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r Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page III-20 • Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project Bustamante), alternative daily cover and other beneficial reuse of waste materials in the operation • of a solid waste landfill were defined as constituting diversion through recycling(PRC Section • 41781.3). In LEA Advisory 50,the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle)states that municipal solid waste landfills represent a potential ideal location for waste diversion end uses. Disposal sites typically have ready access to waste materials amenable to diversion and the diversion facilities necessary to produce these materials. . Based on a review of Forward's 2016 waste acceptance summary, the majority of materials accepted at the Forward Landfill are from San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Sacramento counties. More than eighty-five percent of the material accepted at the Forward Landfill is from San Joaquin . County and the directly adjacent counties. Less than 0.02 percent of the waste was from San • Francisco and Santa Clara counties. Of the materials accepted at the Forward Landfill from counties that are not directly adjacent to San Joaquin, the majority are beneficial reuse materials. The 2013 EIR described an approximately 7.5-acre pilot project for land application of cannery • waste (see pages III-13 and 111-14 of the 2013 EIR). As described under G. Recent Projects at the Forward Landfill, below, in February 2014 the Regional Water Quality Control Board issued new Waste Discharge Requirements for the Forward Landfill that included, among other modifications, the land application of cannery waste in the northern portion of the site (north of • the North Fork of South Littlejohn Creek). The cannery wastes season is from June through October.The residuals handled are primarily from the processing of peaches and tomatoes. The waste consists of whole fruits and vines,pomace(the solid remains of fruit after pressing for juice),culls, leaves,and cannery rinate water and mud. The cannery wastes are trucked to the site . and dumped and spread evenly over native ground. The waste is allowed to dry and is then • incorporated into the soil. Proper evaporation prevents anaerobic odors and interrupts the life cycle of flies. The solar drying of wet material within five days prevents fly development. Daily records are kept for the cannery waste disposal describing the loads received, location of disposal area,a log of unusual occurrences, and the removal of extraneous material. Potential unusual • occurrences include precipitation in the late summer to early fall. The cannery waste area is ' surrounded by a berm;in the case of an unlikely precipitation event,the water would be disced into the soil and allowed to dry. Land discharge of cannery wastes as a soil amendment is considered a reuse of materials,which aids the County in achieving State-mandated waste • diversion goals. . Existing Landfill Storage and Support Facilities Existing support facilities at the two landfills consist of an entrance facilities area, two scale • houses and three scales, two water production wells, maintenance and storage areas, a transfer station/materials recovery building, a landfill gas-fired electrical generation plant, a groundwater extraction and treatment system, a landfill gas flare station, leachate evaporation basins, a tire wash, and sedimentation/detention ponds. • The main scale house is located at the center of the eastern boundary of the existing Forward Landfill site. A second scale house and scale is located in the southeastern portion of the landfill (to serve the resource recovery facility).