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City ~ Elkk. '- River TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Item# 6.1. MEMORANDUM Mayor and City Council Stephen Rohlf, Building and Zoning Administrator February 19, 2002 '~' Request to Construct Electrical Generation Facility at the Elk River Landfill bY Waste Management and the Elk River Municipal Utilities -Case # CU 02-01/P.H. Request Waste Management, the Elk River Municipal Utilities and Sherburne County are jointly working on a project to construct a facility at the Elk River Landfill to produce electricity from landfill gas. The project requires approval of a conditional use permit. Attachments A letter dated, December 31, 2001, from Bryan Adams, General Manager of the Elk River Municipal Utilities. Site plan, building layout and building elevation for the proposed structure. Review There is a generator currently at the landfill that is capable of producing 525KW. The proposal is to replace the existing generator with up to 4 new ones capable of producing an ultimate electrical capacity of 3200KW. This is enough electricity to serve more than 2,000 homes from a resource that would otherwise be wasted (landfill gas). The generators will be housed in ~'building that will also include offices and a meeting room. The meeting room will be used for educational purposes for energy and waste issues. This project will be an Energy City Demonstration. Staff did have the city's environmental consultant for the landfill review this request. His comments are reflected in the stipulations below. The Landfill's conditional use permit was recently reviewed and renewed. Staff is proposing that this issue be made an addendum to that exiting CUP. Staff also agrees with Bryan Adams' comment in his attached letter that drainage is not an issue with this request.