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Geographically the City is divided into two contiguous areas. This affords the optimum <br />collection efficiencies by keeping the required driving distances to service the population with <br />the least amount of driving. Eighty percent of all households have alley service and the 20% <br />that have no alley access are serviced from the street. During the observation period where <br />distances were monitored, this ratio of alleys and street service were maintained. The average <br />distance between households was approximately 83 feet. <br />St. Cloud <br />Currently there are 17,335 single family households, 517 duplexes and 80 tri-plexes receiving <br />municipal MSW and recyclable material collection services. Residents may choose from two <br />service level options including bag service or 90 gallon cart service. The bag service requires <br />residents to purchase specially marked "City" bags. Residents who subscribe to the 90 gallon <br />service are supplied a cart by the City. Any material beyond the 90 gallon carts capacity must be <br />placed in "City" bags. Currently 757 households subscribe to the cart service program. <br />Refuse and recycling collection for City residents is provided Tuesday through Friday. <br />Collection is performed by four trucks with two person crews. Collection vehicles are capable of <br />lifting/dumping carts. <br />Dual sort recycling services are provided weekly for both levels of service on the same day as <br />MSW collection. Residents are required to sort their materials in a City provided bin. Recycling <br />collection is performed by seven trucks with a one person crew in each truck. <br />Stillwater <br />Currently there are 5,471 single family households and 195 multi -family households being <br />serviced by the City's contracted hauler, Waste Management. Residents may choose from four <br />levels of service including a senior service, 30 gallon, 60 gallon or 90 gallon service. <br />Single sort recyclable material collection service is provided for all four service levels and is <br />collected on an every -other week basis. Wheeled carts for recyclable materials are provided to <br />residents by Waste Management. These collections are also done utilizing ASL vehicles. <br />4.4 Structure of Institutional Arrangements <br />This section of the report addresses additional background information that can have some <br />bearing on rates and solid waste management system performance for the ten in-depth cities. <br />4.4.1 Open System Cities <br />Duluth <br />The city of Duluth has completed evaluations of residential collection in the past and has <br />consistently decided to not get directly involved with service delivery or administration. The <br />City in conjunction with the WLSSD actively promotes recycling with mandatory collection and <br />a fairly aggressive volume based rate schedule. WLSSD has authority for solid waste <br />management equal to that for counties and a history of waste processing and designation to their <br />co -incineration facility for Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) and sewage sludge which operated from <br />1982 to mid-1999. WLSSD implemented a hauler collected service charge which was upheld by <br />84 •Foth Infrastructure & Environment, LLC R - Analysis of Waste Collection Service Arrangements.doc <br />June 2009 <br />