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Sats Jo• q in County supervisors to seti6jandfill debate - Lodinews.com: News Page 2 of 2 <br />"Landfills are incompatible uses for airports and the already close proximity of the Forward Landfill to the <br />airport makes an expansion even more hazardous," he wrote. <br />Blodgett said it's not just the airport that would suffer if the landfill expanded. <br />"Where should our landfills be?" Blodgett said. "Our landfills shouldn't be near airports, and they shouldn't <br />be on prime farmland." <br />He said neighboring farmers already deal with trash finding its way onto their land, which can carry <br />salmonella, E. coli, and other diseases. <br />Blodgett adds that 72 percent of Forward Landfill's trash comes from outside San Joaquin County. <br />Blodgett also fears that the landfill could contaminate the water supply. <br />Starting in the late `90s, the landfill contaminated the groundwater, forcing the city of Stockton to provide <br />residents living near the landfill with bottled water, according to Robert McClellan, spokesman for the San <br />Joaquin County Environmental Health Department. <br />Today, residents still use bottled water; however, that's merely a precaution, McClellan added. The landfill <br />reduced contaminants and the groundwater now meets state health requirements. <br />McClellan added that the expansion wouldn't increase the burden on Forward Landfill. <br />"The impacts that exist now would just be prolonged," he said. "There's no proposed increase in traffic. <br />There's no added waste volumes being proposed at this time. It would be the same operation as we see now. <br />It would just let them operate for more years." <br />The Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing starting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Board Chambers of <br />the San Joaquin County Administrative building, 44 N. San Joaquin St., Stockton. <br />Officials the Stockton Metropolitan Airport could not be reached on Monday. <br />Contact reporter Kristopher Anderson at krisa@lodinews.com. <br />http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_51d20b1b-b38c-52c1-84da-7e lbeeaa6810.html?mode=print 9/24/2013 <br />