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<vr • 1, `t T AT,. CHRISTINE O GREGOIRE :r, n? Director ti! ,aa-` ( !t o . (.16 STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY 4350-150th Ave. NE. • Redmond, Washington 98052-5301 • (2L ) 8h7-7(X)0 December 1, 1989 Mr. Bert Brainard, Director Whatcom County Environmental Health Post Office Box 935 Bellingham, Washington 98225 Dear Mr. Brainard: This letter is a follow up of our telephone conversation on November 30, 1989, in response to an article in the November 20, 1989, Bellingham Herald, concerning a proposed demolition dump near Hemmi Road. You were reported to have said that "because demolition debris landfills are not classified in the same way as municipal waste dumps such as the Cedarville landfill , wells would be allowed within 1,000 feet." I have enclosed a copy of the Minimum Standards for Construction and Maintenance of Wells Chapter 173-160 WAC. WAC 173-160-205(2) states, "wells shall not be located within one thousand feet of solid waste landfills." I have checked with our program staff in Olympia and we intend to enforce this regulation. Solid waste is defined in Chapter 173-304-100(73) WAC Minimum Functional Standards for Solid Waste Handling, and which our program has adopted, as follows: Solid waste means all putrescible and nonputrescible solid and semisolid wastes including, but not limited to, garbage, rubbish, ashes , industrial wastes , swill , demolition and construction wastes, abandoned vehicles or parts thereof, and discarded commodities. I understand the confusion concerning proximity of demolition waste sites to wells is WAC 173-304-461(2) exemption of inert and demolition waste landfills to the locational standards of WAC 173-304-130(2) (b) (iii ) which states: No facility' s active area shall be located closer than one thousand feet to a down-gradient drinking water supply well , in use and existing at the time of the county' s adoption of the comprehensive solid waste management plan unless the owner or operator can show that the active area is no less than ninety days travel time hydraulically to the nearest down- gradient drinking water supply well in the uppermost useable aquifer.