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1.0 INTRODUCTION <br /> 1.1 PURPOSE <br /> This Partial Final Closure/Post-Closure Maintenance Plan (PFCPCMP) for <br /> the Forward Landfill has been prepared to implement closure of the Stage IA <br /> closure area. Liquid seeps were observed which occurred during the 2004/05 <br /> winter season and reported by Forward Landfill Inc. (the permitted owner and <br /> operator/discharger) to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control <br /> Board (RWQCB). The seeps were observed in the area highlighted as the <br /> Stage I closure area in the 2003 Preliminary Closure/Post-Closure <br /> Maintenance Plan Revision (Plan). After notification by Forward Landfill Inc., <br /> the RWQCB inspected the site and subsequently issued a Notice of Violation. <br /> Storm events for the 2004/2005 season generated larger than normal <br /> amounts of rain throughout central California and certainly upstream of the <br /> Forward Landfill. The RWQCB's inspection of the Forward Landfill <br /> conducted on February 25, 2005, observed the following conditions at the <br /> Forward Landfill: <br /> ■ RWQCB staff followed up on a February 24, 2005 report from San <br /> Joaquin County LEA and Forward Landfill Inc. that leachate was seeping <br /> from the north side slope at the Austin Road unit and collecting in a ditch <br /> located at the toe of the slope. Multiple leachate seeps have developed <br /> along a line approximately 15 feet above ground surface on the west half <br /> of the north side-slope of the Austin Road unit. Minor quantities of <br /> leachate ran across portions of the north perimeter road and were <br /> collected in a storm-water ditch north of the perimeter road. The ditch is <br /> blocked at both ends and there is no evidence that leachate drained to the <br /> storm water collection system or to surface water. When discovered, <br /> Forward Landfill Inc. personnel pumped the leachate out for discharge to <br /> the leachate collection impoundment. <br /> On the northwest side of the Austin Road Unit, high water in adjacent <br /> Little Johns Creek overflowed its bank and, for a time, surface water was <br /> in contact with the foot of the landfill to a height of three feet. Water levels <br /> Forward Landfill PFCPCMP 1-1 <br /> Z:\PROJECTSWIIied Waste\Forward\Reference Files Prior JTDUune 05 Stage IA Partial FCPCMP\FL-sec1.doc: <br />