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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978-07-18; City Council; Resolution 5482!? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 a 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 RESOLUTION NO. 5482 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE SAN DIEGO REGIONAL SOLID WASTE PLAN. The City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, does hereby resolve as follows: 1. The City Council of the City of Carlsbad has reviewed the First Amendment to the San Diego Regional Solid Waste Management Plan 1976-2000, which provides for the establishment of additional and/or replacement industrial liquid waste handling facilities, and concurs with said amendment. PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, held on the 18th day of July , 1978 by the following vote, to wit: AYES: NOES : ABSENT : ATTEST: Councilmen Packard, Skotnicki , Lewis, Anear and Councilwoman Casler None None (SEAL) Mayor, City of Carlsbad .. FIRST MIENDENT TO THE SAk DIEGO' REGIONAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN 1976-2000 A. Chapter IT. is amended to read 3s follows: 1. Page 11-28, add iten 19. 19. The Omar Rendering Company Class I: disposal site will be closed and replaced by an iridust.ria1 liquid waste transfer/handling facility. ' 2. Page 11-33. Under category "K4ZARDOUS WASTE CONTROL" delete word "CONTROLir and add action j.tems 5, 6 and 7 as follows: 6 5/78-7/7 s 7 6/78-2000 Close existing omar Class I site Est25lish Ornar replacement facility b!ain'-Lain inventory of hazardous waste .generation and establish facilities as warranted by increased generation. L L I 3 L I B. Chapter X is a.nei-deL to read as follom: 1. Page X-5. DdeZe fifth paragraph and susbstitute the following: Two of the 11 Class 1 sites in the State are located in south San Dicgo County close to the United States-Mexico border.. by the County of San Diego. One site is operated \ The other site was, until recently, operated' by the Omar Rendering-Company. Both sites are underlain with altcrnate layers of bentonite clay and clayey sand wliich meet the gco-hydrol.ogica1 standards established for water quality control. The County sitc accepts most dry and liquid industrial wastes, waste oils, and pesticides. methods are dry pit burial, co-disposal, injection wells, and lagoons. Ilisposal . 0 C ,d .. 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 Water Quality Control Board for additional site developments. The Omar Rendering Company recently sold its industrial liquid waste collection and hauling business to the BKK Corporation in order to con- centrate on its rendering operations. used in the disposal of acids, caustics, etchant 1iquids;and water soluble oils are being deactivated and backfilled. The open evaporation ponds formerly . Completion is scheduled by end .of July 1978. * For comparison, quantities discharged at these sites for a nine-month period beginning July 1974throughMarch 1975 are shown in Table X-3. The principal produczrs in the County are shown on Tzble X-4. .- 2. Page X-6. Re-cise Table X-2 as follows: CLASS I WASTE DISPOS.4L FACILITIES IN CALIFORNIA - APRIL 1978 Contra, Costa Comty: Sierra Reclamation 6 Disposal West. Contra Costa Fresno County: Big Blue Hills . Los Angeles County: BKK Calabassas ,- ~ Palos Verdes ~ San Diego Ccmty: . e Omar Rendering Company* Otay Sanitary Landfill Santa Barbara County: Casmalia Disposal Site Solana County: Pacific Reclamation 6 Disposal Ventura County: Simi Valley Source: State Solid Waste Management Bozrd . *Site closure scheduled July -1978 . .. 3. Page X-8. Revise first paragraph as follows: Superimposed upon water 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. Rule 66 stipulates that Ira person shall not, during any one day, Subsection (i) of discard, dux?, 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 any mans II which will permit the evaporation of such solvent into the atnosphere: . . This would incl&e such liquified wastes as paint thinners, gasoline, waste paint, and sludges'which contain photochemically reactive organic coxpounds. Since a significant quantity of these wastes is received at the Otay sits, steps have been taken to comply with APCD's res- lations. out. The lagoons, or open evaporation ponds, are being phased Solvents md certain acids are now injected into covered wells drilled in soiid waste. been reclassified as Class 11-1, 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. Portions of the Class If area have recently 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 be the only Class I site south of Los hgeles. .- Though the BKK Corporation continues to operate the Oriiar 0 Rendering site as a temporary transfer facility, liquid waste 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). earlier, all pumpable liquids in the pond will be removed and the As noted site permanently closed by the end of July 1978. tative history as shown on Table X-3, Omar was handling the majority of the industrial liquid wastes disposed of in the County. closure of this site, therefore, poses concern. Based on quanti- The As shown in Figure X-2, it is projected that the volume of liquid hazardous wastes will nearly doxble by the year 2000. In addition, Figure X-1 shows that the majority of kxom industrial waste generators in the region are located principzlly in the northern part of the City of San Diego and in the newer klustrial 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 northcrn metropolitan are3 of the City of San Diego near the intersection of Miramar Road and Prestress Nay (see Figure X-1). be open to the public. This facility would Except for the The Omar facility was not. Miramar Naval Station to the south, this area is mostly industrialized. BKK proposes to re-haul the waste to its 'Class I facility in West' L. Covina for ultimate disposal. .. .- 0 5. .. 6. 7. 8. Page X-9, Delete first paragraph and substitute foilowing: Regional Industrial Waste Haulers The Liquid Waste Haulers Act of 1970 provided for the licensing of all firms hauling liquid wastes, either hazardous or non-hazardous, in the State. -transport hazardous wastes shall be registered with the State Department of Health. according to State Water Resources Control Board records are: In addition, State regulations require that all haulers who Licensed haulers operating in the San Diego area in 1978 Geo. F. Casey Co. Nelco Refining Co. Chamellor G Ogden Pepper Industries VictorJCalifornia Solid Waste Services, Inc Sani-Tainer, Inc. Southern Calif. Services COT. Chatham Company Coast Waste Management General Dynaiiics SanSDiego Gas 6 Electric American Processing Co. Modern Septic Services Liquid wastes collected by Chancellor Ogden are hauled to the BKK chemical waste landfill in West Covina for disposal. The other firms utilize the Ctay site. Page X-9. De?e;e last sentence of second paragraph. E Substitute attached revised Figure X-1. Page X-14. Delete second paragraph and substitute following: Increasingly stringent Federal and State laws regulating the d5sposal of hazardous wastes and continued growth of the industrial base are creating a need for additional Class I waste disposal capability in the region. disposal are generated as a result of the applications of environmental laws and greater production, of the industrial waste stream poses spccial hazards to public health and Each year greater amounts of wastes destined largely for land According to EDA estimates, about 10 percent I .I 7 . ,” . ia I .. 0 the environment unless properly handled, transported,.treated, stored, and disposed. acids, caustics, flammable or explosive substances, or other materials in sufficient amounts to cause acute or chronic health effects. availability of acceptable land disposal sites, processing, storage, and handling facilities is thus crucial to the proper management of these wastes. ficant detrimental effect upon the region’s hazardous waste management capability. liquid waste handling facility. These wastes may contain toxic chemicals, pesticides, The The closing of the Char facility would, therefore, have a signi- There is an immediate need for a replacement industrial The establishment of an industrial . liquid waste transfer station in the North bletropolitan area of the City of San Diego could meet this need. study is needed to ascertain requirements for additional industrial liquid waste handling facilities in the region. It has also been determined that a 9. Page X-14. and 3 respectively. Delete Item 1 and change Items 2, 3 and 4 to be Items 1, 2 10. Page X-14. Add Items 4, 5 and 6 as follows: . 4. ?“ne Omar Rendering Company Class I disposal site will be closed and replaced by an ir,dustrial liquid waste transfer/handling facility. 5. The County Depz~tnent 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. identified by this study, additional Class I handling facilities may be established by public or private entities. Based upon the needs 6. The County Department of Sanitation and Flood Control will maintain an inventory of hazardous waste generation, will monitor changing disposal requirements, -and will provide for additional facilities when waste handling demands exceed capabilities. ..