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County of Riverside <br /> <br /> 2 <br />The project proposes to install approximately 31,872 REC 300 Watt modules or equivalent. In <br />addition, there would be four (4) 2 MW AC Stations located near the vicinity of the arrays. The <br />AC stations would consist of four (4) Advanced Energy 2 MW Power Stations with 2-1 MW <br />inverters and transformers located on concrete foundations. There would be eighty (80) 20 <br />circuit combiner boxes located within the arrays supported by the racking systems or <br />independently held on individual ballasted structures. See the E500 Series Drawings in <br />Appendix C, page 302 of this PDF. The system would tie into an existing Southern California <br />Edison (SCE) substation located in close proximity and adjacent to the project site. The point of <br />connection would occur at the Limonite 33 kilovolt (kv) line associated with the SCE Vista <br />substation. <br />Location <br />The West Riverside Landfill (Landfill) is located in Riverside County. The Landfill is located <br />adjacent to the west levee of the Santa Ana River, along the north side of State Highway 60 in <br />the southeast quarter of Section 10, Township 2S, Range 5W, San Bernardino Base and <br />Meridian. It is bound by Hall Avenue and homes on the west, and by 28th Street and a <br />recreational go-cart track on the north. The entrance to the site is at 2700 Hall Avenue. The site <br />location is shown on Figure 1. A map showing the current land use within 1,000 feet of the site <br />boundaries is provided as Figure 2. <br />CEQA <br />An Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND), dated April 2014, for the West <br />Riverside Solar Project has been prepared to address the environmental concerns associated with <br />the proposed change in land use at West Riverside Landfill. Certification of the IS/MND is <br />required for this project to be implemented. <br />3 EXISTING FACILITIES <br />Landfill and Final Cover <br />The landfill has been maintained as an open space since its closure in 1983. The 74-acre site has <br />a final closure cover that meeting the prescriptive requirements of California Code of <br />Regulations (CCR) Title 23, Chapter 15 and Title 14, Chapter 3. The cover consists of the <br />following layers. <br /> 2-foot foundation layer <br /> 1-foot low permeability soil layer (less than 1 X 10-6 cm/sec) <br /> 2-foot vegetation layer <br /> <br />The total thickness of the cover is 5 feet. The final grades at closure are shown on Figure 5. <br />The current topographic map is presented as Figure 3. A comparison of the grades between <br />closure and current grades indicates an average settlement of the cover of approximately 4 feet. <br />The landfill is maintained under the regulatory agency approved Closure and Post-Closure <br />Maintenance Plan prepared by The Earth Technology Corporation on July 26, 1991, revised