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Austin Road Landfill. The water supply standpipe is located adjacent to the <br /> Forward scalehouse. The water production well that supplies the standpipe is <br /> located near the main entrance facility for the existing Forward Landfill. The well <br /> has a production of approximately 1,500 gallons per minute (gpm). The other <br /> water supply well at the existing Forward Landfill is located south of the South <br /> Branch and has a capacity of 500 gpm. The water supply well at the existing <br /> Austin Road Landfill is located along the northern boundary of the existing <br /> landfill. This well was installed in 1972 and has a production of approximately <br /> 60 gpm. <br /> The maintenance and storage area is currently located in the northwest corner of <br /> the existing Forward Landfill. The area is secured, and fenced but also mobile <br /> and can be moved around the site, as needed. The maintenance area includes <br /> portable buildings, storage areas for refuse bins, and parking areas for heavy <br /> equipment and cars. A complete vehicle repair service facility with an extensive <br /> inventory of spare parts is also maintained. The maintenance and storage area is <br /> operated in accordance with the site's SWPPP. <br /> The transfer station/resource recovery building is located just west of the landfill <br /> entrance that is south of the South Branch. The building is a metal frame <br /> building that is open on one side. The total square footage of the building is <br /> approximately 12,000 square feet (so. <br /> Ogden Power Pacific, Inc. (Ogden) currently operates a methane gas recovery <br /> system at the Austin Road Landfill. The collected gas is used to power an <br /> electrical generation plant located at the northwest corner of the existing Austin <br /> Road Landfill. Ogden takes enough landfill gas so that the power plant produces <br /> up to 760 kilowatts per hour of electrical power; this energy is sold to Pacific <br /> Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) under a long-term agreement. <br /> The existing Austin Road Landfill is currently under a Corrective Action Plan <br /> (CAP) for groundwater contamination by volatile organic compounds (VOCs). <br /> To comply with the CAP, a groundwater extraction and treatment system has <br /> been installed to mitigate detected chlorinated hydrocarbon in the first <br /> encountered groundwater beneath the existing Austin Road Landfill. <br /> All site surface water that has not come in contact with waste is directed to the <br /> sedimentation ponds. Three sedimentation ponds are located on the site. Two <br /> Forward Landfill)TD 4-5 <br /> L:\Ailied\2000.193\ReportsVtd:Sec-4.0:05/24/02 BRYAN A.STIRRAT 6.ASSOCIATES <br />