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Each load of source separated food waste deposited in the bunker shall be visually inspected for noticeable contamination. If contamination is seen it will be removed and transferred to the MSW residue bin/box associated with the Scott Mega THOR (THOR),food waste processing unit. A loader will be used to transfer source separated food waste from the bunker to the THOR hopper. The loader operator will turnover material (fluff) in the bunker to look for contamination that would adversely impact the THOR, and/or quality of the end product. Again, if any contamination is found it will be removed and placed in the MSW residue bin/box. Before material is placed in the THOR hopper, the THOR unit shall be inspected per manufacturers Operators Guide (See Attachments). Only after all THOR inspection procedures have been followed will material be placed in the hopper. Once material is placed in the THOR hopper, and a finished product box or tanker is properly placed under the THOR slurry discharge hose, or discharge piping is valved such that residential carts will be filled and carts are placed under discharge pipe,the THOR will be placed into operation following staging outlined in the Operators Guide. Finished product will be pumped from the THOR to an overhead piping system that will deposit material in a container designed for the eventual end user. Material that is being transported to a composter will be placed in a roll off box,solid waste truck,or a series of residential carts from which material can be placed with yard waste in a residential collection truck. Material intended for compost will be transported to an authorized composter. Material transported to the City of Manteca, Water Quality Control Facility (WQCF), or other authorized anaerobic digestion facility will be placed in a tanker or box compatible with the receiving facility's material handling infrastructure. The finished product material transport vehicle will enter Lovelace via the commercial truck entrance. The vehicle will make its way to the loading dock located on the west side of the tip floor, near the south west corner of the building. The vehicle will travel from the commercial truck entrance to the loading dock via a route established by the San Joaquin County Solid Waste Division. The vehicle shall back down the existing road to near the loading dock door. Once the vehicle is in place the overhead finished product hose will be placed in the top of the box/tank/truck. As the box/tank/truck is being filled it shall be monitored such that it is not over filled. When the box/tank/truck is filled to the desired level the Thor and associated pump will be turned off. The top fill hose will be removed, and the box/tank/truck will be replaced with an empty box/tank/truck. At the end of the day, regardless of the level of material in the box/tank/truck,the box/tank/truck will be removed. From time-to-time valving on the THOR discharge piping will be adjusted to fill 96-gallon carts with processed food waste. This will only occur if there is an issue preventing loading of processed food waste via the overhead piping system. Those carts will be serviced with a residential yard waste collection truck. Upon arrival at Lovelace, the residential yard waste collection truck shall enter the commercial truck entrance and proceed to the Lovelace scale house for weighing. From the scale house the yard waste collection truck will follow a prescribed route established by San Joaquin County Solid Waste Division, through Lovelace to enter the tip floor via the truck ramp on the southwest corner of the tip floor. The yard waste collection truck shall proceed up the ramp and on to the tip floor at a speed not exceeding 5 miles per hour(MPH). The yard waste collection truck driver shall take care to proceed onto the tip floor only when clear of personnel and vehicles,and the driver's eyes have adjusted from the light of outside to the relative dark of the tip floor. The yard waste collection truck shall stop next to the THOR residue bin/box. There the yard waste collection truck will tip the food waste carts into the truck. After receiving processed food waste, the yard waste collection truck shall exit the tip floor utilizing the same ramp used to access the tip floor. Again,the collection truck driver will take special care to be sure the ramp is free of vehicles and personnel before proceeding down the ramp. The driver shall take special care again to allow their eyes to transition from dark to light before moving into the light of the outside. From there the yard waste collection truck will proceed to the Lovelace scale house to be weighed, after which the yard waste collection truck will transport material to an authorized compost facility. Processed food waste can be placed with yard waste in a collection truck, but processed food waste and yard waste will not be mechanically blended together while at Lovelace. The city may utilize overhead conveyance piping to fill a bin/box on the loading dock with processed food waste. The city wi II then have the option to remove accumulated material from the bin/box with a vacuum truck. The vacuum truck will then transport the processed food waste to an authorized composter or anaerobic digestion facility. The THOR will be shutdown after all material in the bunker has been process for the day, or once the transport vehicle box/tank/truck is filled, or when the MSW residue bin/box is replaced, or at the end of the workday. Shutdown of the THOR will follow procedures outlined in the Operators Guide.