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a "WASTE DISCHARGE RE` MENTS ORDER NO. 5-01-176 SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY -3- FOR POST-CLOSURE AND CORRECTIVE ACTION MONITORING CORRAL HOLLOW SANITARY LANDFILL SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ground surface (bgs),but groundwater has not been present within these three wells since 1990. 15. Monitoring data of the perched zone indicates shallow background groundwater quality has a specific electrical conductivity(EC) of approximately 1000 micromhos/cm, with total dissolved solids (TDS) of approximately 600 mg/l. Monitoring data of the deeper flow zone indicates background groundwater quality as measured at monitoring well MW-2 has a specific electrical conductivity(EC) of approximately 1,600 micromhos/cm,with total dissolved solids (TDS) of approximately 1,200 mg/l. 16. The direction of groundwater flow in the perched zone indicates that shallow groundwater mounds at SB-1 and flows both northerly and southerly. Occasionally, the direction of groundwater flow is northerly. The groundwater gradient is approximately 0.007 foot per foot. The groundwater velocity in the perched flow zone is approximately 2 feet per year. Groundwater in the deeper flow zone has been northeasterly in the past, though has not been monitored at the landfill since 1990. 17. The designated beneficial uses of the groundwater, as specified in the Basin Plan, are domestic and municipal, agricultural, and industrial supply. GROUNDWATER MONITORING 18. The groundwater monitoring system includes three wells screened in the shallow, perched aquifer on the eastern side of the landfill,wells SB-1,MW-5 and MW-4. Three wells are also screened below 250 feet b.-Ins,MW-1, MW-2, and MW-3, however groundwater has not been present in these wells since 1990. Attachment B shows the locations of the groundwater monitoring wells. 19. The Discharger's detection monitoring program for groundwater at this Unit does not satisfy the requirements contained in Title 27 §20415. Whereas the shallow groundwater monitoring on the northeastern side of the landfill does monitor the first encountered groundwater, the first groundwater beneath waste within the southwestern half of the waste management unit has no monitoring system currently in place. Wells that previously monitored deeper groundwater in compliance with Title 27 have been dry since 1990. Appropriate monitoring of groundwater beneath the southwestern half of the landfill should be implemented again. 20. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are often detected in a release from a landfill, and are the primary waste constituents detected in groundwater beneath a municipal solid waste landfill (see Finding Nos. 29 and 30). Since volatile organic compounds are not naturally occurring and thus have no background value, they are not amenable to the statistical analysis procedures contained in Title 27 for the determination of a release of wastes from a Unit.