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<br /> <br />Foothill Sanitary Landfill Page 38 of 52 San Joaquin County DPW - Solid Waste <br />Joint Technical Document Revised 01/05/2026 <br /> <br />Routine maintenance is conducted per manufacturer’s standards by staff and the local <br />dealers. <br /> <br />6.6. Special Handling Procedures <br /> <br />Hazardous wastes are prohibited in the landfill. The Load Checking Program is <br />described in the Hazardous Waste Exclusion Program, dated January 1992 (Appendix G). <br /> <br />The load checking program assigns a refuse worker to check loads and visually monitor <br />the unloading area. This load checker examines the contents of the vehicles as they are <br />unloading, checking for unacceptable wastes. This person also records on a vehicle log, the <br />vehicle number of each vehicle and the name of the hauler, if the customer is a commercial <br />hauler. <br /> <br />The discharge area is approximately 100 feet by 100 feet. Loads containing hazardous <br />waste are rejected. If the presence of hazardous waste is not discovered until after the load is <br />dropped, the procedures in the Hazardous Waste Exclusion Program are followed. <br /> <br />Special handling procedures are also employed by the landfill for specific types of waste, <br />including: <br /> <br />x Electronic wastes (universal wastes, electronic devices and computer screens) are <br />stored onsite prior to removal. At this time, most electronic waste is transported to <br />either the Lovelace Material Recovery Facility & Transfer Station or to the North <br />County Recycling Center and Sanitary Landfill, where it is combined with similar <br />materials collected at those sites, and shipped to an offsite vendor for <br />recycling/proper disposal. Depending on the quantities collected at Foothill Landfill <br />and at the other two sites, electronic waste may be transported directly to the off-site <br />vendor. <br /> <br />x Tires are segregated from the waste stream and stored onsite prior to shipping to an <br />offsite vendor for recycling/disposal.