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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD <br /> CENTRAL VALLEY REGION <br /> ORDER NO. R5-2003-0049 <br /> WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS <br /> FOR <br /> FORWARD INC. AND ALLIED WASTE INDUSTRIES <br /> FOR <br /> OPERATION OF <br /> FORWARD LANDFILL,A CLASS II FACILITY <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter Board) <br /> finds that: <br /> 1. Forward Inc. (hereafter Discharger) a subsidiary of Allied Waste Industries owns and <br /> operates a Class II solid waste landfill about seven miles southeast of Stockton. The landfill <br /> is located in Section 3, TIS, R7E,MDB&M, as shown in Attachment A,which is <br /> incorporated herein and made part of this Order. <br /> 2. The Discharger operated Forward Landfill since 1973. The adjacent Austin Road Sanitary <br /> Landfill was owned by the City of Stockton and operated intermittently from 1954 to the <br /> present. In September 2000,the Discharger purchased the Austin Road Landfill. This WDR <br /> combines operations at the old Forward Landfill and the Austin Road Landfill under a single <br /> permit. The combined landfill (hereafter Forward Landfill) is approximately 567 acres <br /> facility and includes both existing and future waste management units, as shown in <br /> Attachment B,which is incorporated herein and made part of this Order. The facility is <br /> comprised of Assessor's Parcel Numbers (APN) 181-150-07, 181-150-08, 181-150-09, 181- <br /> 150-10, 201-060-01, 201-060-02,201-060-03, and 201-060-05. <br /> 3. The Discharger proposes to construct new Waste Management Units for the discharge of <br /> Class II waste on approximately 121 acres between the old Forward Landfill and the Austin <br /> Road Landfill. <br /> 4. On 20 June 1997,the Board issued Order No. 97-141 for old Forward Landfill, in which the <br /> facility was classified as a Class II waste disposal site. The facility includes one Class I unit <br /> (WMU A). On 7 June 2002,the Board issued Order No. R5-2002-0121 for Austin Road <br /> Landfill, in which the facility was classified as a Class III municipal solid waste disposal site. <br /> This Order classifies the future Unit(s) at the combined landfill as Class II units that accept <br /> solid waste in accordance with Title 27, California Code of Regulations, §20005, et seq. <br /> (Title 27). <br /> SITE DESCRIPTION <br /> 5. The measured hydraulic conductivity of the uppermost aquifer underlying the Unit ranges <br /> between 2 X 10"2 and 2 X 10"3 cm/sec. <br />