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CENTRAL V ' _Y REGIONAL WATER QUALITY COVPL BOARD <br /> INSPECTION REPQRT <br /> DISCHARGER : Forward Inc. Landfill <br /> LOCATION & COUNTY: 9999 Austin Road, San Joaquin County <br /> CONTACT( S ) : Greg Basso and Rick Vidas <br /> INSPECTION DATE : 3 and 19 October 1988 <br /> INSPECTED e Y : Steve Rosenbaum <br /> ACCOMPANIED BY : Rick Vidas, Forward Inc. and Tom Woodward, E A Associates <br /> (3 Oct. only) <br /> Forward is in the process of installing new monitoring wells, MW-2a andMW-5a. <br /> Construction of these wells is similar to the previous monitoring wells with PVC blank <br /> casing and wire wrapped stainless steel screens. The filter pack for the new wells consists <br /> of#f30 mesh Monterey sand rather than the engineered filter material used in the previous <br /> wells. During the 3 October 1988 inspectionMW-2a was installed along Austin Road near <br /> the landfill entrance gate. This well was installed to replace well W-2 which produced <br /> turbid water samples and was not in an optimum monitoring location with respect to WMU <br /> A. The new well, MW-2a, is about 400 feet north of MW-2 and more nearly downgraient <br /> from WMU A. WellMW-2a was screened in a sandy layer at a depth of approximately 80 <br /> feet. <br /> Excavation for the expansion of WMU D was in progress at the time of both inspections. <br /> The expansion area is between the existing WMU D and WMU E (ash pit) and extends <br /> from Little Johns Creek in the south to just beyond the northern limit of WMU D. Forward <br /> intends to construct a four foot thick soil liner in this expansion area. Klei fel er <br /> Associates of Stockton was retained by Forward to perform compaction and moisture tests <br /> on the soil liner. <br /> Apparently no design, construction, or construction quality assurance plans were prepared <br /> prior to construction of the pit. This expansion is regulated under the current waste <br /> discharge requirements Order No. 88-023 for the facility. However, Forward failed to <br /> provide design information for the WMU expansion to the Board prior to construction. <br /> This isa.violation of Discharge Srecification B. 26 which states "Any landfill trench or pit <br /> in WMUs "D", "E", or "W' shall be designed and constructed in accordance with <br /> Subchapter 15 and approved by the Board prior to construction and again prior to <br /> operation." <br /> Inspection of WMU A(inactive RCRA unit) and WMU G (land treatment unit) indicated <br /> that vadose zone monitoring equipment has not been installed. This is a violation of <br /> Monitoring and Reporting Program No. 88-023 which requires vadose zone monitoring <br /> under WMUs A and G. <br /> My review of the WDRs and Board files indicates that Forward. has failed to submit a <br /> complete monitoring report since Order No. 88-023 was adopted in January 1988. Ground <br /> water monitoring data has been submitted and Forward continues to improve its ground <br /> water monitoring capability. However, other requirements of ilie monitoring program <br /> including designated and nonhazardous solid uynste monitoring, coal and wood ash <br /> monitoring and contaminated soils monitoring has not been submicl-ed to the Board. This is <br />