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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page III-19
<br /> Forward Inc.Landfill 2014 Expansion Project
<br /> Existing Resource Recovery Facilities and Activities
<br /> Salvaging, volume reduction, and recycling activities are conducted at the Forward Resource
<br /> Recovery Facility (FRRF)located in the portion of the existing Forward Landfill south of the
<br /> L South Fork of South Littlejohns Creek. The FRRF/composting facilities include an in-ground
<br /> scale, office trailer, and processing and composting pads.
<br /> The FRRF is operated under a Solid Waste Facilities Permit(SWFP) that was issued in 2004.This
<br /> permit is a separate permit from the Solid Waste Facility Permit for the remainder of the
<br /> Forward Landfill operations. However, the tonnage and vehicles limits in the SWFP for the
<br /> FRRF are included within the total tonnage and vehicle limits in the most recent SWFP for the
<br /> Forward Landfill that was issued in 2012. The Forward Landfill SWFP allows a maximum
<br /> inflow rate of 46,080 tons per week,not to exceed 8,668 tons per day,including some beneficial
<br /> reuse materials and materials delivered to the FRRF. Therefore,these daily and weekly tonnage
<br /> limits are the combined limit for the Forward Landfill and Forward Resource Recovery Facility.
<br /> The composting operations are operated under waste discharge requirements issued by the
<br /> RWQCB,in addition to the tonnage and vehicle limits set in the SWFP.
<br /> The FRRF accepts materials such as source separated construction and demolition debris,
<br /> consumer recyclables (such as plastic, cardboard, metal,wood, fabric, paper, and sheetrock),
<br /> and green waste, as specified in the SWFP and Report of Composting Site Information, and the
<br /> Waste Discharge Requirements(WDRs) and Joint Technical Document(JTD)for the landfill.
<br /> Feedstock is received from sources throughout San Joaquin, Sacramento and Stanislaus
<br /> Counties, including collection and transfer trucks, self-haulers, independent recycling haulers,
<br /> and tree trimming/landscaping firms.
<br /> The FRRF area is currently being used to transfer source-separated recyclables and for
<br /> composting and other green-waste-related operations. The materials recovered from the FRRF
<br /> include plastic, glass, cardboard, newspapers and paper, ferrous and nonferrous metals, wood,
<br /> and other nonhazardous, inert materials (such as foam).
<br /> The wood waste processing operation consists of chipping incoming wood, lumber, and bulk
<br /> yard wastes as an alternative fuel source for cogeneration energy facilities and other reuses or
<br /> recovery such as mulch or compost. Sorting bins and wood waste stockpiles are located near
<br /> aw the 12,000-square-foot FRRF building. The area of the FRRF separation area expands and
<br /> contracts depending upon the amount of materials sorted and stored, and the resale market.
<br /> Material received at the FRRF for composting may include green waste, mixed paper,
<br /> municipal solid waste (MSW), and food and agricultural waste. The end product of the
<br /> composting process may be used as a topsoil amendment, mulch, or a soil conditioner for
<br /> various applications. The composted material may also be used in the landfill as an
<br /> •- alternative daily cover material.
<br /> The maximum capacity of the Compost Facility depends on the composting technology
<br /> employed. Forward may operate with one or a combination of composting technologies,
<br /> including compost windrows turned by front end loaders, and windrow composting using
<br /> a windrow tuning machine.
<br /> Forward Landfill uses certain waste materials in its beneficial reuse program as described in the
<br /> JTD (BAS, amended 2011). Subject to approval and supervision of the San Joaquin County
<br /> Environmental Health Department(SJEHD),which acts as Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) for
<br /> �• the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery(CalRecycle), materials such as
<br /> preprocessed treated automobile shredder waste are substituted for"virgin" materials used as
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