Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 401 - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT CABINET - DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Chapter 48 - Standards for Solid Waste Facilities › Section 401 KAR 48:300 - Surface and groundwater monitoring and corrective action

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 224.01, 224.10, 224.40, 224.43, 224.70, 40
				C.F.R. Parts 257, 258,
				302.4
				Appendix A
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS Chapter 224 requires
				the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the treatment,
				management, processing or disposal of wastes.
				KRS
				224.40-305 requires that persons engaging in
				the management, processing or disposal of waste obtain a permit. This chapter
				establishes the minimum technical standards for solid waste sites or
				facilities. This administrative regulation sets forth the standards for
				groundwater monitoring and corrective action.
Section 1. Applicability. The requirements of
			 this administrative regulation apply to owners and operators of contained,
			 construction/demolition, and residual landfills, Class II and Class III
			 land-farming facilities, other solid waste sites or facilities at which the
			 cabinet determines groundwater monitoring shall be required and solid waste
			 sites or facilities required to accomplish corrective action as a result of
			 documented groundwater contamination. Sections 1 through 7 of this
			 administrative regulation do not apply to landfarming facilities permitted
			 pursuant to
			 401 KAR
			 48:200. Land-farming facilities required to accomplish
			 corrective action shall comply with Section 8 of this administrative
			 regulation. The owner or operator shall satisfy the requirements of this
			 administrative regulation for all wastes (or constituents thereof) contained in
			 waste management units at the facility regardless of the time at which waste
			 was placed in such unit. Designs, reports, and plans constituting the public
			 practice of geology, as defined at
			 KRS
			 322A.010, shall be developed by a person
			 registered pursuant to KRS Chapter 322A, except as provided for by
			 KRS
			 322A.080.
Section 2. Surface Water Monitoring Plan. A
			 surface water monitoring plan as required in Section 5 of
			 401
			 KAR 47:190 shall include:
(1) Documentation that the applicant
			 currently holds or has applied for a KPDES permit for all structures that shall
			 be used to control storm water run-off and all point source
			 discharges.
(2) The location of
			 surface water monitoring points identified on the engineering plans. The
			 surface water monitoring points shall be located such that the sampling shall
			 characterize the quality of water unaffected by the landfills and shall be
			 located such that the sampling shall determine if water leaving the landfill in
			 surface drainage is contaminated with leachate. Sampling protocol shall measure
			 surface water under base flow conditions that continues to drain after
			 storm-induced surface run-off has ceased.
(3) A schedule and list of analytical
			 parameters for the quarterly surface water sampling program. The parameters to
			 be analyzed for the water samples shall include at a minimum: chlorides,
			 sulfate, iron, sodium, total organic carbon or biochemical oxygen demand,
			 chemical oxygen demand, specific conductance, total suspended solids, total
			 dissolved solids, total solids and pH.
(4) A form to record the results of the
			 surface water sample analyses.
(5)
			 Prior to the disturbance of any areas proposed for development in a landfill
			 permit application, the owner shall analyze samples of the surface water points
			 and submit the results to the cabinet. The sampling shall include a minimum of
			 two (2) samples collected at no less than thirty (30) day intervals and shall
			 be sufficient to characterize the existing surface water quality.