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player ready...Naperville officials are seeking bids for a study on what it would take to operate a solid waste transfer site in town to reduce the costs of refuse disposal.
The study is expected to cost about $20,000 and will involve searching for a suitable site and determining the cost of the operation. How it will be paid for has yet to be determined. The project is unbudgeted.
City analysis showed an ongoing problem with availability of disposal sites and a need to provide “effective, efficient, and safe” method of delivering residential refuse to disposal sites, according to a city memo.
City officials believe a solid waste transportation center would reduce collection costs by lowering the time and distance required by haulers to travel to distant disposal locations; reduce traffic by consolidating smaller solid waste loads onto larger vehicles; reduce air pollution, fuel consumption, and road wear and tear by consolidating waste into fewer vehicles; and provide a guaranteed disposal location if a strike would occur.
Early projections by a city committee showed that a transportation center would save the city a minimum of $160,000 a year.
In other business this week, the City Council agreed to amend its boundary line with Lisle to accommodate a developer’s request to annex 8 acres in the county to Lisle.
The land, at the southeast corner of Radcliff Road and Burlington Avenue, includes four residential parcels on the Naperville side of the boundary. Inland Real Estate Development Corp. wants to purchase the land for redevelopment, but said it is more feasible to extend utilities from Lisle rather than Naperville to the site.
The council will require the developer to cover the administrative costs incurred by the city.