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Mr. Scott Walker March 25, 1995 Page 2 This combined with the good weekly and monthly inspection reports over the January/February time period show that the City and the demonstration project have performed well. Therefore, the City will not be terminating the project as is suggested in the Report. Since the project will be continuing and because of the importance of this ADC project as a first step toward composting, the City feels it is necessary to address each of the issues raised in the Report. Under the "Problems Observed" section of the Report, there are four items. Item #1 concerns the use of a geosynthetic tarp and includes this statement, "[t]he tarp has limited approval for use and was never approved for more than overnight use." The attached proposal for the demonstration project, which was submitted to and approved by the LEA, contains the following statement in the introduction, "[t]he geotextile blanket will serve as a back up alternative cover at Austin Road Landfill in the event that ground green material is not available or wet weather precludes the movement of green material and soil." Clearly, the use of a tarp has been approved. In addition, no restrictions concerning "limited approvar, or "overnight use" were included in the proposal and none of the inspection reports notes a problem with the use of the tarps. Another issue raised under this item concerned the "short supply" of green waste for cover material. In the proposal for the demonstration project, the City obviously anticipated that the quantities of green waste would not always be sufficient to meet the needs of daily cover. This is supported by the fact that the City included a request to use the tarp in the event that "ground green material is not available." Again, not one of the LEA's inspection reports notes ADC supply as a problem or concern. Item #2, states"[v]isquene plastic has been used as ADC at ARL. Visquene is not an approved ADC." Gambi Enterprises, the City's landfill contractor, submitted a winterization plan dated October 23, 1995 to the LEA for review and approval. Under section four of the winterization plan, it states "[i]n the event that it is too wet to place soil cover over the working face of the Landfill, then [sic] the working face shall be covered with Covertech Tarps, visqueen, etc." Because the LEA had not objected to the use of visqueen in the T:\WPW MOLIDWSnGREENWST\REPORT.RSP