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California egional Water Quality Vontrol Board <br /> Central Valley Region <br /> Steven T.Butler,Chair (a <br /> Winston H.Hickox Gray Davis <br /> Secretaryfor Sacramento Main Office"': "i.R Governor <br /> Environmental Internet Address: http://www.swrcb.c&gov/--rwgcb5 <br /> Protection 3443 Routier Road,Suite A,Sacramento,California 95827-3003 <br /> Phone(916)255-3000•FAX(916)255-3015 <br /> 16 July 1999 <br /> Ms. Jill Jefferson <br /> Kinder Morgan Energy Partners <br /> 1100 Town and Country Road <br /> Orange, California 92868 <br /> REQUIREMENT FOR DOCUMENTS PURSUANT TO <br /> WATER CODE SECTION 13267 <br /> KINDER MORGAN ENERGY PARTNERS <br /> HOLT PETROLEUM RELEASE SITE, SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> Board staff have recently reviewed the following reports prepared for Kinder Morgan Energy Partners' <br /> (KMEP) Holt petroleum release site: <br /> • NPDES Monitoring Report, First Quarter 1999, dated 15 April 1999; <br /> • First Quarter 1999 Groundwater Monitoring Report, dated 26 April 1999 and; <br /> • Combined Annual Groundwater Monitoring Report, Results of Further Investigation and <br /> Recommendations for Additional Work, dated 12 May 1999. <br /> We have the following comments on these documents. <br /> 1. The treatment system is regulated under the General Order for Discharge of Groundwater from <br /> Cleanup of Petroleum Fuel Pollution to Surface Waters, NPDES No. CA0082929. This General <br /> Order requires that influent and effluent samples be collected and analyzed for constituents of <br /> concern that may adversely affect the beneficial uses of the receiving water, Trapper Slough. In a <br /> Notice of Violation dated 15 October 1998, KMEP was cited for effluent violations. We consider <br /> these effluent violations to be a serious matter. Further violations will likely result in my <br /> recommendation for an administrative civil liability. The Notice of Violation letter also directed <br /> KMEP to analyze for methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in the influent, effluent and receiving <br /> water samples. This monitoring is necessary because MTBE usually breaks through granulated <br /> activated carbon before other petroleum chemicals, and receiving water monitoring has routinely <br /> California Environmental Protection Agency <br /> 0 Recycled Paper <br />