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Mr. P. W. Andrewe
City Manager
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C. R. Jon Director
Department of Sanitation
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l consider it very important for the City of Miami to have
the 20th Street Incinerator replaced with a solid waste
transfer station at the N. W. 20th Street properties site.
This site is the most economical for the City collection
vehicles to dispose of their loads as it is centrally
located for short hauls and at a location adjacent to where
our vehicles are parked and maintained.
The transfer station is being designed to meet all noise, air
quality, and odor regulations; and the building will be
esthetically pleasing and compatible with the surrounding
neighborhood.
It is planned that all activities will be screened by the
use of landscaping and fencing.
According to information which has been furnished us by Dade
County, the total disposal cost to the City for using the new
transfer facility would be approximately $11 per ton. This
consists of a $3.50 per ton operation cost for the transfer
station and a $7.50 per ton final disposal fee. The City of
Miami's current cost for waste disposal is approximately $15
per ton. This would be a savings to the City of $4 per ton,
and we would be disposing of our waste at a facility that meets
all environmental regulations
As you know, the variance granted by the State and County
Pollution Control Boards for the operation of the incinerator
has expired; and we have requested another variance and exten-
sion of time until the transfer station is completed.
It is now imperative that we immediately obtain the necessary
approval to build the transfer station on the 20th Street
property site as any further delays will jeopardize our chances
of obtaining another extension of time.
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City Cintitrit§iititi Agenda. item
July 17, 197t _ baekrcitrd
20th Street Solid Wbste Tratiater
Station
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The City of Miami owns approxirnately twenty acres of
land on the south side of NW 20th Street between 10th and
14th Avenues, This property, known as the ivlunicipal Shops
Tracts, contains the City' s solid waste operations, mobile
service facilities and roadway maintenance operations.
This centralized location reduced the cost of these services
to City residents. The land use and zoning of the area was
liberal commercial and industrial and the City use of the
property is in accord with plans for the area. The City
Administration recommends that a portion of the 20th Street
site be utilized for a solid waste transfer station because
of its central location for processing refuse, proximity to
highways and major streets, and the long-established public
character of surrounding land uses.
In March of 1972, the joint venture firm of Wegman Co. and Greenleaf/Telesca
prepared a report on solid waste management for the City of Miami. Later that
year the firm of Greenleaf/Telesca prepared a similar study for Metropolitan
Dade County. Common to both of these reports was the 'recommendation to
either upgrade the existing 20th Street Incinerator or replace it with a different
form of processing facility. Based upon recent studies performed for the County,
the replacement of the 20th Street Incinerator in kind is no longer necessary;
rather it has been recommended that the 20 th Street site or a portion thereof be
converted to a transfer station. Dade County, plans to construct this transfer
station from "Decade of Progress" bond funds and to staff this facility with
County personnel. Greenleaf/Telesca was retained as architects/engineers
by the County for the design of this facility. The facility would accommodate
up to 300 sanitation trucks per day, compact up to 1200 tons of refuse per day
and transfer it, via 69 transfer trailers per day, to the County's 58th Street
disposal site.
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Both State and County pollution control agencies granted the City a Variatite
tb operate the thetnerator predicated tompictitig & Solid Waste tratisfer
station by late 197i). The City has requested a new variance however, any
substantial dela.y would jeopardi2e the City' s request and may result it: an
order to close the tficinerator.
Recent actions art. as follows:
Pate
May 8, 1975 Upon the recothttiebtlatiott of the Planning Department and
the Planning Advisory Board (PAD 20-175: March 5. 1975)
the City Commissioh rezoned the 20th Street incinerator
site from R.,C Residential Office tb GUGovernment Use,
which requires Planning Advisory Board recommendation
and City Commission approval of a new governmental use.
(Ordinance 8400)
May 21, 1975
June 18, 1975
The administration applied for approval. of the location of
a Solid Waste Transfer Station on the 20th Street site to be
constructed and operated by Metropolitan Dade County.
The Planning Department recommended approval, with
landscape and access modifications. The Planning Advisory
Board voted to defer this item (PAB 45-75) requesting that
the Planning Department investigate alternatives to the 20th
Street site.
The Planning Department analyzed alternatives and recom-
mended the 20th Street site as the optimum location because
of its central location, proximity to highways and major
streets, overall compatibility with surrounding land uses,
sufficiently large site size, lack of funds for acquisition of
private property, and accessibility to supporting City main-
tenance services and storage facilities for City sanitation
trucks. The Planning Advisory Board voted to postpone a
recommendation, pending cost comparisons of a) the 20th
Street site; b) a site at LeJeune Gardens and c) direct haul
to the County's 58th Street disposal site.
July 16, 1975 The Planning Department cited the following cost comparisons
of the 20th Street site:
the Solid Waste Transfer Station at 20th Street site
will save the City approximately 30% on its cost of
disposal operations: $11. 00 per ton versus $15. 00
per ton at present.
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Honorable lIenilers the pity otnnisson
the location of the Solid Waste Transfer Statt*sn at
LeSuerie Gardens would cost the City an additional
$187, 000 annually in transfer costs, in comparison
with the more centrally located 20th Street site.
Acquisition acid height restrictions also preclude
the use of this site.
direct haut to the Countyis 58th Street dispbsat site
would cost the City an additional $917, 000 try the
initial year of operation and an addttionat $617, 000 in
each subsequent year of operation,
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