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North County RC&SL Page 49 of 64 Public Works/Solid Waste Joint Technical Document County of San Joaquin – Revised July 14, 2025 Signs in the Recycling Center inform the visitors of the maximum speed, location of recycled materials, and other facility requirements. Selected recyclable materials are manually sorted from the material deposited on the Tipping/Sorting Floor. Personnel performing this separation may include County staff, Alternate Work Program Participants from the Sheriff’s Department, and inmates from the Sheriff’s Department. Total operating area for the Recycling Center (including areas outside the Recycling Center for materials storage) is approximately 5.7 acres. Space is available on the tipping floor for recycling equipment to be installed in the future, if needed to meet requirements mandated by the California Integrated Waste Management Act. However, mechanical recycling equipment is not installed at this time. Materials removed for recycling are placed in bins designated for each material, generally located adjacent to the northern “Z” wall (Plate 20 and 21). Material unsuited for recycling is deposited into a high-sided trailer and transported to the active face for disposal. 7.2.3 Peak Loading Peak loading conditions, when they occur, usually occur on Saturdays due to the large number of self-haul customers. Peak conditions are first noticed at the scale house as traffic accumulates due to the time required for processing. Peak loading accommodations include directing commercial vehicles out of cue to the west scales at the scale house, thus bypassing self-haul customers. Peak loading conditions can also occur in the Recycling Center itself, where the limited number of stalls restricts the number of customers that can deposit material each hour. Maximum customer processing rate (design capacity) through the Recycling Center is approximately one per minute, based on overload conditions (Saturday, May 6, 2007, Internal Traffic Capacity Evaluation, North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill, San Joaquin County Public Works Department, June 16, 2008).