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AGENDA REPORT
CITY OF MOORPARK
TO:
Honorable City
Council
FROM:
Jill R. Myers,
Solid Waste
Coordinator Y1111--
DATE:
March 22, 1994
(CC Meeting
of April 6, 1994)
SUBJECT: Consider Update on AB 939 Diversion Status.
BACKGROUND
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As you are aware, the California Integrated Waste Management Act
(AB 939) requires jurisdictions to reduce the amount of waste
disposed at landfills - 25% by 1995 and 50% by 2000.
B 2494 (1993) made a number of technical changes to AB 939. Most
notably, AB 2494 changed the method of measuring progress toward AB
939 diversion goals to measure changes in disposal at area
landfills, rather than changes in total waste diversion.
The California Integrated Waste Management Board contracted with
UCLA to develop the new methodology for calculating AB 939
diversion figures based on disposal. Ventura County was selected
by the Board to serve as a model jurisdiction to test the new
diversion formula.
The County was provided a computer program with the new formula to
determine diversion percentages for each jurisdiction and those
figures were distributed to each city.
The new calculations show that Moorpark is at 31.70% diversion for
1993. The diversion figure represents the reed coon in the amount
of tonnage disposed at the Simi Valley Landfill in 1993 compared to
the base year (1990) figures as reported in the SRRE. The new
methodology also accounts for disposal reductions resulting from
changes in the population, employment, and taxable transactions.
Previously, the diversion percentage based on current generation
was determined by dividing the amount of materials diverted from
the total wastestream (disposal + diversion). Using the previous
formula based on generation, Moorpark diverted 17% of the
wastestream in 1993. Thus the new calculation accounts for the
reduction in tonnage disposed at the landfill (31.70 %) , rather than
the yearly tonnage amount diverted from the total waste generated
(17 %) .
Honorable City Council
AB 939 Diversion Status
April 6, 1994
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County staff seem confident that the new methodology used for the
model jurisdictions will be used to determine compliance. It must
be noted that although Moorpark has exceeded the 25% goal in 1993,
the new regulations compare the reduction in the amount of tonnage
disposed in 1995 and 2000 to determine compliance.
Other East County cities also had high diversion percentages for
1993 - Simi Valley had 33% and Thousand Oaks had 32 %.
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