The San Joaquin County Department of Public Works announced that effective March 21, 2020 until further notice, the Lovelace Road Transfer Station just north of Manteca and North County Recycling Center and Landfill are closed except for commercially collected garbage. In response to the “Stay at Home” order issued by San Joaquin County on March 20, 2020, this step was taken to ensure that the Department has sufficient healthy essential staff to continue to landfill the County’s garbage throughout this health emergency. The following are frequently asked questions and answers regarding the landfill closure as submitted by the operators of the San Joaquin county landfills: