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V. Alternatives to the Project Foothill Landfill is an 800-acre site,with 640 acres used for fill. The remaining site life of Foothill landfill is approximately 80 years(Horton, 1993). North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill (NCRCSL). NCRCSL,also a Class III landfill,is located in north San Joaquin County,off of Harney Lane, nine miles east of Lodi and 12 miles northeast of Stockton. A materials recovery facility is in operation at this location. NCRCSL,owned by the County,receives approximately 2,200 tons per week(San Joaquin County, 1986 and 1988). The NCRCSL is a 320-acre facility. The remaining site life is approximately 50 years(Horton, 1993). A likely additional component of the No-Project Alternative would be a transfer station where waste from collector trucks would be unloaded and transferred to larger vehicles for transport to more distant landfills. The City of Stockton could potentially use the existing Lovelace Transfer Station or build its own transfer station. The Lovelace Transfer Station is south of the Stockton Metropolitan Airport,approximately eight miles south of the City of Stockton. Building a transfer station and hauling the waste to Foothill Landfill is addressed in the County Solid Waste Management Plan(CoSWMP)(San Joaquin County, 1986). For the purposes of this analysis,it will be assumed that the City of Stockton would use the Lovelace Transfer Station and haul wastes by truck to the Foothill Landfill. If the waste designated for the Austin Road Landfill Expansion were to go to the Foothill Landfill,the site life of the Foothill Landfill would be reduced to 59 years. This would require San Joaquin County to either expand Foothill Landfill or site a replacement landfill sooner than currently planned. Land use,biology,geology, and hydrology impacts at the project site would be avoided;however these impacts would eventually be relocated to the Foothill Landfill if the site were expanded or to another location sited as the replacement landfill. There is the possibility for biological impacts to the potential vernal pools in the Foothill Landfill area(San Joaquin County, 1989). Use of Foothill Landfill would also require permit revisions to increase the amount of waste currently accepted at Foothill Landfill. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS Because no site development would occur under this alternative,implementation of this alternative would be similar to the setting for the project,as described in Chapter III. Many elements of the project setting, such as noise and traffic levels,are quantified in Chapter III,and compared to the project in that chapter. This discussion does not repeat those quantitative comparisons. V.3