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annual increase of 2.9 percent to the year 2000 (San Joaquin Council of Governments 1985), the City is rapidly expanding, in particular to the east and south, (Walker 1988) . Its industrially-zoned land base is proposed to extend along Mariposa Road to within one quarter mile of the project site. There are no residences immediately adjacent the project site. The closest is located about 600 feet to the south, while two others are situated 1,600 feet to the north and 2,000 feet to the northeast respec- tively. The rural community of Collegeville is about one mile east of the proposed facility. Most of the 65 residences within a one-mile radius of the site are in the vicinity of this unincorporated community, notably along Mariposa or Kaiser Roads (see Figure 2.2) . The agriculturally-related industrial services in the vicinity include a heavy equipment rental facility and a fertilizer distribution operation located between Mariposa Road and the AT & SF railroad tracks immediately northwest of the site. In addition, there are two landfills about two miles south of the project area on the west side of Austin Road. One is a 157-acre private landfill operated by Forward Inc. It also includes a 30-acre comprehensive paper, scrap metal and wood recy- cling operation (Basso 1988) . The other is the City of Stockton Austin Road Landfill , on a 145-acre site. A small energy recycling process in the form of methane recovery is conducted on the property (Chen 1988). Agricultural Land Uses The project site is flat, composed of soils that are characteristically of a "Jacktone Clay" type, accompanied by hardpan substrata of "Clearlake Clay" and "Capay Silty Clay,"(Sorenson 1988) . All three are silty clays, created by alluvial deposits in the bottom- lands of the former delta region of the San Joaquin River. The adobe- like nature of the soils is conducive to slow drainage and places minor limitations on crop productivity. These properties qualify the soils a Class III, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Soi Conservation Service (SCS) . Nevertheless, because of its histori productivity, the SCS classifies the area as "prime farmland". Thi 3-3 104-3.R4 4/13/89