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This Partial Final Closure/Post-Closure Maintenance Plan (PFCPCMP) for the Forward Landfill has been prepared to implement closure of the Stage IA closure area. Liquid seeps were observed which occurred during the 2004/05 winter season and reported by Forward Landfill Inc. (the permitted owner and operator/discharger) to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). The seeps were observed in the area highlighted as the Stage I closure area in the 2003 Preliminary Closure/Post-Closure Maintenance Plan Revision (Plan). After notification by Forward Landfill Inc., the RWQCB inspected the site and subsequently issued a Notice of Violation. Storm events for the 2004/2005 season generated larger than normal amounts of rain throughout central California and certainly upstream of the Forward Landfill. The RWQCB's inspection of the Forward Landfill 411 conducted on February 25, 2005, observed the following conditions at the Forward Landfill: ■ RWQCB staff followed up on a February 24, 2005 report from San Joaquin County LEA and Forward Landfill Inc. that leachate was seeping from the north side slope at the Austin Road unit and collecting in a ditch located at the toe of the slope. Multiple leachate seeps have developed along a line approximately 15 feet above ground surface on the west half of the north side -slope of the Austin Road unit. Minor quantities of leachate ran across portions of the north perimeter road and were collected in a storm -water ditch north of the perimeter road. The ditch is blocked at both ends and there is no evidence that leachate drained to the storm water collection system or to surface water. When discovered, Forward Landfill Inc. personnel pumped the leachate out for discharge to the leachate collection impoundment. On the northwest side of the Austin Road Unit, high water in adjacent Little Johns Creek overflowed its bank and, for a time, surface water was in contact with the foot of the landfill to a height of three feet. Water levels Forward Landfill PFCPCMP 1-1 Z:\PROJECTS\Allied Waste\Forward\Reference Files Prior JTD\June 05 Stage IA Partial FCPCMP\FL-sec1.doc: