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x <br /> t� <br /> a <br /> a ' <br /> antamination found <br /> �' <br /> at Corral Hollow landfill <br /> Tracy Press tougher rules for maintaining <br /> TRACY—The Central Valley <br /> the site.The board will host a <br /> j Regional Water Quality Control public hearing on the matter <br /> Board is taking an interest in Tune 14 in Sacramento. <br /> Horton said the contamina- <br /> Corral Hollow Sanitary Landfill tion comes from the methane <br /> " after tests detected groundwa- produced by decomposing <br /> ter contamination in a well on <br /> the site. garbage. The water comes <br /> The landfill, on the south from a shallow test well, no <br /> side of Corral Hollow Road at more than 50 feet deep,and he <br /> .' Interstate 580, served .as the noted that other test wells on <br /> .. city's garbage-disposal site the landfill are dry. <br /> until 1995. Until the 1970s, He added that the extent of <br /> % trash was burned there. Then groundwater contamination is <br /> " for more than 20 years the city's limited to a shallow water table <br /> trash was buried on the west- sealed off by naturally occur- <br /> err portion of the 45-acre site. ring clay. The deep aquifers, <br /> tk County solid-waste manager about 400 feet below the sur- <br /> Tom Horton figures about face,are not affected. <br /> 1.9 million cubic yards of trash The public is welcome to <br /> t are buried there,and last year the comment on the matter by <br /> ^ .a county started noticing excessive contacting the Regional Water <br /> amounts of methane seeping Quality Control Board at (916) <br /> from test wells on the site. 255-3137.lrifortnation is also <br /> Now the Regional Water available on the Internet at <br /> u Quality Control Board has www.swrcb.ca.gov/ <br /> detected volatile organic conu- -rwgcb5/ The deadline for <br /> 1 pounds in water from one of comments is Priday. <br /> 3,x the test wells and is proposing <br /> � 4 <br />