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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Statement 1978/07/05 Item 07CITY OF CHULA VISTA COUNCIL AGENDA STATEMENT Item• No. For meeting of 7-5-78 ITEM TITLE Resolution Concurring in the First Amendment to the z .-, { .~ !~. San Diego Regional Solid Waste ~lan ,1 SUBMITTED BY Director of Public Works/City Engineer j~J) ~ "~ ITEM EXPLANATION (4/5TH'S VOTE REQUIRED YES NO X ) The scheduled closing of the Omar Rendering Company's Class I disposal site in July 1978, necessitates a revision in the San Diego Regional Solid Waste Management Plan 1976-2000. The County Department of Sanitation and Flood Control has prepared the attached First Amendment to the regional plan. That amendment was approved by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on June 13, 1978. The amendment provides for the establishment of an industrial liquid waste transfer station to replace the Omar Rendering Company facility. Closing of the Omar facility without replacement would have a signifi- cant detrimental effect upon regional capability to provide for the disposal of environmentally hazardous materials. The establishment of a transfer station as allowed by the amendment would provide the needed hazardous waste disposal capability and permit growth of the industrial base of the region. State law requires that any amendment to a County solid waste manage- ment plan shall be subject to the approval by ~. majority of the Gltle°'~ within the County which contains a majority of the population of the incorporated area of the County. Staff has reviewed the First Amendment to the San Diego Regional Solid Waste Management Plan and considers it appropriate as submitted. WEH:vt:LY073 PV11 TT1 TTf~ CRhItSIIJ Agreement Resolution x Ordinance Plat Notification List Other x ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT: Attached Submitted on FINANCIAL IMPACT None STAFF RECOMMENDATION Approve resolution concurring in First Amendment to the San Diego Regional Solid Waste Management Plan. BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION Not applicable COUNCIL ACTION Because of environmental constraints, the lagoons are being phased out. ' Limitations are also in effect on quantities that can be handled pending; approval by the Regional }~`ater Quality Control Board fc~r additional site developments. Ttie Omar Rendering Company recently sold its industrial liquid iaaste `' collection and hauling business to the B}:K Corporation in order to con- centrate on its rendering operations. The open evaporation ponds formerly used in the disposal of acids, caustics, etchant liquids, and eater soluble oils are being deactivated and backfilled. Completion is scheduled by end of July 1978. For compariscn, quantities discharged at these sites for a nine-month period beginning July 1974throu~hAlarch 1975 are shown in Table X-3. The principal producers in the County are show~i on Table -4. 2. Page X-6. Revise Table X-2 as follows: CL.=ASS I }yAS'I'E DISPOSAL FACILITIES IN CALIFORNIA - APRIL 1978 Contra ~osta County: Sierra Reclamation $ Disposal. Nest Contra Costa San Diego County: Omar Rendering Company Otay Sanitary Landfill Fresno County: Big Blue Hills Santa Barbara County: Casmalia Disposal Site Los Angeles County: Solana County: BKK Pacific Reclamation u Disposal Calabassas Palos Verdes Ventura County: Simi Valley Source: State Solid }tiaste btanagement Board *Site closure scheduled July 1978 FIRST ~'1~'~IENDbIENT TO TIIE SAN DIEGO REGIONAL SOLID WASTE 1`~IANAGEi•IENT PLAN 1976-2000 A. Chapter II is amended to read as follows: 1. Page II-28, add item 19. 19. The Omar Rendering Company Class I disposal site vrill be closed and replaced by an_iridustrial liquid waste transfer/handling facility. 2. Page II-33. Under category "IiaZARDOUS IVASTE CONTROL" delete word "CC;~TROL" and add action it-ems 5, 6 and 7 as follows: 5 ~ 5/7S-?/78 ~ 6 ~ 5/75-7/78 I 7 ~ 8/78-2000 B. Chatter X is a:ner,•ded to Close existing Omar Class I site L Establish Omar replacement facility L ~ Ai Maintain inventory of hazardous ~ A! L waste generation and establish ~ facilities as warranted by j increased generation. read as fol lo:as 1. rage X-5. Delete fifth paragraph and susbstitute the following: Ttivo of the 11 Class I sites in the State are located in south San Diego County close to the United States-Mexico border. One site is operated by the County of San Diero. The other site tivas, until recently, operated by the 0„iar Rendering Company. Bot}~~ si.tes are itnderla.in ~•;ith alternate layers of bentonite clay and clayey sand tivhich meet the geo-hydrological standards established for water a~ual.ity control. The County site accepts most dry and liquid industrial wastes, waste oils, and pesticides. Disposal methods are dry pit burial, co-disposal, injection wells, and lagoons. q 172. Rendering site as a temporary transfer facility, liquid ~~raste disposal at this location has been essentially eliminated. Liquid wastes collected by BKK in the San Diego area are briefly stored in one of the remaining ponds for transfer to BKK's Class I chemical ~~ waste landfill in Nest Covina (Los Angeles County). As noted earlier, all pumpable liquids in the pond will be removed and the site permanently closed by the end of July 1978. Based on quanti- tative history as shown on Table X-3, Ornar was handling the majority of the industrial liquid wastes disposed of in the County. The closure of this site, therefore, poses concern. As shown in Figure X-2, it is projected that the volume of liquid hazardous wastes will nearly double by the year 2000. In addition, Figure X-1 show;-that the majority of ?mown industrial waste generators in the region are located principally in the northern part of the City of San Diega and in the n?wer industrial areas along the Carlsbad-Escondido axis. The BKK Corporation intends to replace its temporary transfer facility with a large scale industrial waste transfer station in the northern metropolitan area of the City of San Diego near the intersection of 'Miramar Road and Prestress }Vay (see Figure X-1). This facility would be open to the public. The Omar facility was not. Except for t}ie Miramar Naval Station to the south, this area is mostly industrialized. BKK proposes to re-haul the waste to its Class I facility in :Vest Covina for ultimate disposal. 3. Page X-8, Revise first paragraph as follows: Superimposed upon ~.vater quality control standards which govern the disposal of liquid industrial and hazardous wastes is the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District's Rule 66. Subsection (i) of Rule 66 stipulates that "a person shall not, during any one day, discard, dump, or otherwise dispose of a total of more than one and one-half gallons of any organic solvent which exceeds the compositional limitations for photochemically reactive compounds. by ary means which will permit the evaporation of such solvent into the atmosphere. ." This would include such liquified wastes as paint thinners, gasoline, waste paint, and sludges which contain photochemicai'_y reactive organic compcunds. Since a significant quantity of these wastes is received at the Otay site, steps have been taken to comply with ~.PCD's regu- lations. The lagoons, or open evaporation ponds, are being phased out. Solve..^.ts and certain acids are now injected into covered wells drilled in solid waste. Portions of the Class II area have recently been reclassified as Class II-I, and a request is presently pending before the Regional Water Quality Control Board to further expand the site for the disposal of most Group I wastes. 4. Page X-8, Delete second paragraph and substitute following: Upon closure of the Omar Rendering Company's hazardous waste disposal facility, the County's Otay site will he the only Class I site south of Los Angeles. T}IOUgh the BKK Corporation continues to operate the Omar ~~7Z Figure g - ~ (:Zevised 5/7s) a J ~ i LO h `F t~ 5. Page X-9. Delete first paragraph and substitute following: Regional Industrial Waste Haulers The Liquid 1Vaste Haulers Act of 1970 provided for the licensing of all firms hauling liquid 1:•astes, either hazardous or non-hazardous, in the State. In addition, State regulations require that all haulers who transport hazardous wastes shall be registered with the State Department of Health. Licensed haulers operating in t}le San Diego area in 1975 according to State 1Vater Resources Control Board records are: Geo. F. Casey Co. Nelco Refining Co. Chancellor ~ Ogden Pepper Industries Victor/California Solid 19aste Services, Inc. Sani-Tainer, Inc. Southern Calif. Services Corp. Chatham Company Coast tYaste Alanagement General Dynamics San Diego Gas ~ Electric American Processing Co. Modern Septic Services Liquid wastes collected by Chancellor F; Ogden are hauled to the E?;}: che~;ical waste ?ar:dfill in Nest Covina for disposal. The other `firms utilize the Otav site. 6. Page X-9. Delete last sentence of second paragraph. 7. Substitute :attached revised Figure X-1. 8. Page :~-14. Delete second paragraph and substitute following: Increasingly stringent Federal and State Iaws regulating the disposal of hazardous ~~astes and continued gro~.~th of the industrial base arc creating a need for additional Class I waste disposal capability in the region. Fach year greater amounts of ~tiastes destined largely for land disposal are generated as a result of the applications of environmental lati.s and greater production. According to FPA estimates, about 10 percent of t}le industrial ~~;aste stream poses special hazards to public health and ~l'Z2 f the environment unless properly handled, transported, treated, stored, and disposed. These wastes may contain toxic chemicals, pesticides, acids, caustics, flame-sable or explosive substances, or other materials in sufficient amounts to cause acute or chronic health effects.- The availability of acceptable Land disposal sites, processing, storage, and handling facilities is thus crucial to the proper management of these tivastes. The closing of the Omar facility tivould, therefore, have a signi- ficant detrimental effect upon the region's hazardous waste management capability. There is ar. immediate need for a replacement industrial liquid waste handling facility. The establishment of an industrial liquid !waste transfer station in the North Metropolitan area of the City of San Diego could meet this need. It has also been determined that a study is needed to ascertain requirements for additional industrial liquid waste handling facilities in the region. 9. Page X-14. Delete Item 1 and change Items 2, 3 and 4 to be Items 1, 2 and 3 respectively. 10. Page X-14. add ltera ~+, 5 and 6 as follows: 4. The Omar R:ndering Company Class I disposal site will be closed and replaced by az industrial liquid waste transfer/handling facility. 5. The County Department of Sanitation and Flood Control shall conduct a comprehensive study of the County's near-term and long-term needs and capacity .for hazardous waste disposal. Based upon the needs identified by this study, additional Class I handling facilities may be esta:olished by public or private entities. 6. The County Department of Sanitation and Flood Control will. maintain an inventor}- of hazardous waste generation, will rionitor changing disposal requirements, anal will provide for additional facilities :when ti•;aste handling demands exceed capabilities.