DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT SITE. The Project Site is comprised of multiple non-contiguous GPC project areas located across various portions of the upper and middle sections of the Altamaha River Basin, Georgia (Appendix 2). Collectively, those areas include 672 miles of shoreline that offer long-term buffering potential between lands that lay adjacent to lake and riverine habitats. A GPC project area may include: • a particular GPC–owned FERC hydro facility or other managed facility such as Rum Creek WMA where lacustrine or riverine shorelines exist, or • a non-project bulk property where shorelines occur. GPC’s Land Department-based Forestry Program manages company-owned bulk properties following four primary objectives. Bulk properties are most often geographically adjacent to GPC infrastructure such as sub-stations, powerline corridors, or power plant facilities. Specifically, GPC’s land asset management objectives: • support GPC’s core business, biomass, and sustainability initiatives; • promote the use of company natural resources for the general public and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation; • wisely utilize the company’s renewable resources for revenue generation; and • protect and enhance the scenic, environmental, wildlife, recreational and historical values of forestland assets. For the purpose of scientific investigations of freshwater mollusks listed in this CCA, the term “project area” also may include free-flowing reaches of rivers in the vicinities of any of those types of GPC-owned parcels. Detailed project area maps (Appendix 3; Pages 1-
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT SITE. 1. Project Site The Project Site includes approximately 19 miles of stream channel in the Ocmulgee River, between Xxxxx Xxxxxx Dam and a low head dam at Juliette, Georgia, between river miles 250.2 and 230.9. The Project Site is within the Altamaha River drainage and is approximately 120 river miles from the Ocmulgee River’s confluence with the Oconee River. The watershed above Xxxxx Xxxxxx Dam encompasses approximately 1,492 square miles and is largely urban. Xxxxx Xxxxxx Dam, which impounds Xxxxxxx Lake, provides peaking power to meet electrical power demands. Several tributaries enter the Project Site, however, they provide limited habitat value for robust redhorse and are not part of the Project Site.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT SITE. The Buncombe County Solid Waste Management Facility was opened in September 1997. In addition to a Subtitle D landfill disposal area, the facility has a C&D landfill, a wood waste mulching facility, a convenience center for residential waste disposal and recycling, and drop-off areas for white goods and tires. The Subtitle D landfill disposal area comprises approximately 100 acres of the more than 600-acre site. The landfill has been designed with 10 separate disposal cells that will be constructed sequentially over the estimated 30-year life of the facility. Cells 1 and 2, which comprised Phase I of the landfill, were constructed with the standard Subtitle D composite liner system (i.e., two feet of clay with a permeability less than or equal to 1 x 10-7 cm/sec in combination with a 60-mil HDPE synthetic liner) as described in 40 CFR 258.40(b) and Section .1600 of the North Carolina Solid Waste Management Rules. In 1999, Cell 3 was constructed with an alternate composite liner system (18-inches of 10-5 cm/sec clay, a geosynthetic clay liner [GCL], and a 60-mil HDPE synthetic liner). The State of North Carolina did not allow alternate liners until 1998. The County recently bid and expects to begin construction by August, 2000 on Cells 4 and 5 which will also be constructed with the alternate liner system. This agreement is intended to potentially cover all ten cells of the landfill, with a decision point for the parties and stakeholders contingent upon a review and evaluation of data from cells 1-5 as well as an assessment of project success every five years which will coincide with the decisions to renew the landfill’s operating permits. As noted previously, both the Federal and State regulations allow leachate recirculation over the standard composite liner system prescribed in Subtitle D, however, neither allow it over cells constructed with alternate liners. On Cell 3, the alternate liner system saved Buncombe County nearly $400,000 as compared with the standard composite system. It is estimated that the County will save a total of $5 million through build-out of the facility if the alternate liner system is used. Other potential cost savings from the project include: ■ $5 - $10 million in reduced construction costs for additional landfill capacity if an increase of 20%-30% in additional waste volume can be achieved due to rapid waste decomposition during operations; and,
