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PROJECT DESCRIPTION BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR THE PROJECT The applicant, California Waste Removal Systems Inc. (CWRS)currently operates a solid waste transfer station and resource recovery facility on 12.16 acres of land at 1333 East Turner Road, Lodi, CA. (Figures 1 thru 3). This facility serves the City of Lodi, northern San Joaquin County, and southern Sacramento County. It is open to both commercial and public vehicles. The transfer station serves as the hub of CWRS's collection operation. Company trucks pick up refuse from their regular routes in Lodi and the surrounding areas of San Joaquin and Sacramento Counties. The trucks deposit the refuse at the transfer station where the resource recovery operation begins. The refuse is sorted by content and materials that include cardboard, newspaper, plastic, cans, metal, wood, rock and rubble, brush and garden waste which is hand sorted for recycling. The remaining waste is loaded into 100-cubic-yard transfer trailers and hauled to either the San Joaquin County Landfill on Harney Lane or the Sacramento County Landfill on Kiefer Road, depending on the source jurisdiction of the waste. Both landfills will accommodate incoming refuse on an as-needed basis 24 hours per day. The recovered materials are collected and shipped to markets on a regular basis. Figure 2 shows the location of the facility and the landfills that receive the waste. The facility accepts also agricultural and landscaping waste that is sorted and either sold P g for energy generation, animal feed, or composted on site. The compost is sold as a soil additive. In addition to the refuse collected by the company, the facility also accepts refuse from the public that is brought by private vehicles. This refuse goes through the same process. CWRS also operates a public recycling program. A buy back program is operated at the facility where the public brings cans, bottles, paper, plastic and other recyclable materials and is paid in cash. The newly instituted curbside recycling program collects recyclable items at the participant's home. The collection company provides color coded containers that are placed at the curb and picked up weekly. This material is then brought to the station for processing. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this material are donated to the local schools. Currently, the station receives approximately 450 tons per day with daily peak loadings of up to 650 tons per day. This material is dumped and sorted in the 15,000-square-foot tipping floor building. Figures 4 and 4A show the tipping floor building and the existing site plan for the facility. The current facility allows California Waste to sort and recover up to approximately 20% of the volume as recyclable material. 2