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Draft Environmental g Imp P act Report Page III-1 Forward Inc. Landfill Expansion III.PROTECT DESCRIPTION k A. BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION El The existing Forward, Inc. Landfill, is an approximately 567-acre, privately owned, Class II waste disposal and transfer station/materials recovery facility (MRF) located seven miles southeast of the City of Stockton in San Joaquin County, California. The landfill is owned and operated by Forward, Inc., and is not open to the public. The currently existing Forward Landfill was created by combining two adjacent landfills: the former City of Stockton's 410-acre Austin Road Sanitary Landfill (now the northern portion of the current Forward Landfill) and the 157-acre "Forward Landfill" (now the southern portion of the current Forward Landfill) that f was originally permitted in 1973 and converted to a Class II landfill in 1993. (Where needed for clarity,this smaller former"Forward Landfill" is referred to as the Original Forward Landfill in this document.) In 2000, the Austin Road Sanitary Landfill was sold by the City of Stockton to Forward, Inc., and transferred from City to County jurisdiction. In Yg April 2003, the Count ranted a Use Permit to Forward, Inc. to combine the former Austin P Road Sanitary Landfill and the Original Forward Landfill into a single Forward, Inc. landfill. This landfill consolidation project entailed the following substantial modifications to previous . .' landfill characteristics and procedures: • Placement of refuse fill in the 7.5-acre wedge between the existing landfills and increase in permitted height of existing Austin Road Sanitary Landfill • Allowing lower base grades in future Waste Management Units • Conversion of the Austin Road Sanitary Landfill portion of the facility from a Class FIII to a Class II landfill, accepting designated wastes • Expanded hours of operation The current Forward Landfill site includes a materials recovery facility on the southeast portion of E. the site which is operated by Forward,Inc.under a separate permit. Additionally, a landfill gas- to-energy plant is operated in the northwest portion of the site by Covanta and currently Ft permitted to operate by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District until April 30, 2013. Under current permits, the existing Forward, Inc. Landfill has capacity to operate until approximately 2017 at projected average fill rates. F The project analyzed in this EIR is an expansion of the existing 567-acre Forward Landfill. The proposed project would make the following changes: • Expand the Forward Landfill to a 185-acre parcel to the southwest of the existing landfill site,approximately l��1 a res in the southeast of the existing landfill, and approximately 10 racres-in thenortheagt of�the existing landfill F', Increase landfill capacity from 25.1 million cubic yards to 68.5 million cubic yards • Relocate 3,200 feet of the South Branch of the South Fork of Littlejohn Creek(which Fcurrently traverses the landfill)to the southeastern boundaries of the site • increase the permitted number of daily vehicles from 620 to 960 FConduct solidification of high moisture content wastes (by mixing dry wastes with high moisture content waste);up to 40;00 gallons per day of high moisture content wastes would be accepted F! F."