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Response to Written Comments Page 6 of 11 09 October 2023 Forward Landfill, Inc. a load-checking program which is comprised of: waste characterization and certification forms, load inspections, training of on-site personnel, and signage. Asbestos disposal manifests and operating recorded are maintained by Forward Landfill. The records include quantity and date of each individual shipment of ACM, disposal location at the landfill, a summary of incidents that required an established contingency plan to be used, inspection results and training records. COMMENT NO. 12: 12.) Comment #41 . TWW is going to be allowed into the Class 3 landfill? TWW is certainly toxic. TWW has been treated with potentially arsenic, chromium, copper, pentachlorophenol, and creosote. These are all highly toxic and you want to allow these into the class 3 landfill. Holy cow, have you no regard for human health at all. RESPONSE: Forward landfill has been authorized to accept treated wood waste (TWW) under Assembly Bill 332 (AB332) as set forth in Article 11.2 Section 25230 of the Health and Safety Code. Treated wood waste can only be disposed in composite-lined waste management units. COMMENT NO. 13: 13.) Comment #50. How did the water bearing zones change or how were they impacted by the recent high rain and flooding events? RESPONSE: The comment is in regard to updates made to the water bearing zones of groundwater monitoring wells in Table 3. The table had misidentified several wells to be "deep" that were in fact "shallow" or "intermediate." These wells have been corrected in the WDRs. An analysis was conducted to assess the effects of recent rainfall activity and how groundwater elevations changed from the Fourth Quarter 2022 Water Quality Monitoring Report (WQMR) to the First Quarter 2023 WQMR. Groundwater elevations were sampled between 10/28/2022 to 11/9/2022 and 1/24/2023 to 2/10/2023 in the Fourth Quarter 2022 WQMR and First Quarter 2023 WQMR, respectively. All the groundwater wells with sufficient comparable data (4 out of 87 wells did not have elevations for Fourth Quarter 2022) saw an increase in water levels from one reporting season to the next and ranged from 0.75 feet to 45.4 feet. Out of 87 groundwater wells that were analyzed, 42 wells saw water elevation increase by 20 to 45.4 feet. COMMENT NO. 14: In conclusion, Forward has been delinquent in complying with cleanup orders and when they do implement some efforts, they are way too little and way too late. The contaminated plume continues to grow rather than shrink, or even maintain its historical boundaries and I am certain that the recent water volume has increased the plume even