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I <br />PUBOC HEALTH SEIVICES <br />SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY q ` <br />JOGI KHANNA M.D., M.P.H. <br />s'• <br />Health Officer <br />P.O. Box 2009 (1601 East Hazelton Avenue) Stockton, California 95201 <br />(209) 468-3400 <br />May 21, 1990 <br />TO: Chet Davison, Director <br />San Joaquin County Planning Department <br />FROM: Fred Kaufman, Program Managerq' - <br />Environmental Health Division <br />RE: Forward Landfill, Austin Road (UP -73-9) <br />The Environmental Health Division of San Joaquin County Public <br />Health Services is the enforcement agency for solid waste <br />facilities in San Joaquin County. Currently we are doing a five <br />year landfill operating permit review for the above referenced <br />facility as required by State law. <br />The facility was approved for operation by San Joaquin County Use <br />Permit 73-9 as a Class II -1 disposal site. No maximum tonnage was <br />stated in the Use Permit; however, the report prepared by EMCON <br />ASSOCIATES entitled "Geotechnical Investigation and Waste <br />Management Studies" for Forward, Inc., indicates a maximum <br />estimated refuse disposal rate of 500 tons per day (Page 21). One <br />of the conditions of the use permit was that the site be prepared <br />and operated in accordance with the recommendations presented in <br />the report. <br />The State classification of II -1 allowed non -hazardous solid waste <br />(II) to be deposited at the site and certain approved designated <br />wastes (-1) which are hazardous wastes that have received a <br />variance from the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control <br />Board because the hazardous levels are low. These wastes listed in <br />Waste Discharge Permit 89-148 are, asbestos, coal ash, shredder <br />waste, sewage and water treatment ludge, and contaminated soils. <br />The State classifications for landfills have now been changed and <br />a II -1 site is now considered II and III with the II wastes being <br />listed as III and the -1 listing being II. These are the concerns <br />we have: <br />1. Even though the EMCON report listed a maximum daily <br />tonnage of 500 tons, the current facility permit was <br />issued for 175 tons. We have reason to believe that the <br />applicant will ask for the maximum amount of 500 tons in <br />the new permit and it is very probable he may ask for as <br />much as 1000 tons per day. <br />A Division of San Joaquin County Health Care Services <br />