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,00Wty ontrol BoandClifrnia Rional ater Quali <br /> Central Valley Region <br /> Robert Schneider,Chair <br /> Arnold Schwarzenegger <br /> Alan C.Lloyd Ph.D. Governor <br /> Agency Secretary Sacramento Main Office <br /> 11020 Sun Center Drive,#200,Rancho Cordova,CA 95670.6114 <br /> Phone(916)464-3291 •FAX(916)464-4780 <br /> hitp://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley <br /> ME'MV ED <br /> 14 February 2006 FEB �- <br /> ENVIRONMENT HEALTH <br /> Paul Franzia PERMIT/SERVICES <br /> Barrel Ten Quarter Circle Land Company <br /> 6342 Bystrum Road <br /> Ceres, CA 95307 <br /> INTERIM RESPONSE REVIEW <br /> , BARREL TEN WINERY, ESCALON, SANJOAQUIN <br /> COUNTY 1-7 D b ` <br /> I have reviewed the 22 December 2005 Interim Response, prepared by Kennedy/Jenks Consultants. <br /> The Interim Response was prepared in reply to the Regional Board's 23 November 2005 Incomplete <br /> Report of Waste Discharge correspondence. Cease and Desist Order(CDO)No. R5-2003-0125 <br /> required submittal of a Report of Waste Discharge (RWD) by 1 February 2005. The CDO was issued <br /> as a result of groundwater quality degradation observed at the facility. The CDO allowed Barrel Ten <br /> Quarter Circle Land Company (Discharger) an opportunity to study the cause of groundwater <br /> degradation, design improvements to the winery and wastewater system to protect groundwater quality, <br /> and prepare an RWD that describes the improvements that will prevent future groundwater <br /> degradation. To date, a satisfactory RWD has not been submitted. <br /> After submittal of the 28 January 2005 RWD, the Discharger decided to significantly change the <br /> activities at the site resulting in the need to submit the 19 September 2005 RWD Addendum. Staff <br /> believes the Interim Response is a step in the right direction but additional source control activities may <br /> be required at the facility to allow the waste discharge to be permitted in the non-15 program. The <br /> Discharger is encouraged to maximize source control activities to reduce the dissolved solids loading <br /> to the land application areas. <br /> If source control activities have been maximized and the loading rate to the land application areas <br /> remains at a level that is not protective of groundwater quality, you may wish to investigate the <br /> possibility of additional land application areas. Because groundwater has already been impacted at this <br /> site, continued heavy loading with dissolved solids will not be an acceptable alternative. <br /> Staff are concerned about the Interim Response statement, "Until such time as background <br /> groundwater quality and process water discharge limitations have been properly established through the <br /> appropriate technical and regulatory processes,though, it would be premature to designate the <br /> Facility's process water as Title 27 designated waste." Staff notes that Item No. 7 of the CDO allowed <br /> the Discharger an opportunity to provide recommended effluent discharge limits in the Effluent <br /> Limitation Determination Technical Report. The Discharger declined to propose effluent standards; <br /> therefore, staff will provide the effluent limits in the pending tentative WDRs. <br /> California Environmental Protection Agency <br /> 0*Recycled Paper <br />