REPORT FROM EDCO MEETING

About 80 people attended Wednesday night's informal meeting about the proposed EDCO green waste facility on Betsworth.

These are Valley Center Planning Group Chairman, Oliver Smith's thoughts on the meeting:



"Tonight's EDCO meeting was interesting. I let EDCO's President and CEO
Steve South know at the beginning that it was not a formal planning
group function but rather an informal opportunity for him and the
neighbors to talk. About 80 people showed up for about 2 hours. Steve
worked his way through a presentation, but it was peppered with
questions shouted out by the audience. For the most part it was civil,
but a couple of comments pushed the civility edge," said Smith.

His notes are below:


- Property purchased in April, 2008. Although there are no permits that
have been formally requested, it appears that they have a letter from
the Water District saying they will be served.
- The compost grinder will be electric inside a building to reduce
noise.
- Plan is for 18 wheelers to come from transfer stations around the
county, 20 trips in and 20 trips out per day plus 2 local trash trucks
with green waste per day plus transports by local community members.
- All incoming green waste will be questioned as to source and only non
quarantine material can be composted. After composting the heat during
the process sterilized the material.
- EDCO will be selling the final compost on site and shipping it out.
- There will be 8-10 people on site, hours planned are 7AM-5PM Monday
through Saturday. They claim they need to conform to this and will n\be
monitored to not go outside the times.
- Composting will be done by aerated covered static piles - after
chopping up the mulch, the pile is covered, air is injected, and the O2
and heat are monitored - it takes about 45 days to process.
- They have no equivalent facilities anywhere else in San Diego County.
- They will be inspected one a month by Dept of Environmental Health.
- There is an old Adobe house on the property that was offered to be
cleaned up and available for FFA an other local groups.
- When asked how the project would benefit the neighbors, the response
was that they felt it would preserve the rural nature of the area and
use of the Adobe house.