About This Webpage — This webpage provides information about the Division of Environmental Protection's (NDEP) permitting process to construct and operate a Class I municipal solid waste landfill facility at the Jungo disposal site located in Humboldt County, Nevada. The Jungo Disposal Site is located approximately 30 miles west of Winnemucca, Nevada along Jungo Road.
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Overview-Site Summary — The Jungo Disposal Site is located at the southern end of Desert Valley approximately 30 miles west of Winnemucca along the south side of Jungo Road. Regionally, the site is located in an arid, relatively flat, desert basin bound by the Jackson Mountains to the west and northwest, the Antelope Range to the southwest, Alpha Mountain to the south, and the Eugene Mountains to the southeast. The site vicinity is sparsely vegetated with greasewood. The site is located on a 634-acre parcel consisting of Section 7 of Township 35N, Range 33E of the Mount Diablo Baseline and Meridian.

The Jungo Disposal Site is bounded by Union Pacific Railroad property to the northwest and elsewhere by publicly-owned land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The Jungo Disposal Site and surrounding property are zoned M-3 - Open Land Use. The M-3 designation allows for conditional commercial uses, such as landfill disposal operations, provided such uses are approved by the Humboldt Planning Commission (HPC). A Special Use Permit (issued by Humboldt county) in April 2007 permits the site to be developed as a municipal waste disposal site.

Climate and Hydrology — The site is located in an arid region, where precipitation is controlled primarily by the rain-shadow effects imposed by the Sierra Nevada range located 150 miles to the west. The Jackson Mountains located on the west side of Desert Valley, cause a similar orographic effect, but of a lesser magnitude (Berger, 1995). Precipitation results primarily from thunderstorms in the summer, and snow and rain in the winter. The mean annual precipitation is estimated to be approximately 8 inches. The mean annual precipitation in Winnemucca located 30 miles to the east (1897-2006) is 8.3 inches. Three different sources (Western Regional Climate Center; World Climate.com; and Berger, 1995) provide mean annual precipitation values ranging between 7.97 inches to 9.1 inches for a precipitation gauge at the Jungo-Meyers Ranch, located approximately 4 miles west of the Jungo Disposal Site. This precipitation gauge was measured from 1968 to 1986. Temperatures in the summer months occasionally exceed 100o F. Winters are cool with temperatures often below 0oF. Based on data from Rye Patch Reservoir located 14 miles to the south, evaporation from free water sources is approximately 48-inches per year (Cohen, 1965). The prevailing wind direction in Desert Valley is toward the west-southwest. The 25-year, 24-hour storm event is estimated to be 1.62 inches (NOAA, 2006).

Topography and Drainage — The Antelope Range, Alpha Mountain, and Eugene Mountains form the topographic divides at the southern end of the Desert Valley near the general location of the Jungo Disposal Site. The low-points of these topographic divides ranges from approximately 4,250 feet msl to 4,400 msl. The valley floor is relatively flat. At the southern end of the valley, the elevations generally range from 4,180 feet msl to 4,155 feet msl and slope from the southeast to the northwest. At the Jungo Disposal Site, the elevations range from a high of 4,177 feet msl at the southeast corner of the property to a low of 4,172 feet msl at the southwest corner of the property.

Desert Valley is a 1,032-square mile hydrographic sub-area within the Black Rock Desert Region hydrographic basin. Streams from the surrounding mountains are ephemeral and rarely discharge to the valley floor and instead infiltrate through the upper coarse alluvial fans or evaporate (Berger, 1995). Precipitation or snow melt on the valley floor accumulates in localized depressions until it infiltrates or evaporates. At the Jungo Disposal Site, these shallow depressions are on the order of several inches deep. During normal precipitation events, water accumulates in the depressions until it evaporates or infiltrates into the subsurface soils.

In the event of intense storms, it is possible that localized depressions may fill and then sheet flow to the next depressions located to the north or west. This is consistent with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) (2007), which estimates that ponding may occur locally to depths of 6 to 12 inches. Large alkali flats are located in larger depressions that are approximately 2 miles west and north of the Jungo Disposal Site with surface elevations ranging from 4,162 to 4,164 feet msl. These alkali flats are located in an area identified by Berger (1995) as containing hard-pan, or low-permeability clays and silts, which impede infiltration.

Geology — The Desert Valley lies within the Basin and Range Geomorphic Province, which is characterized by northsouth trending uplifted mountain ranges adjacent to down-dropped valleys or basins. Desert Valley is a north-south trending structural basin with a relatively flat valley floor that is approximately 55-miles long and 12-miles wide. Mountain ranges provide topographic boundaries at the edges of the valley floor. The Jungo Disposal Site is located in the southernmost portion of Desert Valley. This end of Desert Valley is bound to the west by the Jackson Mountains, to the southwest by the Antelope Range, and to the east by the Eugene Mountains.

Resource Documents

• October 26, 2011 — Draft Permit Transmittal Letter



• October 17, 2011 — Technical Completion Letter for the Jungo Disposal Site



• June 27, 2011 — Recology Response to NDOW Comments to the Jungo Disposal Site



• April 22, 2011 —NDOW Response to Recology letter of April 13, 2011



• April 13, 2011 — Recology Response to NDOW Comments to the Jungo Disposal Site



• April 04, 2011 — Recology Cover Letter to NDEP Technical Comments



• April 04, 2011 — Golder Response to NDEP Technical Comments



• February 11, 2011 — Response letter to Tom Fransway (see above) from Leo Drozdoff, Director, Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources.



• February 08, 2011 — Letter from Tom Fransway, Humboldt County Commissioner, to Governor Brian Sandoval. The letter concerns the ongoing litigation over the proposed Jungo Landfill as it relates to permitting activities being conducted by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.



• February 07, 2011 — Letter from the Nevada Division of Environmental to Recology Technical Review Comments on Jungo Permit Application (5 pages)



• October 5, 2010 — Letter from the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) to Recology Inc. NDOW's reponse letter to Recology Inc. concerning un-resolved issues at the proposed Jungo landifill site (2 Pages)



• September 27, 2010 — Letter from Recology Inc. to the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) — The letter to NDOW provides response comments to the April 2nd letter that was sent by NDOW to the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection.



• September 27, 2010 — Letter from Recology to NDEP: The letter provides response to comments from May 26, 2010 and August 4, 2010 letter from the NDEP on the Plan of Operations and Report of Design.
  
  
• August 04, 2010 — Letter from NDEP to Recology: The letter provides (1) comments on Jungo Landfill Groundwater Monitoring Plan and (2) Nevada Division of Wildlife Questions and Requests for Information.



• May 26, 2010 — Letter from NDEP to Recology: Review of Volume III Plan of Operations (Plan)



• April 29, 2010 — Letter to NDEP, Submittal of Groundwater Protection Evaluation Plan



• April 19, 2010 — Letter from Recology to NDEP Modifying Liner Design



• February 2010 — Hydrologic Evaluation of the Jungo Area, Southern Desert Valley, Nevada
  USGS Open File Report 2010-1009 - 18 pages



• May 29, 2009 — Response to NDEP Technical Review Comments — Golder Associates



• March 04, 2009 — NDEP Correspondence - First Technical Review of Jungo Landfill Application



• January 15, 2009 — NDEP Completeness Determination Letter



• December 24, 2008

Recology Response to NDEP completeness review


• April 2008 — NDEP Completeness Review of the Jungo Landfill Application

Jungo Landfill Application

• Report of Design

Tables
• Earthwork Balance
• CQA Plan Requirements
• Monitoring Well Construction Details
• Table 3 Measured Groundwater Depth Summary
• Groundwater Monitoring Parameters & Methods
• Closure Cost Post Closure Estimates

Figures [Site Plans, Groundwater Basin Map, borings etc.]
• Figure 1
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• Figure 15
• Appendix - A Summary Boring Logs
• Appendix - B Geotechnical Lab Results
• Appendix - C Historical Groundwater Elevation Study
• Appendix - D Slug Test Date
• Appendix - E Foundation Settlement Calculatio
• Appendix - F Slope Stability Calculations
• Appendix - G Leachate Generation Calculations
• Appendix - H Cover Erosion Calculations
• Appendix - I Post-Closure Settlement Calculations
• Appendix - J Preliminary Surface Water Calculations
• Appendix - K Updated Seismic Design
• Appendix - L Revegetation Plan

• Jungo Drawing 01 - Drawing Index
• Jungo Drawing 02 - Site Plan
• Jungo Drawing 03 - Landfill Base Grading Plan
• Jungo Drawing 03A - Base Grading Plan 1
• Jungo Drawing 03B - Base Grading Plan 2
• Jungo Drawing 03C - Base Grading Plan 3
• Jungo Drawing 03D - Base Grading Plan 4
• Jungo Drawing 03E - Basin Plan
• Jungo Drawing 04 - Liner & LCRS Details
• Jungo Drawing 05 - Final Cover Grading Plan
• Jungo Drawing 05A - Final Cover Grading Plan 1
• Jungo Drawing 05B - Final Cover Grading Plan 2
• Jungo Drawing 05C - Final Cover Grading Plan 3
• Jungo Drawing 05D - Final Cover Grading Plan 4
• Jungo Drawing 06 - Preliminary Landfill Gas Collection Plan
• Jungo Drawing 07 - Surface Water Drainage Plan
• Jungo Drawing 08 - Final Cover Details
• Jungo Drawing 09 - Cross Sections
• Jungo Drawing 10 - Initial Cell Development Plan
• Jungo Drawing 11 - Cell Development Plan - End Of Year 10
• Jungo Drawing 12 - Cell Development Plan - End Of Year 25
• Jungo Drawing 13 - Cell Development Plan - End Of Year 50
• Jungo Drawing 14 - Cell Development Plan - End Of Year 75
• Jungo Drawing 15 - Cell Development Cross Sections 1
• Jungo Drawing 16 - Cell Development Cross Sections 2

• Plan of Operations
• Table 1 Job Discriptions
• Table 2 ISCP Plan Outline
• Site Vicinity Map
• Site Property Map
• Site Facilities Map
• Regional Groundwater Basins
• Base Grading Plan
• Final Cover Grading Plan
• Appendix - A Proof of Ownership
• Trust Agreement
• Appendix - B Site Survey
• Appendix C: Closure and Postclosure Monitoring and Maintenance Plan



• Appendix D: Monitoring Plan
• Figure 1 - groundwater contour map
• Figure 2 - groundwater monitoring map
• Figure 3 - Landfill gas network
• Figure 4 - Landfill gas probe detail
• Appendix E Weed Management Plan

• Summary Design Schematic [5 Pages - 1MB]
• July 29, 2011 — Cover Letter - Groundwater Protection Evaluation Plan
• Groundwater Protection Evaluation Plan [19 Pages]

Jungo —Air Pollution Control Permits Documents

Prevailing wind direction (blowing from) for the Winnemucca area -- data represents the 4 quarters of 2009 and the entire year of 2009 - Click on graphic for an expanded view

  Jungo Landfill Site Photos - Click Photo For Wide Angle View
Photos were taken from Jungo road looking south and west

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