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San Joaquin County Environmental Heath Department <br />State Focused Inspection Report <br />Forward Landfill <br />SWIS #39 -AA -0015 <br />2. Section 20690(b)(3) — Alternative Daily Cover (ADC) — Processed Green Material. This section states, in part, that . <br />processed green material means any plant material that is either separated at the point of generation, or separated at a <br />centralized facility that employs methods to minimize contamination. Green material includes, but is not limited to, yard <br />trimmings, untreated wood wastes, paper products, and natural fiber products. Green material does not include treated <br />wood waste, mixed demolition or mixed construction debris, manure and plant waste from the food processing industry, <br />alone or blended with soil. <br />As part of the focused inspection, CIWMB staff, the local enforcement agency staff and Forward Landfill representatives <br />observed operations at the green / food material handling area where a sorting process, (which was described in letters <br />dated April 30, 2004 and April 7, 2005 from Forward Incorporated), is used to prepare material for use as ADC. Site <br />operations personnel made no attempt to discover, separate, or remove the residentially -generated food waste that was <br />readily visible amongst the material (See Figure 1). This practice is inconsistent with the sorting process described in the <br />letters provided by Forward Incorporated. <br />Figure 1. Material containing residentially -generated food waste in a plastic bag. <br />It was observed that site personnel emptied plastic bags of food waste found in the material back into the material <br />and then removed only the plastic bag. Site personnel were effective at removing film plastics from the <br />commingled materials (See Figure 2). <br />Page 4 of 6 Inspector <br />so <br />• <br />