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a Aust R®ad dum setforMa p hearing y The Forward Inc. solid waste at the time it was approved en- especially since it is situated next Greg Basso, owner of Forward disposal site north of Manteca visioned the type of use that is to the south fork of Little John's Inc., maintains his firm has not will be discussed in public going on out there." Creek from which many farmers harmed or polluted anyone. He hearing by the California The site was licensed to receive pump irrigation water. maintains the Farm Bureau is Regional Water Quality Control "non-hazardous" materials, In January the Farm Bureau being used as a front to fight a Board May 27 at 10 a.m. including semi-solid waste from and its legal representatives battle of retribution by a large The hearing will be held in the the FMC plant in Modesto which presented reports showing high garbage collecting firm which Stockton City Council Chambers, contained barium and strontium; levels of chloride and electrical lost part of the San Joaquin 425 N. El Dorado St., Sockton. pesticide-contaminaminated soil conductivity in soil samples taken County contract to Basso's In January the San Joaquin from the former Occidental at eight to 10-foot depths beneath company, Delta Container. Farm Bureau Federation Chemical Co. in Lathrop and Forward Inc.'s evaporative charged that the Class II7-1 dump battery acid-contaminated soil ponds. If chlorides are seeping site, located on Austin Road six ,from L.A. Winchel Co. of throught the clay-lined ponds, During the May 27 public miles north of Manteca, was Sacramento and oil well drilling Farm Bureau representatives are hearing Forward Inc. will be leaking wastewater. muds. concerned even more harmful asked to submit a detailed time "We want to get to a public The Farm Bureau protested the minerals might find their way schedule of specific actions to hearing for input as to what licensing of the plant at that time into the groundwater supply. The correct or prevent violations or should be done with the site,"said and has continued to fight For- chlorides alone, which are salts, requirements at the Austin Road Mantecan Mike Gikas, county ward Inc.'s existance in the midst are enough to inhibit crop growth site. The meeting is open to the Farm Bureau president. "No one of prime agricultur2il land, they say. public.