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Application for a Servile Sharing Grant Part Two ,oposed .Project cities of Roseville, Shoreview, Arden Hills, White Bear Lake, 'admits Heights, Falcon Heights, i.anderdale, New 13 f'ghton and Little Canada together with Ramsey County. White Rear Township, the Metropolitan Council- Office of 11 Assistance, MN/DOT Maintenance Rematch Division and the Local Road 1 esearth Bond propose to begin multi ju isdiction maintenance materials recovery operation to save each community costs of disposing of said matoriats and p rchasing new on an annual basis. re lead staff contact for this grant is: Duane Schwartz City of Roseville public Works 2660 Civic Center Drive. Roseville. MN 55113 Phone 490-2311, FAX 490 -2319 ,1. ground A I wally, eath community ±uses ,materials Bu as sand for ace control, small gravel for seat -co repair in. suummer, aril so products for median, boulevard. and parse application. Sand picked up from spring sweeping is used for fill atpeses or if no public apace is available, hauled to landfills for disposal. Seal -coat ;ravel may be given back to company doing ro repair ar, if it is a municipal operation, the gravel may be used for other purposes. or stored for the following year. it may also it be purchased as needed for differ projects_ Disposing of theme attateriaire or in the ease of soil products- p ing it, increases annual costs for read and street .maintenance operations. s project a dresses ',:eau main problems and provides corresponding ..solutions. I. arrenr arrangements have each community working separately in terms of asing these maintenance materials. They dispose of their own street sweepings and seal -coat aggregate. and process (or purchaser their own soil materials. 2. These materials are currently used only once and then disposed of. Then, the following year new materials are purchased again. 3. The only option available to several communities is to haul the "used"' materials to landfills. The tip fee for the nearest landfill is over $75 per ton. Added to that is approximately ;110/ton in labor, equipment and overhead costs. Further, it can be argued that road maintenance material is inappropriate material to be landf1lled. 4. This disposal practice is very vastly to taxpayers. is situation is not unique to these cities and Ramsey Comity. As cities become fully developed, there are fewer areas th are available to deposit such materials. Recent policy changes at both state and national levels prohibiting the Ailing of wetlands also oniributes to this issue. However, in the meantime, motorists ;xmtinue to expect local gavernmsente to r and salt their roads each winter so they may enjoy a higher margin of vehicular salty. Each year, maintenance c a deposit and average of 20 tons of Rand per mile of city street_ is leads to the current situation. Out of the 11 partner cities, eight have •nun out of space to deposit their street s' i ings and °thee road maintenance materials. These materials are considered somewhat undesirable by other in isdietions, and politely refuse the offer of "free fill." This leads to basically one option for disposal- -iandfilling. rrent Costs L ,rent prices for sand used for ice control vary from a low of $2.75 to more than $5,00 per ton delivered, with an av e a of about $4.50. It's low cost is one reason erhy it was aronsiderett acceptable to use only inane and then dump the sp 'ng sweepings into low spots on mrwieipal property. Prices for seal -coat chips are higher. and vary between 515 and 321 depending on the type and grade of material arced.