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include operational and maintenance costs only and do not 

 reflect capital expenditures. Cost estimates received by New 

 York City for Denver's sludge management program varied 

 significantly from those reported by the Congressional staff; 

 Denver's estimated land application costs received by New York 

 City were $180 per dry ton. New York City was unable to verify 

 the cost estimates for Chicago during 1:he time available for 

 generating this response. 



In 1982, New York City spent $6,224,285 to dispose of 91,319 Dry 

 Tons of sludge or $68.16/Dry Ton. 



Based upon our estimate of cost to transport sludge to the .lft6 

 mile site of $23.22M, the cost to dispose sludge at the 106 mile 

 site would be $254.27/Dry Ton. 



It can be seen that sludge disposal costs in New York City are 

 not ordinately lower than in other cities. When one also 

 considers that the costs of all municipal services are higher 

 tiere than in other cities, to seek out more expensive methods 

 for any of these services without a sound basis would be 

 indefensible. When alternate methods are environmentally less 

 acceptable, as we believe land based methods are compared to 

 ocean disposal, such a switch would be irresponsible. 



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