§ 44-105. Solid waste facilities.

Every application to develop a solid waste facility shall be treated as a major application. All solid waste facilities must comply with the following performance standards:

(1)

Proximity to airports/heliports. No solid waste facility shall be located within 10,000 feet of the runway centerline of any airport. No solid waste disposal facility shall be located within 5,000 feet of the center point of a helicopter landing pad.

(2)

Proximity to floodplains. No solid waste facility shall be located within 100 feet of the boundary of a flood hazard area as identified on the applicable FEMA Flood Boundary Map for McDuffie County.

(3)

Proximity to wetlands. No solid waste facility shall be located on a property containing a wetland as defined by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

(4)

Distance from a national historic site. No solid waste facility shall be located within one mile of the geographic center of a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

(5)

Proximity to jurisdictional boundaries. No solid waste facility shall be located within 0.5 mile of an adjoining county or municipality border, unless the applicant receives approval of the facility plan from the adjoining government's governing body.

(6)

Proximity to water supply watersheds. No solid waste facility shall be located within one mile of the boundaries of a water supply watershed for a public drinking water system as identified by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

(7)

Proximity to Clarks Hill Lake. No solid waste facility shall be located within one mile of the shoreline of Clarks Hill Lake as measured from the mean high water mark.

(8)

Proximity to regionally important resources. No solid waste facility shall be located within 100 feet of the boundaries of any regionally important resource designated by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

(9)

Proximity to special protected uses. No solid waste facility boundary shall be located within 500 feet of the following:

a.

Any residential structure;

b.

Any private well;

c.

Any educational building, whether public or private;

d.

Any hospital, clinic, convalescence facility, or nursing home.

e.

Any day care center.

(10)

General design standards. All solid waste facilities that receive solid waste on or after October 9, 1993 shall be constructed in compliance with EPA Subtitle D of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, as amended. In addition, such facilities shall comply with the following additional design requirements:

a.

All solid waste facilities shall have a minimum lot size of 100 acres.

b.

All solid waste facilities shall be served by no less than two accessways from a paved public road or highway that are at least 100 feet apart (as measured from accessway centerline to accessway centerline along the intersecting street line). All accessways shall be closed to vehicle access when the facility is not in operation.

c.

No structures associated with a solid waste disposal facility shall be located within 300 feet of any adjoining property line. All land used as a solid waste facility site located within 50 feet of an adjoining property line (including street/road rights-of-way) shall be maintained in a natural vegetated state. The planning commission may require additional screening or fencing as necessary to minimize visual impacts on adjoining properties.

(Ord. of 3-23-99, Art. VI, § 5)

Cross reference

Solid wastes, ch. 66.