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San Joaquin Local Health District January 19, 1973 A minute amount of trash (old tires, etc., about 100 pounds in all) has in some, manner gotten into southeast corner of the pit. This is a most infrequent occurrence as the motor route to reach this area is exceedingly tortuous, consisting of driving through abandoned brick dump to the south, then along a dirt track alongside railroad, now three feet deep in water, then up muddy bank of the pit to a perilous stance on the edge, thence over the side. We will put up strongly worded "No Dumping" signs there, but over past fifteen years have only seen debris in the corner once every three or four years. Our hope is that as to this ten -acre pit, three-fourths filled over fifteen years without the slightest problem_)will be allowed to proceed to cos without engulfment in the maze of bureaucratic red tape. 2. Two acres of the pit extends northward along west edge of railroad tracks. This area is 600 feet from any street, residence or any view of the public or interference in any way with any person. This separate section of the pit was being slowly filled with defective brick chunks until in 1972, Cal -Clay granted to Learner Company, the following right: "California Clay Products hereby grants the exclusive right and privilege for the term herein defined, to Learner Company, Inc., to deposit dirt, dirt -like materials, inert materials, and dry rubbish which will not rot, smell, or be likely to cause substantial later subsidence of the surface of the completed fill in said northern 250 feet of said Northeast Extension owned by California Clay Productslocated between the railroad tracks and the eastern buildings of the existing plant of California Clay Products. The exact location of the Northeast Extension and its exterior limits have been agreed upon between the parties. No substantial quantities of other materials of any type shall be deposited, and particularly no tree limbs, no garbage, no substantial quantitiesgf wood, no solid metal in excess of six inch cubes (and such c,es if existent to be widely separated in the dumping), or any materials which will cause a present nuisance or create areas of substantial subsidence of surface, after completion of fill, from underlying rotting or future compression." Our experience has been that this deposit (about 300 tons a month) is of completely inert materials which have rested quietly in the bottom of the pit, without smell, or dust.