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FORWARD LANDFILL CANNERY MUD OPERATION PLAN Cannery muds are derived from the removal of dirt from produce in preparation for canning. The produce comes into the cannery with dirt from the field or orchards where it is grown. The dirt must be removed prior to canning by washing with water. Mud is the portion of the resulting material that settles out of the rinsate water and is collected and transported in roll-off containers rather than the tanker trucks used for the rinsate water. The solids or mud contain approximately 40 to 50 percent solids when delivered to the site. The cannery mud is unloaded from the roll-off containers on an approximately 2.5 to 3 foot thick clay-lined pad that has been constructed above the Class II WMUs FU-04 and FU-05. The approximately 5 acre mud drying pad is roughly divided into three sections which are worked systematically to allow sufficient area for rapid drying. The pad is bermed and is constructed with clays from the same on-site source as used to obtain clay liner material for the base liner of the Class II WMUs. The clay-lined pad prevents percolation of water into the underlying waste mass. Forward has two equipment operators assigned to the cannery mud drying operation. Cannery mud is off-loaded from the roll-off containers and immediately spread to a thickness of approximately 2 to 3-inches with a tractor and box scraper, making sure there is no moisture accumulation on the clay pad. The mud is initially allowed to air dry for approximately 4 to 5 hours. A disc is then used to turn the muds and allow further air drying. The following day, the muds are checked to assess if the material is dry. If the muds are not sufficiently dry, they are again turned with a disc and allowed to air dry. The cannery mud typically dries within 24 to 48 hours. Once the cannery mud is suitably dry, it is pushed into a stockpile using a bulldozer, loaded into a dump truck with a front- wheel loader, and transported to the active face. This operation has not been a source of flies or odors due to the rapid drying of muds and the minimal amount of organic material that is in the cannery mud. Operators have been trained to differentiate between mud loads and residual material loads to prevent the mingling of residual material with mud loads. A minor percentage of residual materials (whole fruits and vines, pomace, culls, leaves, peels, and seeds) are occasionally found in the cannery mud. These residual materials are loaded onto a dump truck and moved to Forward Resource Recovery Facility for composting.