Proposed Shredder in West Sacramento Going Before Council for Third Time

The city of West Sacramento, Calif., and the Port of West Sacramento will be holding a scoping meeting for the draft environmental impact report/environmental impact statement for the West Coast Recycling Group (WCRG), which is seeking to build an auto shredder at the port.

The meeting is scheduled for Oct. 14 and is open to the public.

WCRG is seeking a conditional use permit from the city of West Sacramento and a ground lease from the port of West Sacramento to construct and operate a scrap metal shredding and recycling facility at the port. Operations at the facility would include scrap metal sorting and scrap metal shredding, material separation and processing to extract usable material and stabilization of nonmetallic material to make it useful as sanitary day cover in landfills.

The vehicles that are to be shredded on-site will already have been dismantled by other companies to remove vehicle fluids, tires, batteries and re-usable parts. The facility would be a state of the art design, with modern emission controls and an industrial stormwater system to capture and re-use rainwater, as described in a Sept. 22, 2010, memo from the City of West Sacramento Community Development Department to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research/State Clearinghouse and Planning Unit, responsible agencies, trustee agencies and interested parties.

The city of West Sacramento has applied for an over-the-counter grant from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program administered by the California Department of Housing and Community Development Department and funded by HUD. The grant would fund design and construction of a new main entrance to the port.

Downstream of the shredder, the processed materials would undergo material separation to segregate ferrous from nonferrous metals and to collect non-metallic residues.

"The proposed metal recycling facility would process automobiles and scrap metals through the shredder at an average hourly throughput of 170 gross tons, with a maximum of 220 gross tons per hour. The maximum daily shredder throughput is estimated to be 1,760 gross tons per day. The monthly throughput is estimated to be 25,000 gross tons,"  according to the City of West Sacramento Community Development Department memo.

For details on the meeting, click here.