Washington Administrative Code
Title 173 - Ecology, Department of (See also Titles 197, 317, 372, and 508)
Chapter 173-351 - Criteria for municipal solid waste landfills
Section 173-351-220 - Additional operating criteria
Current through Register Vol. 24-06, March 15, 2024
All owners or operators of MSWLF units must operate the facility so as to:
(1) Control road dust;
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Operators should carefully select dust suppressants approved by the jurisdictional health departments that do not pose a threat to surface or groundwater quality. |
(2) Collect scattered litter as necessary to prevent vector harborage, a fire hazard, an aesthetic nuisance, or adversely affect wildlife or its habitat;
(3) Prohibit scavenging;
(4) Landfill personnel. All landfills must:
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The definition of operators in chapter 173-300 WAC is not the same as the definition of operator in this rule. |
(5) Ensure that reserve operational equipment is available to maintain and meet all operating criteria;
(6) Clearly mark the active area boundaries authorized in the permit, with permanent posts or equivalent method;
(7) Thoroughly compact the solid waste before succeeding layers are added except for the first lift over a liner;
(8) Maintain the monitoring system required in WAC 173-351-400, Groundwater monitoring systems and remedial action, WAC 173-351-200(4), explosive gas monitoring of this regulation and any other monitoring specified in the permit issued in WAC 173-351-700;
(9) Require recycling.
(10) Prohibiting disposal of municipal sewage sludge or biosolids in MSWLF units.
(11) Disposal of dangerous waste prohibited. Owners or operators of landfills must not knowingly dispose, treat, store, or otherwise handle dangerous waste unless the requirements of the Dangerous waste regulation, chapter 173-303 WAC are met;
(12) Jurisdictional health department inspection of activities. In accordance with RCW 70.95.190, employees of the jurisdictional health department or their agents may enter upon, inspect, sample, and move freely about the premises of any MSWLF, after presentation of credentials.
Statutory Authority: RCW 70.95.020(3), 70.95.060(1), and 70.95.260(1), (6). 12-23-009 (Order 07-15), § 173-351-220, filed 11/8/12, effective 12/9/12. Statutory Authority: Chapter 70.95 RCW and 40 CFR 258. 93-22-016, § 173-351-220, filed 10/26/93, effective 11/26/93.