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CLEANUP AND ABATEMENT ORDER NO. -3- FOR DALLAS CORP. , DBA OVERHEAD/LODI DOOR COMPANY LODI , SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY toxic than trivalent chromium. Sample results have shown that up to 100 percent of the total chromium in the samples is hexavalent. 16. The Discharger alleges that further monitoring does not serve any purpose and that concentrations do not warrant ground water cleanup. After accumulating six years of data, the Discharger has made several requests to discontinue ground water monitoring and destroy the monitoring wells. 17. Wells downgradient from the former surface impoundment have chromium �, concentrations above the MCL and the extent of the plume has not been [D: defined. 18. There are at least ten wells for domestic purposes within a 1/2 mile radius of the facility. Of these, six are generally downgradient of the Discharger. D 19. Staff collected a water sample from a domestic well within one-half mile downgradient of the facility on 26 February 1991. The sample contained 1 µg/l total chromium. The depth of the well and screen interval is unknown. 20. Section 13304(a) of the California Water Code provides that "Any person who has discharged or discharges into the waters of this state in violation of any waste discharge requirement or other order or prohibition issued by a regional board, or who has caused or permitted, causes or permits, or threatens to cause or permit any waste to be discharge or deposited where it is, or probably will be, discharged into the waters of the state and creates, or threatens to create, a condition of pollution or nuisance, C shall upon order of the regional board cleanup such waste or abate the effects thereof or, in the case of threatened pollution or nuisance, take other necessary remedial action. " 21. In conducting an investigation of the quality of any waters of the state within its region, the regional board may require that any person discharging or proposing to discharge waste within its region or any citizen or domiciliary, or political agency or entity of this state discharging or proposing to discharge waste outside its region that could affect the quality of waters within its region shall furnish, under penalty of perjury, those technical or monitoring program reports as the board may specify. The burden, including costs, of those reports shall bear a reasonable relationship to the need for the report and the benefits to be obtained from the reports. (Water Code, Section 13267) 22. Issuance of this Order is exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code, Section 21000, et seq. ) , in accordance with Section 15321(a) (2) , Title 14, California Code of Regulations.