Nursery Products Hawes Composting Facility Saving Tax Dollars

Nursery Products Hawes Composting Facility Saving Tax Dollars, Recycling Resources, Protecting the Environment 1

Distance Makes A Difference 8 miles from Hinkley 22 miles from B 2 arstow

Why Hawes? l Location Distant from Neighbors Ø Eight miles west of Hinkley Ø Ø 22 miles west of Barstow Ø l l l 3 Same distance as from here to Tustin Same distance as from here to Torrance Proximity to Agriculture 4. 5 Inches of Rain Per Year Closer to Southern California Sanitation Districts

The Solution for the Next Century l l l Less expensive than current alternatives 400, 000 tons per year Biosolids, Green Material & Inert Material Permitted by CIWMB, Lahontan, MDAQMD, USFWS, CDFG, BLM Environmentally sustainable – – 4 Reduce trucking emissions by 3, 000 lbs per day Recycled compost for wineries and farms

Proposed Hawes Composting Site 5

Title 27 Facility Designed for 1, 000 Year Storm Event l Zero Run On & Zero Run off l 366 Feet to Ground Water l Lined Retention Ponds (HDPE & Clay) l 3 Ground Water Monitoring Wells l 2 Vadose Zone Lysimeter l 6

Office & 10 KW Solar System Entrance Retention Ponds Compost Windrows 7 Monitoring Wells

Triple-Redundancy Groundwater Protection Plan Three layers of protection: 1. A liner 60 mil thick (more than a half-inch) 2. Two-prong leak detection system Electronic leak detection under the liner 2. Groundwater well monitoring system 1. 3. Clay 8 base

1900 years to reach groundwater Soil Travel Time to Groundwater (years) ALL SILTY SAND 450 to 2, 000 1, 700 to 4, 500 SILTY SAND W/ CLAY LAYERS 9 NEVER 1, 900

Construction done in Spring 2012 10

Construction Completed! 11

Compost Market 12

Agricultural Compost Market 750 Acres Needed (Apply 3” a Year) Hinkley/Barstow 1000 Acres 13 Newberry Springs 4000 Acres

Contingency Plans l l 14 Agreements with Farmers in Arizona for Land Application (8 Years Experience) Agreements with Landfills in Arizona & California (8 Years Experience)

Saving Money for the Taxpayers l l l Less expensive than trucking to Arizona Facility is Completely Financed Multiple Bonds – – 15 Closure Bond (Lahontan & County) Corrective Action Bond (Lahontan)

Environmentally Sustainable Solution l l Recycle biosolids into compost for farms Reduce two million truck miles per year – l l l Designed for 1, 000 -Year Storm Event Zero Water Run On & Zero Run Off 450 Feet to Ground Water – – 16 Reduce 3, 000 lbs of GHG emissions Lined Retention Ponds (HDPE & Clay) Three Ground Water Monitoring Wells

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