3.7 hazardous materials and hazardous waste - Missile Defense ...

Chapter 3—Affected Environmentconditions. The current ADEC solid waste disposal permit comes up forrenewal May 1, 1999. No determination has yet been made to close theexisting landfill at Fort Greely because of BRAC. (Delta/GreelyCommunity Coalition, 1998—Final Reuse Plan, Fort Greely, Alaska)Off-base. The city-owned landfill in the Delta Junction area is leased to aprivate collection company, Delta Sanitation. The current landfill startedas a pit with an area of 37 square meters (400 square feet) and a depthof 4.6 meters (15 feet) that was dug in 1984. Delta Sanitation collectsup to approximately 76 cubic meters (100 cubic yards) of municipalwaste per week from Delta Junction and the outlying areas. This wasteis then burned in large "burn boxes" (large incinerators). The resultingash is then dumped into the landfill pit. Large household waste is alsodisposed of at the landfill pit. The pit is currently one-third full and hascapacity for another 12 to 15 years of use at the current rate. There isno provision for asbestos-contaminated materials or hazardous waste ofany sort. There is limited capacity for clean construction waste. (Peters,1998—Personal communication)The Alaska Department of Environmental Control, in coordination withthe city council and Delta Sanitation, is in the process of determiningwhat changes will be required to the current solid waste disposalprogram. No specific changes have been determined, and no specificdate of change has been established. However, since the waste disposalprogram now in effect is not standardized, it is likely that changes ofsome sort will be instituted. (Peters, 1998—Personal communication)EnergyElectricity and Steam—On-base. Electrical power requirements at FortGreely are currently met through a combination of power supplied fromFort Wainwright and on-post generators run by Fort Greely personnel.The electrical power from Fort Wainwright is "wheeled" over thecommercial electrical grid that exists between the two bases and iseventually supplied to Fort Greely through an existing 2.9-megawattsubstation. The U.S. Army Alaska pays Golden Valley ElectricalAssociation (which is described in section 3.13.1.1) for the use of itsgrid. The average electrical power demand at Fort Greely wasapproximately 1.835 megawatts when all buildings were in use.However, peak demands of up to 3.3 megawatts sometimes occurredduring the winter. When the demand at Fort Greely exceeded thecapacity of the substation, the additional power requirements were metby the three on-post diesel-powered generators, which together cangenerate up to 0.95 megawatt. (U.S. Department of the Army, 1997—Preliminary Draft EA for the Disposal and Reuse of Surplus Property atFort Greely, Alaska)3-376 NMD Deployment Final EIS