Indiana Administrative Code
Title 329 - SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DIVISION
Article 10 - SOLID WASTE LAND DISPOSAL FACILITIES
Rule 20 - Municipal Solid Waste Landfills; Operational Requirements
Section 20-15 - Cover storage sites and borrow pits requirements

(a) This section applies to cover storage sites and borrow pits located within real property boundaries of the MSWLF.

(b) The owner, operator, or permittee shall grade cover storage sites and borrow pits to:

(c) Vegetation must be cleared only as necessary.

(d) Roads at the cover storage sites and borrow pits must be constructed and maintained in such a way as to minimize the tracking of mud or soil material from the site onto access roads. The owner, operator, or permittee shall provide and maintain equipment to remove any such mud or soil material that is tracked onto access roads. Mud or soil material tracked onto access roads must either be collected and returned on-site or removed.

(e) The use of water to control dust or remove mud or soil material from an on-site road surface or an access road must not result in the discharge of sediment directly to surface water. Dust must be controlled by effective means so that it does not constitute or contribute to a nuisance, a health hazard, or a safety hazard.

(f) Topsoil must be removed in a separate layer prior to preparation of an area for disposal or other surface disturbances. If the topsoil is not promptly redistributed as cover, it must be stockpiled and temporarily vegetated as soon as weather conditions permit or otherwise protected from:

(g) When the owner, operator, or permittee is finished with a cover storage site or borrow pits, the slope must not be greater than thirty-three percent (33%).