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The wood waste processing operation consists of chipping incoming wood, lumber, and bulk yard wastes as an alternative fuel source for cogeneration energy facilities and other reuses or recovery such as mulch or compost. Sorting bins and wood waste stockpiles are located near the 12,000-square-foot RRF building. The area of the RRF separation area is not exact because it expands and contracts depending upon the amount of materials sorted and stored, and the resale market. The storage and support areas include an entrance facilities area, an equipment and bin storage area, and an equipment storage yard. The approximately 0.83-acre entrance facili- ties area is in the northeastern comer of the site and includes an office trailer, portable sanitary facilities, a landscaped area, a parking area, and a water well. The equipment, maintenance area and storage yard are located in WMU G-North (Future D) and include equipment maintenance buildings, a storage area for refuse bins, and parking areas for heavy equipment and cars. All current structures comply with the Uniform Building Code (UBC). The equipment storage yard is fenced and secured to protect landfill equipment. All access to the site is from Austin Road, which runs along the eastern site boundary. The primary entrance is at the entrance facilities area in the northeast comer of the site. A second access road is located approximately 50 feet north of the South Fork. A third access road is located at the TS/RR entrance. An intermittent creek, the South Fork, crosses the site in a southwesterly direction. The creek is a tributary to South Littlejohns Creek, itself a tributary to French Camp Slough, which ultimately discharges into the San Joaquin River. Surface water runoff from the North Area that has not contacted any waste, or has contacted waste and meets the water quality criteria for stormwater discharges, is collected in onsite stormwater drainage basins from which it is discharged to the.South Fork. All runoff from the North Area that has contacted waste is collected and pumped into the 1.46-acre leachate evaporation pond located in Interim WMU F (see Figure 1.2). The entire RRF and separation area is bermed for screening purposes and to segregate non contact stormwater from the RRF operations. Currently, potentially contaminated runoff from the South Area is pumped either to the leachate evaporation pond or the sedimentation basin in the North Area. Forward is proposing to develop a composting facility in the South Area for the nonrecycl- able organic wastes received at the RRF. Material received at the RRF for composting may include green waste, mixed paper, municipal solid waste (MSW), and food and agri- cultural waste. The composting facility may also be operated as a co-composting facility by the addition of sewage sludge to the material during the composting process. The end product of the composting process may be used as a topsoil amendment, mulch, or a soil conditioner for various applications. The composted material may also be used in the landfill as an alternative daily cover material. w&10029B63.wp5/2 9/n/9a 2