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1.0 Introduction and Background <br /> The Forward Landfill, owned and operated by Allied Waste Industries (Allied), occupies <br /> approximately 567 acres in Manteca, California, and currently receives municipal solid waste <br /> designated as non-hazardous solid waste. The facility accepts non-hazardous industrial waste, <br /> including non friable asbestos, contaminated soil, municipal wastewater treatment sludge, <br /> construction and demolition waste, and other industrial and special wastes. <br /> The landfill operates under the Forward Landfill Solid Waste Facility Permit 39-AA-0015 and its <br /> associated requirements. This permit requires that asbestos emissions be monitored at the <br /> landfill on a semiannual basis. This plan is designed to satisfy this semiannual monitoring <br /> requirement. Asbestos air monitoring will be performed during the course of asbestos containing <br /> waste handling operations at the landfill. The results from this project will provide data for <br /> evaluation of asbestos emission levels. Meteorological data for wind speed, wind direction, <br /> ambient temperature, and barometric pressure will be obtained from a meteorological (MET) <br /> station set up at the site, or from the nearest MET station. <br /> This Asbestos Air Monitoring Plan presents the asbestos air sampling and analytical procedures <br /> that will be used by Shaw Environmental Inc., (Shaw) in supporting the Forward Landfill <br /> (landfill) monitoring project for the year of 2009. <br /> Project Responsibilities <br /> Shaw's project organization is structured to include experienced professional and technical <br /> specialists in the environmental disciplines. Shaw will be responsible for conducting the field <br /> activities, sample collection and handling, data review, and meeting all reporting requirements <br /> for the monitoring portion of the project. The monitoring objective is to sample for asbestos <br /> ambient air levels at four representative site locations during an asbestos waste disposal <br /> activity/operation that will occur during a particular week. Sampling will occur during normal <br /> working hours. <br /> The sampling locations will be within the landfill fenceline and close to the asbestos sample pile <br /> A minimum of three samplers will be located in the predominant downwind locations with one <br /> additional sampler co-located at one of the downwind locations. One sampler will be located on <br /> the predominant upwind perimeter of the landfill. The sampling locations will be representative <br /> of the worst-case condition on site for asbestos emissions from typical activities at the landfill. <br /> raainao9 1-1 <br />