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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JUNE 19, 1984 PAGE 2 <br />In the next eight to ten weeks, the board is going to put together a <br />Request For Proposal which will be approved by the County Boards, and <br />issued to the RDF vendors. Because of the second technology, (RDF) <br />and the fact that the initial EIS was for a mass burn facility, the <br />EIS will be changed to include a RDF facility. The Met Council has <br />started that work. <br />Regarding land acquisition in Lake Elmo, Mr. Wood stated that several <br />months ago two land appraisals were done and they were reviewed by <br />Briggs and Morgan, the Counties legal firm. They requested that one <br />more land appraisal be done because there were some disparities in a <br />couple of the appraisals. The Counties have hired another appraiser <br />and that process is underway. At the same time, the attorney is <br />putting together legal documents that will be necessary for the <br />counties to enter into negotiations with the landowners in that area. <br />The Waste -To -Energy staff has authorization from the project board to <br />proceed with negotiations for land acquisition. <br />Regarding what areas will be acquired for the project, Mr. Wood stated <br />that they have previously gone on the basis that they would enter into <br />negotiations for the parcels that they initially appraised. They have <br />since decided that there is one parcel that probably will not be <br />needed (the far south of the total section). Right now the areas that <br />will probably be negotiated will include the Dreher, Hildebrandt, <br />Brochman and part of Enright property. <br />Another area that Mr. Wood suggested be addressed by the counties in <br />the near future is the water, sewer and water runoff issue. This type <br />of study would probably take three to four months of intensive work by <br />TKDA, and would be paid for by the Waste To Energy Project. <br />Mr. Joe Schilli, Consulting Engineer with Henningson, Durham and <br />Richardson, (HDR) made a slide presentation of a RFD facility in Ames, <br />Iowa that was constructed in 1975 and has been operating since that <br />time. In Ames, Iowa, they take the RDF and mix it with coal to burn <br />in their City Park land to produce electricity. <br />Mr. Schilli stated that the RDF facility would receive the same <br />garbage and trash that would go to a mass burn facility. Of the <br />residue that is produced, approximately 25% of the solid waste that <br />goes to a RDF facility will be rejects that have to go to a landfill; <br />where mass burn facilities generally run 20% by weight that have to go <br />to a landfill. In a mass burn facility, the rejects that go to a <br />landfill would be ash that comes out of the combustion chamber. In <br />the RDF facility the rejects that go to the landfill are basically <br />those components of the solid waste that are non-combustible. The <br />entire purpose of a RDF process facility is to separate the <br />non-combustible from the combustible material. <br />Mr. Wood stated that there may be opportunity to economically separate <br />some of the non-combustible materials, and that option will be looked <br />at. However, because of the volatile markets on ferrous metal and <br />glass and other types of material of that nature, you cannot count on <br />that as a major protion of your income when you are looking at the f <br />