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IV. IMPACT OVERVIEW A. CUMULATIVE IMPACTS CEQA requires consideration in an EIR of potential environmental impacts which are individually limited but cumulatively considerable. The cumulative impacts analyses in this document are made on the basis of list-based past,present and reasonably anticipated future projects. On occasion(for example,in the Transportation analysis),other projected growth rates are used to encompass both specific development projects and other regional growth. The only proposed project in the area is the Forward,Inc.Landfill Use Permit Modification,as described in Chapter I,Introduction. San Joaquin County has indicated that no other projects of any kind are planned within the project vicinity(Martin, 1993). The cumulative effects of the project together with other reasonably foreseeable development has been considered in each of the various analyses of Chapter III. Please see these analyses for detail concerning the potential for impacts in each topic area. In summary,the following significant cumulative impacts were identified: • the proposed project would contribute cumulatively to the significant disruption of the ■ physical arrangement of the surrounding community; • cumulative air pollutant emissions that would contribute significantly to air pollutant emissions,dust, and odor problems; • project-related noise would contribute to a cumulative increase in ambient noise levels; • potential seepage of leachate from the landfill expansion and Forward,Inc.Landfill to cumulatively affect water quality if not properly mitigated;and • the project,by incrementally adding to local landfill gas generation(Austin Road and Forward,Inc.Landfill),would have a cumulative public health impact. After mitigation,the remaining unavoidable significant cumulative impact includes: • the proposed project would contribute cumulatively to the significant disruption of the physicalarrangement of the surrounding community. IV.1