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• <br /> • <br /> Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.G-23 • <br /> Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project • <br /> • Forward Landfill has agreed to a short-term and long-term mitigation of the offsite impacts <br /> of the VOC plume,providing of mitigation water to residence in the downgradient area <br /> who's domestic wells are still adversely affected by the VOC plume. The long-term solution, • <br /> with a financial commitment by Forward, is that all affected property owners in the • <br /> footprint of the downgradient plume will have municipal piped water will be brought in to • <br /> replace the current use of the supply wells; <br /> • <br /> • The residences would continue to be supplied with bottled water until municipal piped • <br /> water is provided; <br /> • <br /> • Because of the potential for impact from the plume to the downgradient receptors • <br /> determination of the sampling program frequency and any changes to it, along with the • <br /> appropriate mitigation, is the responsibility of the RWQCB and must be carried out under <br /> their permit authorization; and • <br /> • The groundwater capture and remediation system could be augmented to capture the <br /> current offsite plume to the satisfaction of the RWQCB based on their review of future • <br /> source control reports. <br /> Implementation of these procedures and protections would reduce the impact to a less-than- <br /> significant level. • <br /> Mitigation Measure G.6: None required. <br /> Impact G.7: Potential decreases in groundwater resources due to loss of recharge surface area. • <br /> The proposed landfilling over the currently unpaved land in the expansion areas would remove <br /> that land from rainwater recharge to local aquifers, resulting in a loss of recharge. As discussed <br /> in the setting section,groundwater resources in the Central Valley have historically suffered • <br /> from overdrafting—where more groundwater is removed than is naturally recharged into the <br /> aquifers. <br /> • <br /> A regional groundwater recharge program is being considered by San Joaquin County Flood • <br /> Control District and Water Conservation District (SJCFCWCD)for conjunctive use. Such • <br /> groundwater storage and recharge programs are designed to store excess water for recharge use • <br /> during the dry summer months. This introduced recharge would not occur during the seasonal <br /> high groundwater of the end of the wet weather cycle, and would not result in groundwater • <br /> elevations that would be higher than historic levels. <br /> The following measures are proposed as part of the project: • <br /> • Continued recharge of extracted and treated groundwater. In the GeoLogic 2017 Corrective <br /> Action Monitoring Workplan the construction of a storage basin for treatment system <br /> effluent that would subsequently infiltrate and recharge the groundwater is proposed. • <br /> Although the recharge program does not specifically address the loss of infiltration within <br /> the expansion area it is designed to generally meet the intent of the water district to • <br /> minimize overdrafting. <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br /> • <br />