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In the meantime, Forward has made arrangements to connect off-site properties, including the prison facilities and several residences, to the City of Stockton public water supply system. In some cases where such connections were impractical for a few residential properties, Forward provided these residential properties with individual water treatment systems at no cost to the homeowners. Therefore, as detailed above, we believe the current CAO provisions for an extraction and treatment system at the CDCR property will not achieve the CAO's goals and may well only serve to spread the localized contamination at the CDCR property. Full compliance with the CAO requirements as drafted in 2017 would ignore critical information from further site investigations subsequently conducted at properties north of the landfill. As we understand the RWQCB's position stipulated in the CAO,this would include the installation of extraction wells located near the center of plume mass on the CDCR property,and the neighboring 7833 Newcastle Road,which multiple lines of evidence suggest both properties represent separate source area(s) with independent VOC release(s). Forward respectfully requests the RWQCB review the FS addendum in its entirety and provide comments on the separate source area(s)with independent VOC release(s)and the formation of potentially commingled plume(s) on the CDCR property, and that the RWQCB consider the groundwater extraction well testing results on the CDCR property, and further consider the proposed remedial alternatives presented for this separate source area(s) with total VOC concentrations >25 fag/L. The discoveries of two separate contamination sources in the shallow zone of the aquifer downgradient of the landfill and of the geologic conditions on the prison property warrant a thorough review and reconsideration of the 2017 CAO, which is now six years old. The CAO does not reflect current knowledge of groundwater contamination north of the landfill and provides for remedial action that we believe will be ineffective. Forward Inc. prides itself on being a good neighbor and landfill operator. We continue to welcome any opportunity to sit down with RWQCB to resolve these issues cooperatively. If you have questions or comments regarding the above information, please contact me at (650) 713-3632. Kindest regards, 6� Ben Wade West Environmental Manager Enclosures 1. Partial Log of Forward Email Communications with CDCR and DGS 2. Figure Showing POC GWTS Capture Zone and Offsite Sources 3. Table Summarizing Major Project Progress Milestones 5