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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION ORDER NO. 5-01-055 WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS FOR TRI VALLEY GROWERS PLANT NO. 4 STOCKTON, SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region (hereafter Board), finds that: 1. Tri Valley Growers submitted a Report of Waste Discharge (RWD) dated 16 June 2000 for land application of industrial wastewater. Additional information was submitted on 21 August 2000 and 27 October 2000. Tri Valley Growers owned the property where the processing plant and land application areas are located. 2. The facility is at 3200 East Eight Mile Road, Stockton, San Joaquin County. The property is in Section 1, T2S, R6E, MDB&M, as shown on Attachment A,which is attached hereto and made part of the Order by reference. The facility and land application areas are located on Assessor Parcel Numbers 092-040-03, -04, -05, -06, -07, -11, -12, -13, -16, and 092-070-01. 3. The land application areas are adjacent to the processing facility and consist of approximately 308 acres. The processing facility is located on an additional 80 acres. Both locations are presented on Attachment B, which is attached hereto and made part of the Order by reference. 4. Surrounding land uses are primarily agricultural, industrial, and residential. Bear Creek, a channelized creek with a levee, crosses the property from the northeast to the west. 5. Order No. 95-167, adopted by the Board on 23 June 1995, prescribes requirements for Tri Valley Growers. The Discharger is considering the sale of 111 acres of land application area. As a result of considering the sale of the property, the Discharger was required to submit a RWD and the WDRs are being updated. 6. Tri Valley Growers operated the food processing plants and land application areas for many years. However, Tri Valley Growers declared bankruptcy in 2000, and portions of its operations are in the process of being sold. 7. The Discharger processes tomatoes and cherries. Tomatoes are washed, sorted, chopped, processed through evaporators, cooked, and canned or placed into bags. Tomatoes are processed when fresh and are also reprocessed from temporary storage bags into marketable products. Cherries are stemmed, sized, pitted, sliced, brined, and dyed. Cherries are not canned on-site. 8. The Discharger has reported that the processing facility will be decommissioned or sold by the end of 2001. The facility will not process fresh tomatoes in 2001. Reprocessing of bagged tomatoes and processing of cherries will be performed in 2001. Once the stockpiled materials are expended, it is anticipated that the facility will no longer process tomatoes or cherries.