Operated by Waste Management • Solid waste accepted from all areas within the Central Texas COG • 269 permitted acres • Will be expanded to 440 permitted acres • Accepts 385,000 tons of solid waste per year on average • 33,000 tons in Sept 2015 • Began recycling program in Jan of 2014 • FY 2014-2015 collected almost 3,000 tons of recycled material
• Selected out cell boundary polylines • Exported selected lines to a shapefile • Used the cell boundary shapefile to select out elevations for specific area from all 3 CAD files • Saved each elevation selection in different shapefiles for the liner, Feb 2014 topo, and final grade levels
images with the same base height as the TINs • Within scene properties, set vertical exaggeration to 2 • Set layer symbols to solid with transparency and illumination in scene properties for better 3D viewing MODELING PROCESS CONT.
cell boundaries layer and saved 3 differently named copies corresponding to each TIN layer • Used the Polygon Volume in the 3D Analyst toolset to calculate volume for each layer
and future years to create a time line of landfill elevations • Perform volume analysis and compare to Waste Management’s volume numbers for future years • See how population growth within City of Temple has impacted landfill’s growth over the years