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Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page III-1 Forward Inc.Landfill 2018 Expansion Project III. PROTECT DESCRIPTION A. BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION The existing Forward, Inc. Landfill(Forward Landfill) is an approximately 567-acre,privately owned,waste disposal and Resource Recovery Facility (RRF). The RRF consists of a transfer station,materials recovery facility (MRF), and composting facility.The landfill owner and operator, Forward, Inc. (Forward), also owns an adjacent 184-acre parcel, known as the "Brocchini" parcel,which is within the overall facility boundary but not permitted for solid waste handling activities. Therefore,the total acreage owned by Forward, Inc is 751 acres. The Forward Landfill is located seven miles southeast of the City of Stockton in San Joaquin County, California (see Figures III.0-1, III.0-2, and III.0-3). The landfill is not open to the general public and is a Class II facility. Class II facilities are designed and constructed to accept both MSW and designated wastes (such as contaminated soils or treated wood wastes). All customers are pre- screened and deliveries must be scheduled in advance. The Forward Landfill is the only Class II landfill in San Joaquin County. The approximately 567-acre permitted Forward Landfill is a combination of the City of Stockton's former 410-acre Austin Road Sanitary Landfill (now the northern portion of the Forward Landfill) and the 157-acre original Forward Landfill(now the southern portion of the Forward Landfill).The original Forward Landfill was permitted in 1973 and converted to a Class II landfill in 1993. (For clarity,this part of the landfill is referred to as the "Original Forward Landfill" in this document). The Austin Road Sanitary Landfill began operations in the 1950s as an unlined Class III landfill and was sold by the City of Stockton to Forward. As part of the purchase agreement with the City of Stockton, the former Austin Road Landfill was transferred from City to County jurisdiction and Forward agreed to remediate the contaminated groundwater from the unlined portion of that landfill and continue the groundwater corrective action program in accordance with the requirements of the Regional Water Quality Control ' Board (RWQCB). The consolidation of the two landfills into an approximately 567-acre facility occurred in April 2003 via County approval of Use Permit Application UP-00-0007. The current Forward Landfill site includes a Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) on the southeast portion of the site,which incorporates the transfer station and materials recovery facility (MRF). The RRF is operated by Forward under a separate Solid Waste Facilities Permit(SWFP).The Forward RRF includes a composting facility that is able to compost green waste, food waste, and other items included in its SWFP. In addition to composting, recycling activities at the transfer station/MRF include processing wood waste for diversion. At the time this SEIR was prepared, salvaging,volume reduction, and recycling activities were not conducted at the RRF, which was being used to only transfer source-separated recyclables, and for composting and other greenwaste-related operations. A landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE)plant, operated by Ameresco, is located in the northeast portion of the landfill site.The LFGTE converts landfill gas, a waste byproduct of landfill operations that would otherwise be flared to the atmosphere,into electrical energy. The LFGTE ' produces approximately 4.2 MW of energy, enough to power approximately 6,000 to 8,000 single family homes.