Ohio Admin. Code 3745-400-07 - Design requirements and construction specifications
(A) The owner or operator shall submit the
facility design plan required by this rule
as part of the license application. The facility design plan shall contain
information in accordance with paragraphs (C) to (E)
of this rule for the facility and, if
applicable, for a co-located processing facility and
shall be comprised of all the following:
(1) The site characterization report as
outlined in paragraph (C) of rule
3745-400-09
of the Administrative Code.
[Comment: The presentation of narrative in the site characterization report is not specified, narrative may be presented on plan sheets or on letter or legal sized paper.]
(2) The facility construction design plan, including the soil liner and leachate collection system
plans, as outlined in paragraph (F) of this rule.
(3) The final cap system design plan as
outlined in paragraph (G) of this rule.
(4) The ground water monitoring well system
plan as outlined in rule 3745-400-10 of the Administrative Code if required by
paragraph (B) of rule
3745-400-09
of the Administrative Code.
[Comment: This rule first specifies the design plan contents followed by applicable construction or performance specifications. Those items specified by the plan as for "informational purposes only" are not required to be certified.]
(B) The owner or operator shall comply with
all applicable construction specifications and performance standards required
in this rule.
[Comment: The owner or operator need not reiterate all the construction specifications and performance standards that are in this rule in the facility design plan. The owner or operator, in accordance with rule 3745-400-11 of the Administrative Code, is required to follow the applicable specifications as part of facility operations. If the owner or operator does not follow the specifications, a violation of rule 3745-400-11 of the Administrative Code will result.]
(C) The owner or operator of any facility
shall meet all the construction and performance specifications of this rule
with the following exceptions:
(1) A
recompacted soil liner is required except for the following:
(a) When the conditions in paragraph (A) of
rule
3745-400-09
of the Administrative Code are met.
(b) Where the limits of debris placement were
filled with debris as of September 30, 1996.
(c) Where the limits of debris placement are
filled with debris prior to the effective date of an approved modification to
laterally extend the limits of debris placement.
(2) A leachate collection system as specified
in paragraph (F)(5)(c) of this rule is required for all facilities except in
either of the following areas:
(a) Areas
containing debris as of September 30, 1996.
(b) Areas containing debris placed without a
recompacted soil liner prior to January 1, 1999.
[Comment: All areas for debris placement remaining unfilled as of January 1, 1999, shall have a leachate collection system.]
(D) The owner or
operator of a facility shall construct a standard cap system as specified by
paragraph (G)(2)(a) of this rule over any area of a facility
that receives
where debris is disposed
after September 30, 1996.
(E) The
requirement and design for a vegetative cap system shall be determined as
follows:
(1) The owner or operator of a
facility shall be required to construct a vegetative cap system as specified by
paragraph (G)(2)(b) of this rule where an area of the facility is filled with
debris to final grade as of September 30, 1996, and where no dense vegetation
has been established in the area and the area remains an inactive licensed
disposal area for the remaining life of the facility.
(2) The owner or operator of a facility shall
not be required to construct any cap system where an area of the facility is
filled with debris to final grade but where dense vegetation has been
established in the area as of September 30, 1996, and the area remains an
inactive licensed disposal area for the remaining life of the
facility.
(F) The
facility construction design plan. The
facility construction design plan, which
shall include the liner and leachate collection system designs,
as applicable, shall be signed and sealed by a
professional engineer registered in Ohio. Drawings, calculations and narrative
shall appear on plan sheets with minimum dimensions of twenty-four inches by
thirty-six inches. If narrative is necessary to explain the drawings or
calculations, the narrative shall appear with the drawing or calculation on the
plan sheet. The facility construction
design plan shall consist of the following:
(1) Cover sheet. A detail engineering plan
cover sheet, to be numbered sheet 1, containing the following information, as applicable :
(a)
The name of the facility and co-located processing
facility .
(b) The precise
geographic location and boundaries of the facility and
co-located processing facility,
to
be
each shown on a
7-1/2 minute USGS topographic
road map with a scale of one
inch equals no greater than one mile .
(c) The name and address of the
operator of the facility and co-located processing facility operator.
(d) The name and address of the owner of the
land to be used for the facility and co-located
processing facility .
(e) The
name and address of the professional engineer who prepared the plans.
(2) Facility environs. Plan
drawings shall show the following items
listed in paragraphs (F)(2)(b) to (F)(2)(d) of this
rule that are located within two hundred feet of either the limits of debris placement
or the horizontal limits of construction and demolition
debris processing, unless otherwise specified in this paragraph. The
items shall be illustrated on a series of plan drawings numbered consecutively:
2A, 2B, 2C, etc. All items specified in an individual subheading shall be shown
on the same plan drawing (unless specified otherwise). An individual plan
drawing may contain information specified in more than one individual
subheading. A scale of one inch equals no greater than two hundred feet shall
be used.
(a) All plan drawings required by
paragraph (F)(2) of this rule shall include those
items specified as follows
the following :
(i) The facility boundary line of all land
owned or leased for the facility and, if applicable,
the processing facility boundary for the co-located processing facility
as certified by a professional surveyor registered in
Ohio .
(ii) The limits of
debris placement, both proposed and emplaced, if applicable. Emplaced limits of
debris placement can be determined by surveys. If a facility does not have
survey results, the owner or operator shall provide justification of the limits
shown in the facility construction design
plan.
(iii) All public roads,
access roads, railroads, and man-made structures,
for informational purposes only.
(iv) Existing topography showing vegetation,
streams, swamps
wetlands , lakes, springs, and other surface waters,
with a contour interval no greater than five feet,
for informational purposes only.
(v) The north arrow, for informational
purposes only.
(vi)
The horizontal limits of construction and demolition
debris processing.
(b) The location of all existing or proposed
maintenance buildings, weighing facilities, storage buildings, and other
structures associated with
within the facility boundary .
(c) All oil wells and gas wells. If any oil
wells or gas wells are identified in accordance with this paragraph, a letter
from the Ohio department of natural resources or other appropriate agency
verifying type, location, depth, and status shall be included.
Any oil
Oil
wells and gas wells within the proposed limits of debris placement
or the horizontal limits of construction and demolition
debris processing shall be properly plugged and abandoned in accordance
with Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code.
(d)
For a co-located
processing facility, all occupied dwellings within five hundred feet of the
horizontal limits of construction and demolition debris processing, and all
perennial streams and category 3 wetlands within one hundred feet of the
horizontal limits of construction and demolition debris
processing.
(3)
The facility. Plan drawings for the entire facility showing the grades of the
following items shall be on plan drawings numbered consecutively 3a, 3b, 3c,
etc. The scale on these drawings shall be one inch equals no greater than two
hundred feet and contour intervals shall be no greater than five feet.
(a) The horizontal and vertical limits of
excavation.
(b) The horizontal
limits and top and bottom elevations of the recompacted soil liner.
(c) The top elevation of the drainage layer,
and if a pipe network is proposed, the pipe inverts and layout of the leachate
collection system.
(d) The location
of any leachate collection system appurtenances outside the limits of debris
placement.
(e) The horizontal
limits and bottom elevations of debris placement, both emplaced, if applicable,
and proposed.
(f) The location of
all existing or proposed fencing, gates, and natural or other screening on the
site (may be shown on an aerial photograph).
(g) The location of ground water control
structures, if any.
(h) The
location of borings used for the site hydrogeology investigation required in
paragraph (C)(5) of rule
3745-400-09
of the Administrative Code.
(i) The
location of all permanent survey marks. Construction specifications for survey
marks are as follows:
(i) The facility shall
have at least three permanent survey marks installed on separate sides of the
facility within easy access to the limits of debris placement.
(ii) Survey marks shall be referenced
horizontally to the 1927 "North American
Datum
datum ," 1983 "North
American Datum," or "State Plane Coordinate
System"
state plane coordinate system and
vertically to the 1929 or 1988 "North
American Vertical Sea Level Datum"
vertical sea level datum as identified
on the 7-1/2 minute series quadrangle sheets
published by the United States
geological
national geodetic
survey.
(iii) Survey marks shall be
at least as stable as a poured concrete monument ten inches in diameter
installed to a depth of forty-two inches below the ground surface. Each
constructed survey mark shall include a corrosion resistant metallic disk which
indicates horizontal and vertical coordinates of the survey mark and shall
contain a magnet or ferromagnetic rod to allow identification through magnetic
detection methods.
(iv) Survey
control standards for the survey marks shall be in accordance with the
following:
(a) For the first facility survey
mark established from the known control point, minimum horizontal distance
accuracy shall be one foot horizontal to two thousand five hundred feet
horizontal.
(b) For each facility
survey mark established from the first facility survey mark, minimum horizontal
distance accuracy shall be one foot horizontal to five thousand feet
horizontal.
(c) For the first
facility survey mark established from the known control point and for each
facility survey mark established from the first facility survey mark, minimum
vertical accuracy shall be one inch vertical to five thousand feet
horizontal.
(4) Cross sections. Cross sections of the
facility at an interval no greater than every three hundred feet of length and
width, and clearly showing the horizontal and vertical scales used, shall show
the following items on plan drawings numbered consecutively 4a, 4b, 4c, etc.:
(a) Existing topography, for informational
purposes only.
(b) The top of the
uppermost aquifer system, if the owner or operator meets the criteria of
paragraph (C)(1)(a) of this rule or is pursuing compliance with the provisions
of paragraph (F)(5)(a) of this rule. The demonstration of the thickness and
hydraulic conductivity of the in situ geologic material shall be based on the
borings used for the site hydrogeology investigation required by paragraph
(C)(5) of rule
3745-400-09
of the Administrative Code, shall be shown on the cross sections, and shall
include the following:
(i) Logs of the
applicable borings showing the stratigraphic units from the ground surface to
ten feet below the bottom of the facility.
(ii) The thickness and hydraulic conductivity
measurements made of the stratigraphic units.
(iii) The thickness of any geologic material
added to establish the isolation distances cited in rule
3745-400-09
of the Administrative Code.
(c) The horizontal and vertical limits of
excavation, for informational purposes only.
(d) The bottom limits of the liner system, if
required.
(e) The bottom limits of
the leachate collection system.
(f)
The horizontal limits and top and bottom elevations of debris
placement.
(g) Final grade
including cap system.
(5) Detail drawings. The following detail
drawings shall be on plan drawings numbered consecutively 5a, 5b, 5c, etc.:
(a) The recompacted soil liner, if required.
The recompacted soil liner shall, at a minimum include the following:
(i) Be constructed and compacted to a
thickness of twenty-four inches using loose lifts eight inches thick or
less.
(ii) Achieve a maximum
permeability of 1 x 10-6 cm/sec for each lift of the
recompacted soil liner.
(iii) Not
be comprised of solid waste or construction and demolition debris.
(iv) Be placed on the bottom and the exterior
excavated sides of the limits of debris placement.
(v) Be constructed on a prepared smooth
surface that shall do the following:
(a) Be
able to bear the weight of the facility and its construction and operations
without causing or allowing a failure of the liner to occur through
settling.
(b) Be free of debris,
foreign material, and deleterious material.
(b) Added geologic material, if utilized. The
added geologic material used to establish isolation distances cited in rule
3745-400-09
of the Administrative Code shall at a minimum include the following:
(i) Be constructed and compacted using loose
lifts eight inches thick or less.
(ii) Achieve a maximum permeability of 1 x
10-6 cm/sec for each lift of geologic
material.
(iii) Be able to bear the
weight of the facility and its construction and operations without causing or
allowing a failure to occur through settling.
(iv) Be free of solid waste, debris, foreign
material, and deleterious material.
(c) All leachate collection system elements.
The leachate collection system shall at a minimum do the following:
(i) Be designed to collect leachate within
the limits of debris placement.
(ii) Be designed to be capable of maintaining
less than a one foot depth of leachate over the in situ or added geologic
material or constructed liner, excluding the leachate sump collection
points.
(iii) Be constructed on a
prepared smooth surface that shall include the following:
(a) Have a minimum slope of two per
cent.
(b) Be able to bear the
weight of the facility and its construction and operations without causing or
allowing a failure of the leachate collection system to occur through settling.
[Comment: A recompacted soil liner or compacted isolation material meets this requirement.]
(c) Be free of debris, foreign material, and
deleterious material.
(iv) Be constructed of a drainage medium that
shall provide a permeability no less than 1 x 10-3
cm/sec. The medium may consist of suitable select debris or other suitable
waste materials and shall be at least one foot thick.
[Comment: "Other suitable waste materials" refers to drainage materials such as nontoxic spent foundry sand, nontoxic bottom ash, nontoxic slag, and shredded tires.]
(v) Be designed to prevent crushing of, or
damage to, any of its components.
(vi) Be designed to function without
clogging.
(vii) If a pipe network
is proposed, designed with access for cleaning and inspection devices and with
pipe lengths not exceeding the capabilities of the cleaning and inspection
devices.
[Comment: For safety reasons, manholes or pipes large enough for human entry are not recommended.]
(viii) Be designed to provide access for
obtaining leachate samples for testing of leachate quality and for determining
the leachate head.
(ix) Be designed
to be capable of conveying leachate outside the limits of debris placement for
treatment and discharge in accordance with Chapter 6111. (water pollution
control) of the Revised Code.
(x)
If storage of leachate outside of the limits of debris placement is proposed,
include a storage containment designed to be no less protective of the
environment than the facility.
(xi)
Be constructed and certified in phases, if necessary, so as to stay immediately
ahead of the working face.
[Comment: Leachate recirculation may be an acceptable practice, but specific details for operation of the system must be approved by the licensing authority.]
(d) Any barrier layer located where the
geologic material between the uppermost aquifer and the previously placed
debris is insufficient to meet the requirements of paragraph (A)(1)(a) of rule
3745-400-09
of the Administrative Code. A soil barrier layer shall be utilized to impede
the infiltration of leachate into placed debris and meet the requirements of
paragraph (A)(1)(b) of rule 3745-400-09 of the Administrative Code. The soil
barrier layer shall at a minimum include the following:
(i) Be constructed on the interior slopes of
already placed debris.
[Comment: A cap system is utilized to cover the exterior slopes
of placed debris. "Placed debris" includes debris placed during the liner
phase-in period fora
(ii) Be constructed and compacted to a
minimum thickness of twenty-four inches using loose lifts eight inches thick or
less.
(iii) Achieve a maximum
permeability of 1 x 10-6 cm/sec for each lift of
geologic material.
(iv) Be free of
solid waste, debris, foreign material, and deleterious material.
(v) Be constructed on a subbase that shall
include the following:
(a) Be comprised of a
cohesive soil.
(b) Be one foot
thick if placed on a filter capable of retaining the subbase soil or be two
feet thick if not placed on such a filter.
(c) Have a smooth surface and be free of
debris and deleterious material.
(d) Be placed on a prepared surface or debris
that has been smoothed such that irregularities do not exceed six
inches.
(vi) Be sloped
such that ponding of leachate on the barrier layer shall not occur.
[Comment: The detail drawings for a barrier layer are part of the facility design plan. However, plan drawings or design drawings for a barrier layer are part of the debris placement plan required by rule 3745-37-02 of the Administrative Code because of the uncertainty of placed debris elevations and barrier layer location until the time of construction. Construction certification is required for the barrier layer in accordance with paragraph (A)(2) of rule 3745-400-08 of the Administrative Code.]
(e) Permanent ground water control
structures, if any. Any permanent ground water control structures shall
adequately control ground water infiltration through the use of non-mechanical
means such as impermeable barriers or permeable drainage structures. However,
no permanent ground-water control structures may be used to dewater an aquifer
system.
(f)
For a co-located processing facility, the following:
(i)
The location,
boundaries, maximum dimensions, and composition of all existing and proposed
piles of mixed C&DD.
(ii)
The location of all existing and proposed fencing,
gates, natural or other screening, and visual barriers, if applicable, as
specified in rule
3745-400-11
of the Administrative Code.
(iii)
The location
and design of surface water drainage and sediment control structures designed
in accordance with paragraph (F)(6) of this rule.
(iv)
Working
surfaces.
(6) Calculations. A section of the
facility construction design plan, on plan
drawings numbered consecutively 6a, 6b, 6c, etc., shall include the following
design calculations with references to equations used, showing site specific
input and assumptions:
(c)(d) Any other relevant
calculations.
(a) The volume of the
facility in cubic yards and anticipated life in years, for informational
purposes only.
(b) Leachate
collection system calculations.
(c)
For a co-located processing facility, the
following:
(i)
The maximum rate of processing in cubic yards per
day.
(ii)
The maximum volume in cubic yards of mixed construction
and demolition debris that may accumulate at any time.
(iii)
Calculations
for surface water drainage and sediment control structures in accordance with
Ohio environmental protection agency "Rainwater and Land Development
Manual."
(G) The final cap system design plan. The
final cap system design plan shall be signed and sealed by a professional
engineer registered in Ohio. Drawings, calculations and narrative shall appear
on plan sheets with minimum dimensions of twenty-four inches by thirty-six
inches. If narrative is necessary to explain the drawings or calculations, the
narrative shall appear with the drawing or calculation on the plan sheet. The
final cap system design plan shall consist of the following:
(1) The facility. Plan drawings for the
entire facility showing the grades of the following items shall be on plan
drawings numbered consecutively 7a, 7b, 7c, etc. The scale on these drawings
shall be one inch equals no greater than two hundred feet and contour intervals
shall be no greater than five feet. Facility plan drawings shall contain the
following information:
(a) Final grade of the
limits of debris placement.
(b)
Final grade including cap system and surface drainage structures.
(c) Designation of the required cap system
types within the limits of debris placement. This designation shall state
"standard cap system," in accordance with paragraph (D) of this rule;
"vegetative cap system," in accordance with paragraph (E)(1) of this rule; and
"no cap system required," in accordance with paragraph (E)(2) of this
rule.
(d) Planned end use, for
informational purposes only.
(2) Detail drawings. The following detail
drawings shall be on plan drawings numbered consecutively 8a, 8b, 8c, etc.:
(a) Standard cap system. The construction and
performance specifications of a standard cap system are as follows:
(i) First, a soil layer of well compacted,
cohesive soil with a minimum recompacted thickness of eighteen inches. The soil
shall meet the following criteria:
(a) The
maximum soil particle size shall be six inches.
(b) At least ninety five per cent of the soil
particles, by volume, shall pass the three inch sieve.
(c) At least seventy five per cent of the
soil particles, by volume, shall pass the number four sieve.
(d) The soil shall meet either of the
following specifications:
(i) At least fifty
per cent of the soil particles, by weight, shall pass the number two hundred
sieve.
(ii) Achieve a maximum
permeability of 1 x 10-6 cm/sec for each lift of the
recompacted soil.
(e)
The soil shall meet either of the following specifications:
(i) Possess plasticity properties lying above
the A-line in the "Unified Soil Classification System" described in ASTM
D-2487.
(ii) Consist of 0.002 inch
or finer clay particles as determined in ASTM D-422 such that these clay
particles shall comprise at least fifteen per cent of the total soil dry mass.
[The text of the incorporated
materials is not included in this rule and are hereby made a part of this rule.
Only the specific version specified in this rule is incorporated. Any amendment
or revision to a referenced document is not incorporated until this rule has
been amended to specify the new version. The materials incorporated by
reference are available as follows:
Specifications of the "American
Society for Testing and Materials" (ASTM). Information and copies may be
obtained by writing to: "ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, P.O. Box
C700, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania 19428-2959." These documents are
available for purchase at http://www.astm.org. As used in this
rule:
ASTM D2487-11 "Standard Practice for
Classification of Soils for Engineering Purposes (Unified Soil Classification
System)," approved 1975, updated 2011.
ASTM D422-63(2007)e1 "Standard Test
Method for Particle-Size Analysis of Soils," approved 1998, updated
2007.
(f) The soil may be an alternative soil type
acceptable to the licensing authority.
(g) The soil shall not be comprised of solid
waste or construction and demolition debris.
(h) The soil shall be compacted using loose
lifts twelve inches thick or less and meet a compaction standard described in
paragraph (C)(5) of rule
3745-400-08
of the Administrative Code.
(ii) Second, a soil layer with minimum
thickness of six inches and of sufficient fertility to support dense
vegetation.
(iii) Third, a complete
and dense perennial vegetative cover of healthy grasses or other vegetation
shall be established and maintained on all exposed final cover.
(iv) The standard cap system shall have a
minimum slope of three per cent and a maximum slope of twenty-five per cent and
shall be graded to eliminate ponding, promote drainage, and minimize
erosion.
(v) Comparable materials
or thicknesses for the standard cap system may be utilized by the owner or
operator if the final cap system specified in this rule is not compatible with
the end use.
(b)
Vegetative cap system. Construction of a vegetative cap system shall at a
minimum include the following:
(i) Consist of
a soil layer with a thickness of six inches and of sufficient fertility to
support dense vegetation.
(ii)
Consist of a complete and dense perennial vegetative cover of healthy grasses
or other vegetation shall be established and maintained on all exposed final
cap.
(iii) Be graded to eliminate
ponding, promote drainage, and minimize erosion.
(iv) Utilize comparable materials or
thicknesses for the vegetative cap system if the final cap system specified in
this rule is not compatible with the end use.
(3) Calculations. A section of the final cap
system design plan, on plan drawings numbered consecutively 9a, 9b, 9c, etc.,
shall include the soil erosion calculations for the cap system under closure
conditions with references to equations used and showing site specific input
and assumptions. The erosion rate is not to exceed five tons per acre per
year.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3714.02
Rule Amplifies: 3714.02
Prior Effective Dates: 09/30/1996, 08/31/2002, 04/17/2015
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