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B. ENGINEERING REPORT Current Operation 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. 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 also accepts agricultural and landscaping waste that is sorted and either sold for energy generation, animal feed, or composted on site. The compost is sold as a soil additive. The sorted material that is contaminated with non compostable material is moved by tractor or truck, into the transfer station or MRF area. 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. California Waste Removal Systems, Inc. accepts waste motor oil from the general public in volumes not to exceed 20 gallons and in containers of less than five gallons capacity. California Waste Removal Systems, Inc. holds federal E.P.A. No. CAD087208344. This conforms with Section 25250.11 of the State of California Health and Safety Code Sec. 25250. The newly instituted curbside recycling program collects recyclable items at the participant's home. The collection 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. The City of Lodi is within the San Joaquin Valley, which is bounded by the Sierra Nevada range on the east and the coastal mountain range on the west. The Carquinez Strait is a sea level gap in the coastal range; the strait is 55 miles west of the area, and the intervening terrain is flat. 89-18VIMasI/M 3 Jamlw 1992