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Response to Written Comments Page 3 of 4 07 June 2023 Forward Landfill, Inc. COMMENT NO. 3: As an analogy, if you have a leak in your 50 gallon bathtub upstairs and it is destroying the room below it, do you fix the leak or do you add another 50 gallons of water to it and increase the rate of water you are using to refill it? RESPONSE: As noted in the Response to Comment No.1, existing releases at the facility addressed by the CAO include releases from the historic Austin Road Unit. Any new waste management units permitted by the Central Valley Water Board or other discharges are subject to modern standards and regulations. COMMENT NO. 4: The poor to outright disastrous record for water and toxin discharge should be a massive warning sign to repeal this increase in processing at this facility. RESPONSE: New units permitted under the revised tentative WDRs are Class II units under Title 27 and therefore require full containment of wastes. COMMENT NO. 5: 1 am also concerned with these discharges into Littlejohns creek and the effect that will have on downstream water quality. RESPONSE: The revised WDRs do not permit any discharges to Littlejohns Creek. COMMENT NO. 62: Republic Services Forward facility have shown little regard to adhere to the clean-up and abatement orders issued to them by the RWQCB. This has resulted in numerous occurrences of leaks into our groundwater system that have made many wells of adjacent properties unusable. How many contaminated wells is too many? How many lives are you willing to put at risk? How much land are you willing to contaminate? The previous records of the violations, especially the ground water leaks are of particular concern found on GeoTracker. The increase in processing capabilities is just going to exacerbate an already horrible problem. RESPONSE: See response to Comment No. 1 and No. 4. Additionally, the CAO includes requirements to identify and sample all domestic and municipal wells that are located within the area bounded by Highway 99 to the west, South Jack Tone Road to the east, 2,500 feet north of Arch Road, and south to the South Fork of South Little John's Creek. To date no impacts due to releases from the landfill have been found from any of these wells. COMMENT NO. 7: Please consider the following comments/concerns: - Republic Services Forward Landfill has continued to not comply with specified cleanup and abatement ordered dates and the releases and emissions continue at a pace inconsistent with the objective to clean up and have zero emissions by 2023. RESPONSE: Central Valley Water Board staff continue to meet with the Discharger regularly, and the Discharger is providing weekly updates regarding the installation of the offsite Interim Remedial Action. Current estimates indicate that a groundwater extraction system will be operational by Summer 2023. One