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CLEANUP AND ABATEMENT ORDER NO. 98-721 -2- JOE J.MACHADO,LILLIAN E. MACHADO, AND BRUCE XrvIBROUGH JOANNE IQRvIBROUGH •LUCKY J DAIRY SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY Grant Line Road and Hansen Road, over a mile from where the discharge had commenced at the retention pond, An EC of 3100 µmhos/cm was noted for the wastewater discharging into the ditch adjacent to the dairy. Wastewater flowing in the roadside ditch at Hansen Road had an EC reading of', 3300 pmhos/cm. Flow being discharged along Grant Line Road was estimated at approximately 30 gallons per minute over a period of six days. The inspection also revealed corral runoff had discharged into the ditch along Patterson Pass Road. The Dairy is located at the intersection of Grant, Line Road and Patterson Pass Road. 7. On 3 February 1997, a Notice of Violation was issued to the Lucky J Dairy in response the inspection conducted in January 1997. 8. On 18 February 1998,Regional Board Staff conducted another inspection in response to a complaint that Lucky J Dairy was discharging wastewater off property. Wastewater was first observed in the: roadside ditch along Grant Line Road, more than a mile away from the Dairy. At the Dairy, the inspection revealed wastewater being discharged from the retention pond adjacent to Grant Line Road. There was no freeboard in the pond and there was evidence that the pond had overflowed. Seeps from rodents holes were also evident. There was also corral runoff flowing into the ditch along Patterson Pass Road. An EC reading of 3900 gmhos/cm was taken at the intersection of Grant Line and Patterson Pass Road where the two ditches converge. 9. A Notice of Violation was issued to Lucky J Dairy on 9 April 1998 in response discharge of waste t surface waters observed during the 18 February 1998 inspection of the Facility. 10.Drainage from the ditch along Grant Line Road discharges into an agricultural drain and subsequent) discharges to the San Joaquin River. 11. The beneficial uses of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are domestic, municipal,industrial, and agricultural supply, contact recreation;warm-water fish habitat, warm and cold-water fish migration warm-water spawning,fish and wildlife habitat, and navigation. 12.Beneficial uses of groundwater in the area around the Facility are domestic,municipal, and agricultural supply. 13. Title 27,Division 2, Chapter 7, Subchapter 2, Article 1, Section 22562 (a) of the California Code o Regulations(CCR) states, in part: "Confined animal facilities shall be designed and constructed to retain all facility wastewater generated,together with all precipitation on, and drainage through, manured areas during a 25-ye ar . 24-hour storm." 14. The Discharger has violated Title 27, CCR, Section 22562(a)by failing to design and construct its confined animal facility to retain all facility wastewater generated,together with all precipitation o