Chapter 15 Disposal Collection

The Disposal Collection describes all Provider data related to formal disposal sites (landfills, rendering facilities, or incineration facilities). Each disposal site is expected to represent a single unique physical location, although more than one activity may occur at that location.

15.1 Understanding and using the Disposal Collection

There are several key features and properties of the Disposal Collection that users should understand to effectively use the Collection:

  • unique Disposal IDs
  • type of Disposal site
  • location data
  • data sharing between providers

15.1.1 Unique Disposal IDs

Each Disposal site must be uniquely identified with the Disposal ID property. Disposal ID may be any string of letters, numbers, and/or characters, but must be unique per Provider. It is recommended that the unique identifier match that used by the Provider to identify the Disposal site.

15.1.2 Type of Disposal Site

The type property describes whether a Disposal site is a landfill, rendering facility, or incinerator. Disposal by landfill assumes that carcasses, parts, bulk, or roadkill are deposited on the land. Disposal by rendering facility assumes that carcasses, parts, bulk, or roadkill are recycled into other forms. Disposal by incinerator assumes that the carcasses, parts, bulk, or roadkill are burned.

15.1.3 Location Data

A Disposal site’s location may be important for CWD surveillance, management, or other applications. The sub-administrative area in which a Disposal is located is used in several Models and Visualizations. For instance, only Disposals with assigned sub-administrative areas will be included in the Risk-weighted Surveillance Quotas Model or Hazard Model 2.0. The precise location of a Disposal may be geocoded from a provided address or through direct entry of a latitude/longitude pair of values in decimal degrees.

15.1.4 Data sharing between Providers

Disposal details, including name, email, and phone are accessible only to Provider users. General or aggregate location data may be shared in regional visualizations.

15.2 Visualizations that can use the Disposal Collection

  • Provider Ad hoc
  • Regional Ad hoc

15.3 Properties

An asterisk (*) denotes a required field.

Primary details

Field name Definition Allowed values
Disposal ID* A processor identification code; must be unique at the Provider level any plain text string containing numbers, letters, and/or symbols
Sub-administrative area The sub-administrative area (county or equivalent) in which the operation is physically located
Type* The type of disposal operation landfill, rendering facility, or incinerator
Owner Type Who is running the disposal operation private, city, county

Contact details

Contact information is considered sensitive and is not accessible to or shared with users associated with other Providers.

Field name Definition Allowed values
Name Contact full name any plain text string containing numbers, letters, and/or symbols
Email Contact primary email address any plain text string containing numbers, letters, and/or symbols
Phone Contact phone number any plain text string containing numbers, letters, and/or symbols

Address

Field name Definition Allowed values
Address (Street Address, City, Administrative Area, Postal code) Physical address of the Disposal business free text
Latitude The latitude value Automatically populated when user clicks on map
Longitude The longitude value Automatically populated when user clicks on map
Geolocation Source Where information originated Automatically populated when user clicks on map
Geolocation Precision Precision of information Automatically populated when user clicks on map

Disposal details

The details of the disposal site allow the Warehouse to understand associated risk weighting.

Field name Definition Allowed values
Disposal instructions How objects are to be disposed free text
Accepts carcasses Whether the site accepts carcasses Null, Yes, No, Unknown
Accepts parts Whether the site accepts carcass parts Null, Yes, No, Unknown
Accepts bulk Whether the site accepts bulk material Null, Yes, No, Unknown
Accepts roadkill Whether the site accepts roadkill Null, Yes, No, Unknown
Accepts bagging Whether the site requires bagging Null, Bagging required, Bagging preferred, Unbagged required, Unbagged preferred, No Preference
Notes Any relevant metadata any plain text string containing numbers, letters, and/or symbols

Business Status

The Business Status provides corresponding dates and business status values. Business status indicates whether a Disposal site is still in operation (Open), is no longer in operation (Closed), or is of unknown status (Unknown).

Field name Definition Allowed values
Date* The date corresponding to the status provided M/D/YYYY format
Status* The status of the Disposal site as of the date provided Open, Closed, Unknown
Notes Any relevant comments any plain text string containing numbers, letters, and/or symbols