§ 8.24.050. Hazardous waste load checking program.

All landfills and transfer stations in the county shall implement and maintain a hazardous waste load checking program at each of their solid waste facilities as required by California law (pursuant to Titles 14 and 27, California Code of Regulations); and which program shall also meet the minimum requirements outlined in this chapter.

A.

Each solid waste facility operator shall perform random load checks across all load types including self-haul residential, business and industrial waste loads, franchise hauler waste loads (including residential, commercial and industrial) to detect hazardous waste before such incoming waste is transferred to, and/or disposed at, the landfill. Such program shall have the objectives of: 1) preventing hazardous waste from being placed in a landfill not permitted to receive such waste and 2) educating and discouraging both facility self-haul customers and franchise waste hauler customers from bringing or sending in such material. The minimum number of load checks performed at each solid waste facility shall comply with the following schedule:

Landfill/Transfer Station Random
Load Check Schedule

Average Daily Tonnage	Random Samples per Day
0 to 100 tons/day	**
101 to 600 tons/day	6*
601 to 1,000+ tons/day	10*
* The initial schedule is for a minimum number of "Random Samples per Day" for a minimum of three rotating days per week so arriving customers will not know when there will be an inspection. If a problem persists with large quantities of hazardous waste being found at the landfill or transfer station, the Enforcement Agency or the General Manager-Chief Engineer of the Department of Waste Resources may require the number of "Random Samples per Day" to be applied every day the solid waste facility is open until the problem is deemed corrected.
**Minimum of six samples per week - may all be performed on the same day

 

B.

An inspection form (which shall be certified for completeness and accuracy by the load check inspector on duty) shall be filled out in its entirety at the time of each load check performed at the solid waste facility. The inspection form shall include the following information, to be filled out at the time of inspection:

1)

Date and time of inspection.

2)

Load check inspector name, (certification).

3)

Load type (residential, commercial, industrial).

4)

Hauler/company name/customer name.

5)

Driver name.

6)

Vehicle type (e.g. hand unload, dump truck, side loader, front end loader, or roll off).

7)

License plate number.

8)

Whether or not the load contained prohibited waste.

c.

When prohibited waste is found, forms shall include the following:

1)

Load origin (jurisdiction or route number for side loaders and front end loader vehicles, customer/store name and address where picked up for all other vehicle types).

2)

Hazardous waste found (type/name, class, container size/quantity, volume/weight, unit of gallons or pounds).

3)

Disposition of material (e.g. picked up by responsible party, returned with customer at time of inspection, solid waste facility assumed responsibility of the material, etc.).

d.

Management shall review completed forms at a frequency sufficient to ensure forms are filled out completely and correctly.

e.

The general manager-chief engineer of the department of waste resources or his designated representative and/or a representative of the enforcement agency shall have the right to enter the solid waste facilities at any time to audit their load check program's compliance with these standards. These audits shall be limited to four times in any 12-month period and may include three days in which department of waste resources personnel perform load checks at the facility and one day in which department of waste resources staff review the facility's written load check program, hazardous waste and universal waste shipping records, facility personnel training records, hazardous waste storage areas, and load checking procedures in order to audit the solid waste facility load checking program and/or assist the operator in making its load checking program successful.

(Ord. No. 779.19, § 5, 5-22-2018; Ord. No. 779.18, § 5, 5-23-2017; Ord. No. 779.17, § 5, 5-24-2016)