Service Area & Statistics
Solid Waste Department
- Average total tonnage: 38,845 per year, 747 Tons per week average
or 149 Tons per day.
- Total average pounds of solid waste per year collected: 77,690,000
- Number of households served: 18,782 or 3,756 per day.
- Weekly special services: 39
- Bulky item service average: 107 per week or 5,571 per year.
- Christmas tree pick up service: 36.51 tons or 73,020 pounds.
- Number of daily routes: 7.
- Number of drivers employed: 9
- Number of lead persons: 1
- Number of supervisors: 1
- Estimated number of containers (Black and Blue) owned by the District:
60,000
- Solid waste is processed at Rainbow Environmental Services and CR&R Disposal and
transferred to the Frank R. Bowerman Landfill.
Frank R. Bowerman Landfill Site Information
- Landfill opened in 1990
• Accepts non-hazardous, municipal solid waste from commercial haulers
only.
- Maximum permitted daily refuse intake for the facility is
8,500 tons per day.
- Approximately 725 acres with about 341 acres
to be used for waste disposal.
- Scheduled to close in 2053.
- A public park is the planned end-use of the site.
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
- Fully lined to protect groundwater.
- Landfill gas monitoring,
recovery and control system.
- Three habitat restoration areas.
- Landfill gas condensate
collection system.
- Load Check Inspectors
to collect and properly dispose of hazardous waste.
- Fire,
dust, insect, rodent, bird, litter and noise controls.
