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Ben Hall -8- 22 November 2006 Musco Family Olive Company 16. MRP No. R5-2002-0148 requires, in the second paragraph of Land Application Area Monitoring, the following:. "By 1 October 2002, the Discharger shall install a sufficient number of meters to continuously monitor the flow out of the settling/storage ponds to the land application areas. No wastewater shall be applied without metering. if portable pumps pre used to discharge wastewater to the land application area or a storage pond, additional meters shall be installed at every discharge point." The monthly monitoring reports reviewed state (in the Calculation.Methods note to the BOD and Nitrogen Loading Log Book) that the "GPF [gallons per field] is calculated by multiplying sprinkler minutes by the sprinkler output rating at.our operating pressure...,For. 95 acres, output is approximately 8.5 gpm, for lower acreage output is approximately 4.5 gpm [sic] Sections 95-01, 03, 05, 06, and 19 output is now 4.5 gpm". The Discharger's failure to use meters to measure flow to the application areas, as confirmed during the 12 October 2006 inspection, is a violation of WDRs Order No. R5-2002-0148. 17. WDRs Order No. R5-2002-0148 includes Provision GA, which requires compliance with Standard Provisions and Reporting Requirements for Waste Discharge Requirements, dated 1 March 1991 (Standard Provisions). - Standard Provision B.1 states, in part, the following: "In the event the discharger does not comply or will be unable to comply with any prohibition or.limitation of this Order for any reason, the discharger shall notify the Board by telephone...as soon as it or its agents have knowledge of such noncompliance or potential for noncompliance, and shall confirm this notification in writing within two weeks. The written notification shall state the nature, time and cause of noncompliance, and shall include a timetable for corrective actions." Written and verbal notification of Regional Water Board staff regarding violations has, with the exception of the monthly monitoring report transmittal letters, generally not occurred for at least the period reviewed. Failure to notify Regional Water Board staff in accordance with Standard Provision GA is a violation of WDRs Order No. R5-2002-0148. 18. Cleanup and Abatement Order No. R5-2002-0149 includes Item 4, which states that "[b]y 6 September 2004, the Discharger shall comply with all aspects of WDRs Order No. R5-2002-0148." As detailed above, the Discharger is in violation of WDRs Order No. R5-2002-0148 and is, therefore, also in violation of Cleanup and Abatement Order No. R5-2002-0149. While we appreciate, and are in the process of reviewing, Musco's long-term conceptual compliance plan (dated 13 September 2006), short-term remedies are available for many of the violations cited above. Therefore, please submit a technical report to this office by 22 December 2006 addressing all of the above violations that are not explicitly considered in the long-term conceptual compliance plan. The report should include an explanation of the