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2-1 2.0 GENERAL 2.1 Background The Forward Landfill in San Joaquin County, California, is an existing solid waste disposal facility and also includes a transfer station/materials recovery facility (MRF) and composting facility, known herein as the Resource Recovery Facility (RRF). The landfill and RRF were permitted in 1973. The landfill and RRF are not open to the public. Both facilities are located on the same property but have separate SWFPs. The Forward Landfill is comprised of the former Forward Landfill and the former Austin Road Landfill. The former Austin Road Landfill was located directly north of the former Forward Landfill. The Austin Road Landfill was originally opened in 1954 and has operated continuously until the present, except for a temporary closure from 1961 to 1963 and from November 1999 to January 2001. The northern portion of the Forward Landfill encompasses the former Austin Road Landfill (123.9 acres), which began accepting municipal solid waste in 1954 and which does not contain a base liner or leachate collection and removal system (LCRS). The top of the former Austin Road Landfill has been graded to drain to the south, and a final cover was placed on a portion of the top and on the entire original northern slope. Additional information regarding the WMUs currently located within the former Austin Road Landfill is included in Section 4.1.1. The landfill has not been opened to the public since 1964. In September 2000, Forward Inc. purchased the Austin Road Landfill from the City of Stockton. In April 2001, the County of San Joaquin granted Use Permit UP -00-7 to Forward Inc. to combine the former Austin Road Landfill and the original Forward Landfill into a single disposal facility with a single set of permits (e.g., SWFP and WDR). 2.1.1 Facility Owner and Operator (27 CCR, Section 216OO(b)(1)(A)) The Forward Landfill is owned and operated by Forward Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Republic Services, Inc. The property is owned by Forward, Inc. 2.1.2 Operations Cycle (27 CCR, Section 21(b)(1)(A)) The daily operations cycle at Forward Landfill consists of waste acceptance and unloading (as regulated under a load checking program as discussed in Section 7.10); spreading and compaction of the refuse; and placement of daily cover or alternative daily cover (ADC). These procedures are discussed throughout this JTD. In addition, material handling activities are conducted as discussed in Section 6.4 of this JTD. 2.2 Phased Closure Forward Inc. has chosen to implement phased closure at the Forward Landfill. One of the benefits to this approach is that the landfill is capped as it is developed and reaches the permitted final grades, reducing and/or eliminating potential surface water infiltration while providing enhanced landfill gas and odor control, as well as protection of attendant groundwater. Furthermore, Forward Inc. is able to base their closure financial assurance on the maximum extent of uncapped refuse fill at the entire site. Forward Landfill SWT Engineering Joint Technical Document - April 2014; Amended June 2014 z:\projects\allied waste\forward\five year permit rvw 2013\itd-5 yr pr 2013\text\sec 2 final.doc