WAC 173-350-400 - Limited purpose landfills
Agendas and meeting notes from the advisory committee on section 400 on the WAC 173-350 rulemaking.
WAC 173-350-400 - Limited purpose landfills
Ecology staff lead: Bill Harris
Work group members
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| Rod Whittaker | Washington Refuse and Recycling Association |
| Jody Snyder | Waste Connections |
| Ted Silvestri | Yakima County Health District |
| David Lowe | Waste Management |
| Chris Martin | WA Department of Ecology - WQ |
| Jana McDonald | Central Pre-mix |
| John Bromley | WA Department of Natural Resources |
| Kathy Pierson | Snohomish Health District |
| Kevin Scott | Port Townsend Paper |
Focus: Section 400 establishes standards, criteria, and requirements for landfills receiving a wide range of solid wastes. Only dangerous waste, municipal solid waste, and inert waste being disposed in inert waste landfills are excluded. A work group will be formed and begin meeting in late 2014. Some issues to be explored:
- The descriptions of the options to propose alternative designs for liners and final closure covers don't reflect the intent of these options or current practice.
- The requirements for environmental monitoring and reporting are unclear or inconsistent, particularly with regard to parameters other than groundwater.
- Post-closure endpoint criteria are poorly defined and inconsistent with contemporary approaches to determining if a landfill's post-closure care can be ended while protecting human health and the environment.
- Financial assurance requirements for post-closure maintenance and monitoring are based on an assumption of a fixed period for post-closure care, rather than being linked to an estimate of time to reach protective and sustainable post-closure endpoint criteria.
- A 2006 revision to WAC 173-160, Minimum Standards for Construction of Wells, modified that rule's setback requirements when siting water wells near landfills permitted under WAC 173-350, creating a conflict with the setback requirements in both sections 400 and 410.
Update: Draft revisions to sections 400 and 410 have been proposed to the workgroup, based largely on two determinations coming out of the broader rule process. First, inert materials and consequently what is acceptable in an inert waste landfill, are both determined by statute (RCW 70.95.030(10)). Ecology cannot make any adjustments that would allow non-inert materials to be disposed in those facilities. Secondly, a new section 235 is being developed to address "impacted" soils. Those are soils that have characteristics which make them solid wastes - but not inert solid wastes. Some adjustments will be proposed in sections 400 and 410 to accommodate the specifics of the new section 235. Please send questions to w2rrulemaking@ecy.wa.gov.
Work group meetings and notes
March 16, 2015 1-4 p.m., Ecology Headquarters, Lacey