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04 January 2013 AGE -NC Project No. 12-2179 Page 6 of 7 At the end of construction, the site will be graded for proper drainage and seeded with native grasses (if required). The permit will require the submittal of a thorough Capping Results Report to document the final volumes of soil cover, once the work has been completed. The final cover design should reduce the existing slopes to low slopes around the entire cover area (plus 1 -foot cover system thickness over entire landfill area). Soil loss or erosion, which is anticipated to be that which normally occurs on fallow land, or the soil loss for the final landfill cover system, will be below the maximum annual allowable soil loss (2.0 tons per acre) in accordance with current EPA guidance documents. Although the average soil loss over the entire slope may be less than the maximum allowable, the largest contribution to any soil loss will come from side slope areas. It is expected that the period of greatest concern for soil erosion would be immediately after topsoil placement and before the vegetation takes hold. Therefore, seeding will occur if native plants do not hold soil by the spring season in order to prevent erosion during this interim period. As the cover material should be native, a layer of topsoil will not be placed over the general fill layer. Native soil should support vegetative growth over the entire landfill cover system. Manual seeding methods such as drill seeding will be used to ensure good soil contact, which is crimped into the soil (instead of hydroseeding or hydromulching). 7.0 STORMWATER MANAGEMENT The proposed cover system design for the former landfill area will result in the overall height of the landfill being only 2-3 feet above the surrounding topography. The footprint of the covered land fill will be approximately 4 acres, the current side toes of land filled area is being pulled back inward around much of the landfill to accommodate a perimeter berm. As a result of the new and required cover areas, there will be additional surface water runoff, that should be anticipated from the completed landfill cover. In order to manage the stormwater runoff from the landfill cover, the design incorporates a shallow (12 inches in Advanced GeoEnvironmental, Inc.