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The Draft EIR estimated an additional 125 vehicles at the LMRF&TS per day for 1995,and projected that the LMRF&TS would be generating 450 additional vehicles per day (*1993 RSDI Section 5-6), for a total of 1,280 vehicles per day in 2010. At the same time, the facility was designed to accommodate a 76% increase in refuse handled at the site by 2010. 2.3.4 TRAFFIC AND ESTIMATED DAILY TRIP TRAFFIC INCREASE Based on San Joaquin County's 2004 records of site traffic, approximately 6% of all trips generated by the LMRF&TS are commercial, or "franchise" refuse trucks (garbage and roll-off bin trucks), 3% are County transfer trucks (truck and trailer), and 90% are general public self-haul traffic (autos/vans/pick-ups/trailers). Since construction in 1994, peak trip and average trip counts at the LMRF&TS have climbed unrelentingly (Chart 1). Data measuring actual Daily Vehicle Trips for 2000 (784 trips) through 2004 (1080) showed an overall increase of 37%, an average 9% annual increase. A conservative estimate based on current actual daily vehicle trips indicate that, without operational/facility modifications, the LMRF&TS will reach a theoretical Daily Total Vehicle Trip Maximum Count (as defined in the 1993 RDSI) of 1,280 Vehicle Trips per day by the year 2010 (Chart I). Data measuring actual average Vehicle Trips from 2000 through 2004 (457 to 635) also reveals an overall increase of 37%, an average 9% annual increase, supporting the County's contention of the need to immediately increase LMRF&TS's permitted daily vehicle trips to 1,280 and to revise the Daily Total Vehicle Trips estimated by 2010 to 1,280 Daily Vehicle Trips. 2.3.5 ESTIMATED DAILY TONNAGE INCREASES Since 1994, Average Tons per Day (ATD) at the LMRF&TS increased very slightly (Chart II). ATD see-sawed, from 448.3 in 2000 to a high of 564.8 tpd in 2003, to 472.4 in 2004 but the overall percent increase was only 1.5% annually. Given the small increases in tonnage, annual increases of 1.5% in ADT can be expected to continue at LMRF&TS over the next 10 years, as indicated by the dotted line on Chart H. Peak tonnages at the LMRF&TS reached an unusual high of 905.9 in 2002 due to an unusual influx of one-time large quantities of waste being brought in after Thanksgiving by an individual collector. Quantities have remained steady even since, indicating an inherent self-regulating element in commercial business coming to the LMRF&TS. 2.4 WASTE TYPE AND VOLUME The LMRF&TS receives non-hazardous mixed municipal solid wastes from residential (self-haul), commercial and industrial sources. Lovelace MRF and Transfer Station Department of Public Works/Solid Waste Division Transfer Processing Report 12 County of San Joaquin-Revised 7/26/05