping.
We cannot restrict the timing of packing dumpsters with the backhoe, but we can try to do this only between 10am and 5pm. Depending on how busy we are, this may take less than 5 minutes a week or as much as 10 minutes a day.
Forklift and backhoe back up alarms are required by OSHA regulations.
We have mostly completed our construction projects. However, construction noise generally happens during business hours on weekdays and is temporary.
Can the transfer station move somewhere else?
This issue was addressed during multiple public meetings during our master plan approval process in 2005 and 2006. County planners reported there were no other reasonable sites and it would not be cost effective to move the transfer station.