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PROGRAM
Shad Springer
City of Santa Maria Utilities Department Manager.
Shad has a degree in engineering and manages all of the cities solid waste management areas which includes water, sewer and garbage.
Shad described the collection process from the front loaders to the curb side collection.
Shad also talked about the diversion process. The state mandates that no more than seven pounds daily, per person, be buried at the landfill.
The new diversion requirement is organic recycling which means that any left over food products not be buried at the landfill because they break down and cause green house gas. Separate containers are required for the organic products.
The city does capture gas that is produced by the landfill and that is piped to co-generation facilities to be turned into electricity and heat.
There is a whole lot more going on other than digging a hole and burring trash.
While all of this is going, on they are working on permitting the eighteen hundred acre Las Flores area.
An amazing and very interesting presentation by Chad and Shad.
