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y Masco Olive Products Site Inst cion 3 2 November 2001 14. Construction of the storage pond has not been initiated. According to Ben Hall construction is delayed by regulatory review. The Fish and Wildlife Service is requiring compensation. (It is noted that the F&WS requires compensation for the grading already completed; there is an additional issue regarding the planned storage pond). 15. The storage pond design is reportedly completed and has been approved by the Division of Dam Safety. A Technical Advisory Committee hearing is planned for 14 November 2001 to address the issue. 16. Ben Hall stated the land application areas have been disced as required by the Winter Contingency Plan. However, observation of the land application areas indicated less than half of the area had been disced, and in the upper application area almost none of the area had been disced. 17. Ben Hall stated that the 95 acre land application area was planted with sorghum and a portion of 10 acres was planted with perennial grass, sudan grass was planted on 15 acres in the southeast corner, oats had been planted on the lower parcel. (It was noted upon viewing the land application areas that the sorghum, perennial grass,nor the oats were observable). A crop reported to be sudan grass was observed in two of the checks. Each of the checks was flooded with strongly discolored and odiferous water. 1 S. Recommendations to improve cropping presented in the Discharger's technical reports required by the C&A Order(i.e. adding organic material to soil or addition of fertilizer to improve crop growth)were not implemented and according to Ben Hall, fertilizer will be added to irrigation water in the future but there is no schedule to implement the recommendations. None of the recommended boron plant tissue tests have been performed. Staff are concerned that the addition of fertilizer to the process wastewater will result in fertilizer being discharged to the creek. 19. Ben Hall stated that to control off-site flow of wastewater, two bermed areas were constructed in natural drainage areas downstream of the tank farm. Portable diesel powered pumps pumped tailwater that accumulated behind the berms.to the checks. Ben Hall is considering constructing a permanent pumping station at the downstream berm area. California Department of Fish and Game(DFG) contacted the Regional Board and informed staff that the berms are illegal as is the transportation of wastewater in natural drainage courses. 20. Too much wastewater was added to the checks resulting in standing wastewater and odiferous conditions. The Regional Board received odor complaints on 22 October 2001 and 19 November 2001. i 21. The one million gallon storage pond has been routinely overflowing for the past 18 months. Although this is an on-going problem, the Discharger apparently has no plans to correct the situation. Field inspection of the pond indicated the Discharger has installed an overflow pipe ifrom the'pond to the natural drainage nearby. Although required to do so by the WDRs, the Discharger has failed to report the overflows. 22. Three influent pipes were observed at the one million gallon storage pond. Ben Hall was unable to identify the source of the wastewater being discharged. Two of the three pipes were observed discharging wastewater. Considerable floating matter and a strong odor was noted at the pond. i 23. At the above ground storage tanks containing olives, a practice known as "recirculating the tank" was observed. The practice stirs the acetic acid in the storage tanks resulting in foaming of wastewater out the top of the tank. The wastewater is spilled onto the concrete pad where it is CAftojea Files\SitecLN UnsMl 10201.dw i