Resource Recovery Facility: Online Tour

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 railcars.

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.

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.