FACILITY MANAGEMENT PLAN. TAM Organics Compost Facilty HOUGHTON LANE BENNINGTON, VERMONT. December 15, Facility Owner:

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1 FACILITY MANAGEMENT PLAN TAM Organics Compost Facilty HOUGHTON LANE BENNINGTON, VERMONT December 15, 2012 Facility Owner: TAM, Inc. 639 North Rd. Shaftsbury, VT p: f:

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION SITING SUMMARY STATE / REGIONAL / AND TOWN PLANNING DESIGN AND OPERATIONS PLAN OPERATOR TRAINING PLAN... 6 LIST OF APPENDIXES Appendix A: Appendix B: Appendix C: Appendix D: Maps Bennington Solid Waste District SWIP Compliance Certificate of Service Example Feedstock Log December, 2012 i

3 1.0 INTRODUCTION The following Facility Management Plan for the TAM Shaftsbury Composting facility ( Facility ) has been prepared to address the requirements of Subchapter 11 of the Vermont Solid Waste Management Rules. The purpose of this plan is to provide a basis for the design of the Facility, an operating plan for all Facility components, and to demonstrate compliance with the Rules. The Facility meets a cocommunity and regional need for an organics recycling facility that can further both the community and the State of Vermont s desire to recycle as much of the waste stream as possible. The TAM Bennington Composting facility serves clients primarily in the Bennington County Region, as well as surrounding areas and the western portion of Rensselaer County in New York, and Berkshire County in Massachusetts. 2.0 SITING SUMMARY (c) of the Rules identifies several specific standards that must be met for categorical composting certification. This application addresses these standards in the following manner: The Facility is located at Houghton Lane in a disturbed area with the closest resident over 450 feet away. Any wet areas or streams will be a minimum of 830 feet from any activity associated with the composting operation. The location of the Facility is shown on the Site Location Map in Appendix A. None of the prohibited area restrictions apply to this Facility. A point-by-point summary follows. 1. Within three feet above seasonal high groundwater, or within six feet above bedrock. The active windrows will not be located on areas with these subsurface groundwater characteristics see appendix A. 2. Within one hundred feet of Class B waters, designated by the Water Resource Board 3. Within a Class I Ground Water Areas. 4. Class I or Class II Wetlands and their associated buffer zones as defined in the Vermont Wetland Rules. 5. Class III Wetlands as defined by the Vermont Wetland Rules. The State of Vermont does not consider the impacted wetlands to be significant. It is anticipated that the Army Corp of Engineers will declare the wetlands non-jurisdictional 6. Public Water Supply Source Protection Area. 7. Within 150 feet of a public highway or the property line of adjacent properties or as determined by the Secretary. 3.0 STATE / REGIONAL / AND TOWN PLANNING Bennington Solid Waste Implementation Plan This composting facility is acceptable to the Town s SWIP and has been approved by the Bennington Selectboard. December, 2012

4 4.0 DESIGN AND OPERATIONS PLAN 4.1 Overview and Basis of Design A Facility site plan is included, which illustrates the Facility layout and design. The total site area used by the facility is 7.3 +/- acres. The active compost area is 30,000 square feet, and the parcel size is approximately 200 acres. Estimated material quantity throughput serves as the basis for design of the facility and layout has been determined to maximize flexibility, minimize impacts, and allow for future expansion, if necessary. The Facility design has been developed with the goals of promoting safety, and minimizing environmental and neighborhood impacts to the area. General procedures will be as follows: Feedstocks will be trucked in when available and piled on site near the building. These will include: sawdust, horse manure, yard waste, hay, and grass clippings. Food scraps and other organics picked up on our routes will be brought to the site and dumped onto an impervious 6 inch thick concrete pad. The driver will then remove any contaminants that he did not see when picking up and place them in a dumpster on site. There will be a loader that will push the material into a bunker and the route driver will then cover the pile with a layer of horse manure before leaving the site. If incoming material contains free flowing liquid, saw dust or dry mulch hay will be used as an absorbent to soak up any liquids. It is expected that deliveries will occur mid-morning. During the same day our operator will finish mixing different ingredients with the food scraps/organics to create the desired carbon to nitrogen ratio. Once the recipe is combined, we will load a manure spreader and drive this with a tractor to the active windrow location. The spreader will then mix and aerate the material as well as create the windrow. We plan on using a turned windrow system to create our compost. To create a productive recipe we will work to mix various feedstocks to achieve a 20:1 to 30:1 carbon to nitrogen ratio. Feedstocks will remain in separate piles and mixed based on yardage or bucket load quantity to achieve this ratio. Moisture content will also be a concern. We will keep our horse manure as dry as possible using tarps if need be to blend with incoming food scraps to achieve a moisture content of 50-65%. We will also work to create a bulk density of lbs per cubic yard. With these recipe parameters we will be suited to retain nutrients, moisture and therefore reduce pile emissions, vectors and leachate. In addition to the recipe we understand the requirements of maintaining a temperature of at least 131 degrees Fahrenheit for at least 13 of 16 consecutive days. During this time we will turn the material to ensure that all materials reach this temperature. Recording of these results will be kept available for inspection. Once finished, the cured compost will be screened for any remaining litter and then trucked to the TAM Transfer Station property for resale. Testing will be done on a bi-annual basis by Soil Control Labs in California (or the equivalent) and include testing for the following: Nutrients and other agriculture related constituents, stability, maturity, salmonella, metals, and fecal coli form. December,

5 4.2 Hours of Operation Hours of operation for the facility are as follows: Monday Saturday 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM The facility will not be open to the general public. 4.3 Design Capacity The design capacity of the facility is as indicated in Table 1 below: Table 1: TAM Composting Annual Volume in Yards Material Type Manures Leaf, grass and yard waste Food scraps Carbon Bulking agents i.e. straw/grass etc. Wood waste Other?* Annual Amount Accepted 10,000 yd 3,000 yd 5,000 yd 3,000 yd 3000 yd 2000 yd(?) *other feedstocks accepted for composting will be approved by the Solid Waste Program prior to acceptance. Capacity numbers are based on windrow linear feet and number of windrows. We expect to have approximately two yards per linear foot of windrow when creating a new windrow. However as piles begin to reduce, and as needed to control any bird issues we will top dress piles with additional non-food waste material. In addition, we expect the final product will be complete and allow us to utilize pad space for four batches a year of windrows. 4.4 Staffing The facility has one part-time worker on site that will screen all incoming material for contamination, mix material, create windrows, maintain windrows, and load finished material to be sold. Before the facility reaches full capacity, two full-time staff members are anticipated. 4.5 Materials Handling and Facility Operations Odor control: December,

6 After consultation with similar compost operations involving clean organic waste streams, odors are managed most effectively by industry accepted practices of timely incorporation of fresh organics into a high carbon bulking agent such as mulch hay or horse manure and put into a windrow. Monitoring the windrows for aeration, moisture content, temperature and making the appropriate adjustments to industry standards during day to day operations appears to be most appropriate for preventing odors from becoming an issue. If odors do occur we can apply one foot of finished compost to the surface of the windrows to act as an odor filter. We do not see this as neccesary for most of the material, rather in the rare case of a smelly load. Furthermore, with the primary wind direction of from the west we expect little or no impact on neighbooring properties. We will include a wind sock at the facility to provide wind direction so that we can be contious of when the winds may be from a direction that could effect a neighboors house. In this instance we will hold off turning material untill the time that perdominant wind direction shifts. Noise control: Noise will be mitigated by adhering to current setback regulations and maintaining existing natural buffers such as forested areas and natural berms. The closest adjacent house is a minimum of 300 feet from the nearest windrow. The equipment used in the mixing and windrowing operation are normal commercial and agricultural impliments and hours of operation will be restricted to the hours listed above to minimize disturbance. Vectors, dust, litter: Vectors will be minimzed by processing any food scraps on the concrete slab and incorperating the material into a high carbon recipe for windrowing the same day as they arrive on site. All food scrap material will be inspected and any plastic or unacceptable waste will be removed while on the concrete pad. Once in the windrows if birds or other vectors become a problem, a top dressing of finished compost or wood chips will be applied to reduce surface picking of edibles. Dust will be managed by watering roads as necessary. Litter will be minimized by pre-screening the material and walking the site daily and the use of windrow covers, if it is deemed necessary. Leachate and Stormwater runoff: Carbon material will be covered and stored on site. Once the carbon and the nitrogen materials are incorporated it will produce optimum conditions in which the windrows will absorb several times their volume of water from rain or melting snow. In addition windrows will be contoured parallel to existing grade, therefore minimizing any ponding that may occur. A berm will be constructed around the site to prevent offsite runoff. Furthermore, a lined pond with approxiamatly 150,000 gallons of capacity will be constructed downslope for collection of any on-site leachate run-off from the mixing and active composting areas. This will be pumped and reapplied as necessary. The leachate is a valuable component of the finished compost and represents a loss of nutrients. We want it to stay in the windrows and thus in the final product. If there is excess leachate in the pond and we cannot reapply it for various reasons (ie: spring time saturation of piles) we will have a septic company pump the leachate out and deliver to the Bennington Wastewater treatment plant. Because we want to reaply liquids we do not propose any vegatative treatment areas at this time. Discharge from the curing and finished storage area will be treated via a sand filtration system sized to treat the water quality volume and discharged off the compost management area via overland flow and vegetative uptake. December,

7 Contaminants: Contaminants will be managed by site source inspections and contracts will have language drafted to prevent contaminants from entering the waste stream initially. TAM is distributing training materials including poster to all of their food waste customers. We will inspect additionally as part of day to day operations to remove materials that may have made it through initial screening on the concrete pad. We understand compost is not a viable product for resale if contaminated. Fire: Fire risk will be managed by installing fire extinguishers as required in the mixing station and monitoring windrow moisture conditions as not too dry or hot. If properly maintained for moisture content, compost windrows are not a fire hazard. There is a stream on site which could be used for pumping if necessary and the Shaftsbury Fire department is less than two miles from this site. Equipment: Delivery trucks will be standard waste compactor trucks, roll-offs and trailers. Windrow equipment will be a skid steer, an agricultural tractor, manure spreader,windrow aerator and water tank, pump trailer and loader. Birds: Bird congregation will be minimized through top dressing of active piles with non-food waste material. If bird issues arise microfiliment around the active composting windrows will be constructed. Other techniques will be researched and applied on-site if the proposed measures are not effective. 4.6 Site Security: The site is currently gated to prevent any access outside of normal operating hours. 4.7 Emergency Numbers: 911 dialed from the cellular telephone will go to Waterbury State Police Mangament Contacts: Trevor Mance Mary Beth Maguire (W) (H) (W) (H) Fire Department Ambulance Police Sampling Plan for Metals Concentrations, Stability and Maturity Tests: Stability and Maturity Testing shall be completed as needed in order to ensure composting quality and shall be tested using two out of the three following methods: December,

8 1. Temperature measurement to verify decline to near ambient temperature (less than 110 degree F) 2. Solvita Compost Maturity Test 3. Plant Tests by TAM or third party Metals testing shall be completed as needed in order to ensure composting quality and shall meet the following maximum concentrations: Parameter Max Total Concentration (mg/kg dry wt) Arsenic 15 Cadmium 21 Chromium 1200 Copper 1500 Lead 300 Mercury 10 Nickel 420 Zinc OPERATOR TRAINING PLAN The Facility management, MaryBeth Maguire and Trevor Mance have successfully completed the ANR Compost Operator training in November December,

9 APPENDIX A Maps Vermont Natural Resources Atlas Soils Map Facility Site Plan December,

10 LEGEND Wetlands - VSWI Class 1 Wetland Class 2 Wetland Wetlands - VSWI Advisory Layer DFIRM Preliminary Floodways Special Flood Hazard Areas (All Availa Counties) AE (1-percent annual chance floodplains with A (1-percent annual chance floodplains withou AO (1-percent annual chance zone of shallow feet) 0.2-percent annual chance flood hazard zone Special Flood Hazard Areas (Prelimina DFIRM) AE (1-percent annual chance floodplains with A (1-percent annual chance floodplains withou AO (1-percent annual chance zone of shallow feet) 0.2-percent annual chance flood hazard zone SurfaceWaterSPA GroundWaterSPA NOTES Map created using ANR's Natural Resources Atlas TAM Composting Facility Vermont Agency of Natural Resources vermont.gov 18, : 12,740 December 14, WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Meters THIS MAP IS NOT TO BE USED FOR NAVIGATION DISCLAIMER: This map is for general reference only. Data layers that appear on this map may or may not be accurate, current, or otherwise reliable. ANR and the State of Vermont make no representations of any kind, including but not limited to, the warranties of merchantability, or fitness for a particular use, nor are any such warranties to be implied with respect to the data on this map.

11 Soil Map Bennington County, Vermont (TAM Composting Facility) Natural Resources Conservation Service Web Soil Survey National Cooperative Soil Survey 12/14/2012 Page 1 of 3

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13 APPENDIX B: Bennington Solid Waste District SWIP Compliance December,

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15 APPENDIX C: Certificate of Service December,

16 APPENDIX D: Example Feedstock Log December,

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