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• • Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.0-11 • Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project • Mitigation Measure C.3. (Same as 2013 EIR Mitigation Measure C.3.) • The Landfill shall implement one of the following wo options exist to mitigate this potentially 0 significant impact: • (a) Heavy equipment operations shall not be conducted within 1,500 feet of any occupied residence after 10 p.m. and before 7 a.m.;or 0 (b) Equipment operations within 1,500 feet of any residence after 10 p.m. or before 7 a.m. shall be fully 0 shielded from the direct line of sight to the residence by an earthen berm whose crown elevation • exceeds the elevation of the top of the exhaust stack. • Significance After Mitigation: 0 Implementation of one or both of these mitigation measures would reduce this impact to a less than 0 significant level. 0 Impact CA. Cumulative Traffic Noise Impacts (Revises 2013 EIR Impact C.4.) In the 2013 EIR, traffic noise levels were modeled for two cumulative scenarios, including a near-term 0 scenario that considers projects in the study area and the 2035 scenario, which is based on the findings 0 of the study of the proposed Mariposa Lakes development. The cumulative noise analysis in the 2013 • EIR found that the near-term and 2035 noise level increases attributed to increased traffic from other • planned development and the increased project truck traffic would exceed the significance criteria at many of the roadway segments. 0 Cumulative traffic noise level increases for the revised project are shown in Table IV.0-4 (columns identified as"Change Existing+Project+Cum from Existing";"Change 2036 Cum NP from Existing NP' and "Change 2036+Proj from Existing NP"). The table shows that the noise levels would increase in 2036 0 (compared to the existing levels)before addition of the noise from the increased project truck traffic. The 0 additional truck traffic noise that would be associated with the proposed project would further increase • traffic noise and contribute to a significant cumulative noise impact. . As stated in the 2013 FIR Summary of Impacts and Mitigation Measures Table, no feasible mitigation 0 measures are available to reduce the projects contribution to cumulative noise impacts. It should be • noted that sound barriers are not feasible in the semi-rural areas that would be affected by cumulative • traffic increases, because the barriers would be far removed from the activity areas of sensitive receptors and the sound barriers would generally be an unnatural barrier not only to noise but also to 0 distant views now possible in these areas. Thus, no mitigations are available for this cumulative 0 impact other than reducing project operations. Such a reduction would be a substantial change to the • proposed project and therefore is addressed as a component of Alternative 2B (Reduced Size/Reduced • Daily Operations Alternative) in Chapter V of the 2013 EIR. Therefore, the project's noise increment is considered to be cumulatively considerable and the cumulative traffic noise impact is considered 0 significant and unavoidable. • 0 0 0 0 0 0