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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD
<br /> CENTRAL VALLEY REGION
<br /> ORDER NO. R5-2006-0018
<br /> RESCINDING VARIOUS WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS
<br /> The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, finds that the Board
<br /> adopted the following Orders and Resolutions,which are no longer applicable for the reasons shown:
<br /> Resolution No. 68-222, adopted 11 April 1968,prescribes requirements for the discharge of crude oil
<br /> production wastewater to sumps for Chester F. Dolley at various leases in T30S and T3 IS, R28E and
<br /> R29E, MDB&M, Mountain View Oil Field, Kern County. Atlantic Oil Company currently owns and
<br /> operates the leases. Inspections confirmed that all lease sumps have been closed. Production
<br /> wastewater is directed to either: 1) lease injection wells for disposal under permit by the California
<br /> Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources, or 2)to the Valley Waste Disposal site at the Race
<br /> Track Hills regulated by a different order.
<br /> Order No. 94-317, adopted on 28 October 1994,prescribes requirements for the First Assembly of God
<br /> Church wastewater treatment and disposal facility. As of July 2003, the wastewater flows were sent to
<br /> the El Dorado Irrigation District collection system and the wastewater treatment plant was
<br /> decommissioned. During December 2005, final closure of the wastewater pond was reported. The
<br /> Discharger has requested a rescission of the WDRs.
<br /> Order No. 99-110 (NPDES No. CA0084531), adopted 28 July 1999 for Cedar Point Properties, Inc.,
<br /> prescribes requirements for the discharge of acid mine drainage from Walker Mine in Plumas County. In
<br /> 2004, Cedar Point Properties suspended its corporate status. The Attorney General, acting on behalf of
<br /> the Regional Board, obtained a stipulated judgment on Daniel Kennedy, owner of Cedar Point Properties
<br /> Inc.,which settled the Regional Board's litigation against Kennedy and dismissed additional action
<br /> against him. Cedar Point Properties, Inc. no longer exists as an entity that can be regulated by Order No.
<br /> 99-110. Therefore, Order No. 99-110 should be rescinded.
<br /> Order No. 5-01-132 (NPDES No. CA0081841) adopted on 14 June 2001, prescribes requirements for
<br /> discharge of treated produced water from New Chaparral, Inc.'s, oil production facility at the Poso USL
<br /> oil lease in the Poso Creek oil field, Kern County, to an unnamed ephemeral stream, tributary to Poso
<br /> Creek, in Section 14 T27S, R27E,MDB&M. On 10 September 2004, the Regional Board adopted
<br /> Order No. R5-2004-0127,which transferred ownership of the facility at the Poso USL oil lease from
<br /> New Chaparral, Inc., to Core Energy, LLC (hereafter Discharger). On 18 October 2005,the Discharger
<br /> submitted a written request to rescind Order No. 5-01-132. The Discharger states that discharge to the
<br /> ephemeral stream ceased in June 2005 and that produced water is now disposed of through deep well
<br /> injection. Deep well injection of produced water is regulated by the Division of Oil,Gas, and
<br /> Geothermal Resources. An inspection performed by a Regional Board contractor on 19 October 2005
<br /> confirmed that discharge to the ephemeral stream has ceased.
<br /> Order No. R5-2003-0019, adopted 31 January 2003, prescribes requirements for the Western Hills
<br /> Water District wastewater treatment plant(WWTP) and its discharge of 0.1 mgd of disinfected
<br /> secondary-treated effluent to a lined storage reservoir and 30-acre parcel of land in Section 19, T4S,
<br /> R7E, MDB&M. The WWTP was to serve the Diablo Grande residential development in western
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