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4 Environmental Analysis 4.17 Utilities and Service Systems outlets, and fiber termination for the gen-tie line. The improvements made would be within the existing Tesla Substation footprint. The construction activities associated with the PG&E infrastructure would be required to comply with and adhere to the same design criteria included in the CBC as the rest of the Project components. Construction would be required to comply with requirements of the Construction General Permit as required by Mitigation Measure GEO-1, similar to the Project components evaluated above, including implementation of BMPs during construction activities. Subsurface excavation required for the PG&E infrastructure is not anticipated to occur at depths below 10 feet below ground surface. These improvements would not alter the current and future water usage of the Project. The utilities discussed in IMPACT 4.17-1 would not be affected due to the PG&E improvements, nor would solid waste management exceed any capacity of the local waste facilities or the standards set by local and state agencies as a result of these impacts. Additionally, the PG&E improvements would not obstruct the implementation of the Basin Plan or the Tracy Subbasin GSP. Thus, the improvements would have no impact on local utilities. 4.17.6 Cumulative Impacts The potential cumulative impacts related to utilities and service systems would extend within the service areas of the utility and service providers that would serve the Project site. As discussed above, there would be less than significant impacts with respect to construction or expansion of water, wastewater, stormwater, telecommunications, or natural gas facilities, or compliance with federal, state, or local management and reduction statutes related to solid waste, such that there is no significant cumulative impact to these criteria to which the Project could contribute. The cumulative analysis provided below considers the incremental impacts related to water availability and landfill capacity that could be caused by the Project in combination with other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects. The geographic scope of potential cumulative impacts to landfill capacity would be the areas served by the Foothill Sanitary Landfill and the North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill. The Foothill Sanitary Landfill currently has a permitted capacity of 1,500 tons of solid waste per day and a total design capacity of 138,000,000 cubic yards; the landfill has an estimated "cease of operation date" of December 31, 2082 (CalRecycle 2022a; San Joaquin County 2022). The North County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill has a permitted capacity of 825 tons of solid waste per day and a total design capacity of 41,200,000 cubic yards with an estimated "cease of operation date" of December 31, 2048 (CalRecycle 2022b). The Project would generate solid waste, causing less than significant impacts during short-term construction and decommissioning and a negligible amount during operations and maintenance, recycling whenever feasible. In the unlikely scenario that the cumulative projects resulted in a significant cumulative effect, the Project's incremental contribution would not be cumulatively considerable due to the negligible amount of waste that would be generated during the Project's lifecycle. The WSA determined water availability during normal, single dry, and multiple dry years during a 20-year projection in addition to the area's existing and planned future uses. Any adjacent Griffith Energy Storage Project 4.17-14 Tetra Tech/SCH 2022120675 Draft Environmental Impact Report August 2023