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• Normal, annual increase in vehicular traffic on area roads, not related to the operation of the landfill, will aproximate three percent for these rural area roads; • 85 percent of the landfill related traffic will approach the proposed site from the west along Harney Lane; 15 percent of the traffic will approach the site from the east along Harney Lane, west of Clements Road. Based upon these assumptions the projected average and peak daily traffic, for all vehicle types, is shown in Table 10 With the opening of the Lodi transfer station ancitipated for the second quarter of 1981, the number of heavy trucks carrying garbage to the landfill will be reduced as transfer rigs are utilized instead. The figures in Table 10 represent a worst case scenario, and no allowance has been made for the reduction in traffic anticipated from the use of transfer rigs. From the figures in Table10 peak hour traffic can be estimated. Peak hour traffic estimates are used to determine the level of improvement needed to allow a particular road to safely accommodate the projected traffic load. Generally speaking, peak hour traffic is estimated as ten percent of the daily traffic; in this instance, peak hour traffic has been estimated on the basis of the ratio of peak hour traffic counts to peak daily traffic for 1980 (1977 in the case of Clements Road), maintaining this ratio as a control throughout the study period. TABLE 9 ESTIMATED PEAK HOUR TRAFFIC 1980 - 2000 ROAD 1980 1990 1995 2000 Highway 88 Eberhard Road 218 349 430 514 Tully Road 60 141 173 208 Landfill 68 109 134 160 Clements Road 15 24 30 35 The number of vehicles travelling through any of the above intersec- tions during peak hour is not sufficient to require improving the level of service, as defined by road capacity. However, road improvements will be