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Comprehensive Plan Solid Waste Sub -Element Unlike other municipalities within the County, the City of Vero Beach operates its own trash and yard waste collection service. To provide City residents with enhanced recycling collection and back -door recycling collection service, the City of Vero Beach separately contracts with Waste Management, Inc. While the City of Sebastian and the City of Fellsmere contract with Waste Management, Inc. for curbside residential solid waste collection, the Town of Indian River Shores contracts with Treasure Coast Refuse for curbside residential solid waste and recycling collection. • Commercial Collection Both franchised haulers (Waste Management, Inc. and Treasure Coast Refuse) collect commercial trash and recyclables from customers throughout the County, and are not limited to north/south areas as with residential collection. Because no mandatory commercial collection exists within the unincorporated areas of the County, commercial establishments must contract directly with a hauler for trash and/or recycling collection services. Processing/Disposal The processing/disposal component of the SWDD solid waste management system includes separation, volume reduction, special waste disposal, recycling and landfilling. In Indian River County, there is only one active solid waste landfill. • Solid Waste Landfill Located at 1325 74th Avenue S.W., the current County landfill site occupies about 275 acres. The SWDD also owns approximately 300 acres of land immediately north of the landfill site, referred to as the northern expansion area. In 2006, the SWDD Board decided not to develop this area for future landfill expansion and to confine future additions of landfill capacity to the 275 -acre landfill site. Physically, the landfill site is generally flat, as is typical of the area. On site, clean stormwater runoff is channeled by a system of swales to a sedimentation pond from which the overflow is directed through a single outfall into a drainage canal operated by the Indian River Farms Water Control District (IRFWCD). Overall, the site is fairly isolated. With respect to drainage, it is surrounded by canals of the Indian River Farms Water Control District. At the landfill site, soils are poorly drained and comprised of sands, silts and clays with varying permeabilities. The soils include a number of layers of relatively impermeable silts and clays which are, for the most part, discontinuous over the site. The overall shallow aquifer is about 100 to 150 feet thick at the site. Beneath this aquifer is the Hawthorne Confining Unit, which is about 125 to 200 feet thick and overlays the deep Floridan Aquifer. The Indian River County landfill site contains two separate landfills: a Class I landfill (Segments I and II and the Infill Area connecting the two segments) and an unlined Construction and Demolition (C&D) debris landfill. Additionally, a 5 -acre parcel, located within the northern expansion area, is dedicated for grinding of all vegetative debris received. Since June of 2005, all C&D debris has been landfilled on the side slopes and top deck of the unlined Segment I. In 2007, the SWDD Board Community Development Department Indian River County 9