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Define Satellite Accumulation, Storage, and Tank Areas

For many types of waste, you need to store and accumulate your waste on-site before processing it on-site or shipping it off-site to another entity. You can store waste in a tank, a permanent fixture in which you store waste before emptying it to transport it. Or, you can store small amounts of waste in a container in which you ship it. Alternately, you might have a satellite accumulation area where you are permitted to store small amounts of waste before transporting it to a processing facility.

Use the Define Satellite Accumulation, Storage, and Tank Areas task to define the exact location on site where you store and accumulate your waste.

For waste that is immediately discharged into the air , you will not need to define a storage area.

You can define satellite accumulation areas, storage, and tank areas by filling out the form, or directly by clicking on the map. Each method is described below.

Defining locations using the form

1. Do one of the following:
   • To add a satellite accumulation, storage, and tank areas to a new location, select a site and click Add New.
   • To adjust the latitude and longitude for a defined area, in the drill-down selection list, choose the site in which the area resides. For example, the initial values for the area come from the Buildings table. You might want to manually edit these values if you have used a handheld GPS to pinpoint the desired location.
2. When entering accumulation, storage, or tank areas, enter the following required fields:

   Site Code	Fills in with the site you select from the drill-down selection list. You must associate the area with a site.
   Area Type	Choose whether the area is a: satellite accumulation area storage area tank
   Accumulation / Storage / Tank Area	Enter a unique name to identify this area.

3. Enter the following fields as needed:

   Building / Floor / Room	Select the location of the area.
   Property	If you are tracking waste in terms of properties, choose the property on which this storage area or tank is located. If you are tracking waste in terms of sites only, leave this field blank.
   Latitude/Longitude	Once a property or building is selected, the program populates the latitude and longitude fields with the corresponding values for the selected building. This information is used to place waste associated with this location in map views. You can manually enter these values if you have used a GPS device to pinpoint the exact location. You can also locate the storage area on the map, as described in the following section.

4. Click Save.

Defining locations directly on the map

Geocoding processes are often approximate. They compute coordinates by interpolating street addresses along lengths of road which might not be the location you want to specify. Additionally, some addresses return no valid results at all, not even acceptable approximations. For these reasons, you might want to override and refine the geocoded results by clicking on the map to locate the object.

To define a location directly on the map:

1. Click Locate on Map.

   A different mouse cursor appears. The application plots the existing location, if any, or else zooms to the location of the site or building shown in the form.

2. On the Asset Map, click the point on the map where you want to define a location.

   The application plots a different color marker (for example, yellow versus the default red circle) where you click.

3. If needed, zoom in to further inspect the location.
4. If you are not satisfied with the new location, click again. The first yellow marker is erased, and the application plots a new marker where you most recently clicked.
5. Once satisfied with the marker placement, click Set Selected Location to confirm the placement, The application updates the Latitude and Longitude values in the edit form above with the new coordinates.
6. Click Save to commit the coordinates in the form to the database and refresh the map.