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Section 1 <br />Geographic and Solid Waste Stream <br />Evaluation <br /> <br />1.1 Geographic Area <br />This solid waste management plan covers Cabarrus County and Kannapolis, <br />Harrisburg, Midland, and Mount Pleasant. A portion of the City of Karmapolis lies in <br />Rowan County, but municipal solid waste from the entire city limits is disposed of at <br />the Lowes Motor Speedway (LMS) landfill. <br /> <br />The most recent population figures available from the North Carolina Office of State <br />Planning (OSPL) are for the period ending July 2001. Population estimates for the <br />County and each of its municipalities are summarized below in Table 1. <br /> <br />Table 1. Estimated Population, July 2001 <br /> <br />MUNICIPALITIES & COUNTY POPULATION <br />Cabarrus County. 136,312 <br />City of Kannapolis (Cabarrus County Only) 28,719 <br />City of Concord 58,710 <br />Town of Mount Pleasant 1,298 <br />Town of Midland 2,627 <br />Town of Harrisburg 4,795 <br /> <br />Between 2001 and 2005, the OSPL expects the population of Cabarrus County to reach <br />150,296, which represents a growth rate of 4%. Projecting out to the remainder of the <br />10-year planning period (2010), the OSPL expects the County population to rise to <br />166,897, an 18.3% increase over the current population. <br /> <br />1.2 Waste Stream Evaluation <br />In this plan, residential waste refers to waste generated by households (individual <br />and multi-family dwellings). The term non-residential refers to waste generated from <br />commercial, industrial, and institutional activities. Construction and demolition <br />waste is generated from construction activities and is separated from non-residential <br />waste in this plan because it will be disposed in a different facility than most non- <br />residential waste. <br /> <br /> According to the most recent available County Waste Disposal Report provided by <br /> the Solid Waste Section, Cabarrus County and its municipalities disposed of <br /> approximately 187,508 total tons of waste in FY 2000-2001. This tonnage included <br /> 90,040 tons of C&D waste disposed of at the County's C&D landfills, 97,375 tons of <br /> waste landfilled at the LMS landfill, and 93 tons of waste transported out of the <br /> County for disposal at other facilities. An estimate of the waste disposed by sector is <br /> <br />P \Cabarrus - 1278~38870 Updale Sol~ Waste Man P~an ,~mend~ent 21~'efl~ts'~Dra~ Refx~Sect~on 1 doc <br /> <br /> <br />