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Complaint ID - 28366

Boone County Landfill - 310200505

1268 224th Lane Boone, IA 50036

Boone County

FO 5

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Document Name	Type	File Date	Note
Boone Co. SLF discharge lab report (#28366).pdf	Letter (public)	06/08/2020	water sample lab report
Boone County SLF (#28366).pdf	Letter (public)	06/08/2020	NOV letter with photos

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7/30/2020	Amie Davidson, Geoff Spain, Ted Petersen, and I met via video conference to discuss the Boone County SLF situation, especially as it relates to questions from State Senator Quirmbach of Ames. I subsequently emailed a copy of this NOV letter to the Boone County Board of Supervisors. We will send a copy to the other landowner along the waterway, James Wahl, tomorrow.	BILL GROSS
7/16/2020	6/18/20 text messages: Hi Bill. John Roosa from Boone County Landfill here. Just following up with you on our progress. The pond dredging was completed yesterday (6/17) late afternoon. This morning we installed silt fence around the pipe. We are going to finish getting what we can for clean up in the ditch, and we are planning to return the long reach excavator rental on Monday. We will monitor the sediment basin area, and we plan to haul leachate water to Boone Water Waste plant until we get a better system in place for recirculation. Thank you. John Okay. No water draining to the creek now, right? That’s correct. No water draining out since Tuesday. On Monday there was barely a trickle. Guessing that will change tonight if the rain comes as planned, but glad to have the silt fence installed and the pond emptied.	BILL GROSS
7/15/2020	6/18/20 - John Roosa informed me that they had stopped the basin discharge, finished dredging the basin, and had wrapped a silt fence around the riser pipe. He said they would be hauling the septic water to the Boone POTW until they figure out a better system.	BILL GROSS
7/15/2020	6/12/20 - I visited the site and met with John Roosa, manager, and Todd Fisher, operator. We looked at the stormwater basin at the south end of the site. The water in the basin was black and septic. Some was trickling out the riser pipe to a waterway which flows through Joe Reutter property and eventually to Honey Creek to the south. Landfill staff had been hauling water from the basin and pumping it over the south slope of the fill area (which has a plastic liner). The water was flowing through the cover earth and emerging at the toe and flowing toward the sediment basin again. A sump was being excavated in the flow path near the basin, so no water was entering the sediment basin at the time. I advised landfill officials to stop the discharge from the sediment basin, to spread out the application over the lined cell so it does not run off (or haul it to a wastewater treatment plant), to dredge the sediment basin and wrap the riser pipe so stormwater does not short-circuit through it, and evaluate the landfill stormwater control system to improve the quality of its discharge. I checked the stream on Reutter property and found the flow very low. There was what appeared to be sewage fungus on the substrate of the stream indicating some longer term water quality problems. I took samples of the water. [The lab report (attached) does not show significant contamination.] The trickle of this water into Honey Creek several hundred feet to the south did not visually appear to be having any impact on water quality in Honey Creek. I plan to revisit the area to follow up further.	BILL GROSS
7/9/2020	Joe Reutter called and I briefly reported to him my findings and that I would be following up.	BILL GROSS
6/9/2020	6/9/20 - I talked to the landfill administrator John Roosa. The seep has been cored and sealed (for now). I asked him to make provision for heavy rainfall. I also asked him to take samples of the creek (TOC, ammonia) and pump up the residual from the creek and bring it back to the landfill. I told him I would visit the landfill later this week. I left a voice message for Joe Reutter.	BILL GROSS
6/9/2020	Tom Atkinson (FO5) stopped by and confirmed that leachate was being released. Landfill staff were instructed to contain the leachate promptly. The appearance in the stream would indicate that leachate may have been in it for some time.	BILL GROSS

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			submit a response regarding stormwater and leachate management

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Complaint ID - 28366

Boone County Landfill - 310200505

1268 224th Lane Boone, IA 50036

Boone County

FO 5

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