Here you can see my next project, construction of a community collection center (CCC). We currently operate 5 of these facilities where citizens can drop off bulky waste that won't be picked up curbside. This new CCC will replace the older, smaller one on the same property. The old one has room for 5 roll-off containers to place waste into. This one will have 16 roll-off bays! It also has a more functional layout and will be more user-friendly for both the citizens AND the employees that drive the trucks to move the containers around.
There is still much work to be done, but when it's complete, citizens will approach from the right (west) on the picture, loop around the CCC on the east side, and enter near the bottom left (north end -- where you can see the concrete foreman standing in the photo). After checking in with the attendant at that point, they can pull up to a container, unload their waste, and then exit toward the south (top of the photo), back onto the same road they entered on. We will also have room for white goods storage and a collection area for batteries, and the project includes paving of the access road and many stormwater improvements.
This has been a long time coming. We began talking about it in 2005. In fact, it was one of my first projects when I started this job. With the engineer, we began design in 2006 and permitting in 2007. Seriously. Permitting took about a year, which is a ridiculously long time. Then there was some question as to whether or not this would be too expensive to construct, so after going through a long process to add funds to our budget, we were able to go out to bid at the end of 2008. We issued a Notice to Proceed to the contractor in March 2009. We've had ups and downs since then. Boy howdy have we had them... in the middle of one right now but I won't go into it. I almost live at the site. I'm out there every day, sometimes all day, but it's necessary to keep things in order since my budget won't allow a full-time presence by the engineer. Suffice to say, I will be thrilled when this is complete and open to the public!!! October can't come soon enough. :)
That looks fabulous!
ReplyDeleteI wish we had one of those here (if we do, it's a well-kept secret). Here we have to save all the things (batteries, broken big stuff that can't go in the rubbish bin) for semi-annual collection times. It is nice that they come to us to pick it up, but sometimes I'd like to just be able to get rid of it when I want to get rid of it!
Enough ranting. I think the site looks great and I'm sure plenty of people will be very happy to use it!