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r LAKE FARM COMPOST SITE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Purpose This report and plan have been prepared by the Dane County Department of Public Works to be presented to the Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Solid Waste Management in accordance with NR 502.08(4) Wisconsin Administrative Code for a proposed yard waste composting operation. The projected capacity of the Lake Farm compost site is 20,000 cubic yards. 2. GENERAL INFORMATION 2.1 Location The proposed Lake Farm compost site is located in Dane County near Madison's southern corporate limits, part of the southwest quarter of Section 32, Township 7 North, Range 10 East (Town of Blooming Grove). The site is approximately two miles south of the Beltline (Highway 12 & 18). Access would be from Raywood Road which passes through the Nine Springs Sewage Treatment Plant, then following Moorland Road and South Badger Road to Libby Road (see Figure 1). 2.2 Project Description On June 18, 1987, Dane County adopted Resolution 274 which prohibits the disposal of yard waste at Dane County owned landfills after January 1, 1989. While Dane County encourages decentralized composting of yard wastes by individuals and municipalities, the County plans to operate centralized composting facilities to handle source-separated yard wastes. The program will be voluntary in 1988. Because participation is voluntary in 1988, the volume of yard waste that will be delivered to these facilities is difficult to estimate. The Dane County Regional Planning Commission has estimated that 87,000 cubic yards of yard waste are produced annually in the Madison Metro area. Consequently, Dane County assumes that once the separation of yard waste from the waste stream that is landfilled becomes mandatory in 1989, the Lake Farm compost site will be capable of handling 20,000 cubic yards per year. If the need should arise to handle greater than 20,000 cubic yards of separated yard wastes at the Lake Farm composting facility in 1988, or subsequent years, Dane County will handle the excess volume by: 1) applying to the Department of Natural Resources for an exemption allowing additional yard waste to be handled at the Lake Farm or other approved compost sites; and 2) establishing one or more additional yard waste composting sites. • Dane County anticipates operating these sites using low-level technology. The sites will be graded to prevent ponding and surface runoff. A layer of chipped wood will be spread over the site to provide an all-weather work surface. Bulk yard wastes will be delivered to a staging area. The yard waste materials will then be formed into large windrows for composting. Loads containing mixed refuse will not be accepted.