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Transport & Tipping Floor
| At the Transfer Station, the waste is compacted, loaded
into containers, and then loaded on railway cars and shipped
to the Facility. At the Facility, cranes unload the rail
cars and place them on specially equipped yard trucks
for delivery into the facility's "tipping hall".
This unique railway system is both energy efficient and
environmentally sound. The waste processed at this Facility
would normally call for about 125 trucks to deliver the
same amount of waste delivered by one train. This system
mitigates truck traffic around the Dickerson area road
system. Railyards with gantries are maintained at both
the Transfer Station and the RRF to load and unload the
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At the end of the waste-to-energy process at the RRF,
the remaining ash is again transported by train. This
time, the destination is the Brunswick
Waste Management Facility, Inc. (BWMF) in Brunswick,
Virginia. |
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Upon entering the tipping hall, the trucks dump their
waste into the storage pit. This building is designed
to manage odors through the use of giant fans that pull
the air off the tipping floor and into the boilers.
The air is used to support combustion.
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