Consolidated Disposal Service (CDS), a subsidiary of Republic Services, is a solid waste collection and transfer business that operates out of a seven-acre facility located on 67th and 68th Streets near Paramount Avenue in Long Beach. The company has over 220 heavy-duty refuse collection and transfer vehicles that support both private companies and local governments within the South Coast AQMD jurisidiction. The facility has an existing gasoline and diesel fueling station and a maintenance and repair garage originally designed for the onsite repair of heavy-duty diesel vehicles.
The South Coast AQMD adopted (and later amended in April 2004) Rule 1193 - Clean On-Road Residential and Commercial Refuse Collection Vehicles, requiring that any new heavy-duty refuse collection vehicles purchase by CDS be alternative fuel. CDS made the decision to go above and beyond the requirements mandated by AQMD Rule 1193 and commenced with purchasing trucks equipped with low-emission liquefied natural gas engines. This led to the subsequent decision to install an onsite LNG refueling station, as well as retrofit the exisiting maintenance facility to accomodate the indoor repair of gaseous fuel vehicles.
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The LNG refueling station is equipped with a 20,000 gallon vertical storage tank, two ten-gallon per minute LNG dispensers, and universal card reader for public accessibility. The station is also equipped with all necessary safety features, including methane detection, LNG containment, alarm/notification systems.
The objectives of this project were: 1) the design, permitting, and construction of a new, publicly-accessible LNG refueling station. This station serves the needs of CDS' fleet of -duty LNG trucks as well as other users located in the Long Beach area; 2) the upgrade of the existing maintenance garage to allow indoor servicing of gaseous fuel vehicles.
The new LNG refueling station provides convenient refueling of Consolidated Disposal Service's current fleet of 42 LNG refuse trucks on a daily basis. No substantive technical issues have been reported since the station commenced operations on July 17, 2009. The station is publicly accessible to other users and accepts mulitple payment forms using a universal card reader. The repair facility modifications were also complete as of July 17, 2009.
The LNG refueling station and maintenance facility upgrades were completed as of July 17, 2009. The LNG station accomodates the current CDS fleet of 42 heavy-duty vehicles; the fleet is anticipated to increase to 61 vehicles in 2010 and 140 trucks in the year 2016. The LNG station has been sized to meet CDS long term LNG fueling requirements.