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STATE OF CALIFORNIA—HEALTH AND WELFARE AGENCY GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN, Govemor <br />DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES <br />TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL DIVISION <br />NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SECTION <br />4250 POWER INN ROAD <br />SACRAMENTO, CA 95826 <br />(916) 739-3145 <br />FACT SHEET <br />Proposed Modification of a Closure Plan for a <br />Hazardous Waste Disposal Facility <br />Forward, Inc. Landfill <br />Austin Road <br />San Joaquin County <br />Stockton, California <br />EPA I.D. #990794133 <br />Introduction <br />The California Department of Health Services (DHS), Toxic <br />Substances Control Division, and the Region 9 Office of the <br />Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) request public comments <br />regarding modifications to the State (DHS) and Federal (EPA) <br />Closure Plan concerning the Class II -I (hazardous waste <br />landfill) unit at the Forward, Inc. facility. Modifications <br />will improve surface water drainage and groundwater monitoring <br />for the site. <br />Background <br />Forward Landfill is located on 157 acres in eastern San <br />Joaquin County, approximately three miles east of Stockton. <br />The facility is on the west side of Austin Road, two miles <br />south of Arch Road and three miles north of Lathrop Road <br />(Figure 1) . Three maps of the facility are included: 1) <br />location map, 2) site features map, and 3) a site plan map. <br />Forward, Inc. began operating a Class II -I waste disposal <br />facility and recycling center under a San Joaquin County <br />Conditional Use Permit (U-73-9) issued February 15, 1973. The <br />Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB) issued Waste <br />Discharge Requirements (WDRs), Order No. 73-183, for the <br />facility on March 23, 1973. DHS issued a State Hazardous <br />Waste Facility Permit No. 39-0001-78 on August 31, 1979. New <br />WDRs, Order 88-023, were issued in 1988. <br />When Forward, Inc. received the Hazardous "Facility Permit, <br />wastewas being disposed into three trenches within the <br />present waste management unit (WMU)-A. Most of this waste was <br />barium -strontium sludge (non -radioactive) from mining <br />