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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION ORDER NO. 90-313 WASTEWATER RECLAMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR ALBERT AND MARIANNE WARMERDAM AND LOCKEFORD COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter Board) finds that: 1. Lockeford Community Services District (hereafter Reclaimer) and Albert and Marianne Warmerdam (hereafter User) filed a Report of Wastewater Reclamation with the Board on 15 September 1978, pursuant to Section 13522.5 of the California Water Code, for a proposed reclamation project that will utilize treated effluent from the Lockeford Community Services District wastewater treatment facility. 2. The Board, on 23 March 1979, adopted Wastewater Reclamation Requirements Order No. 79-74 which prescribed requirements for Albert and Marianne Warmerdam, landowners of Assessor' s Parcel No. 053-03-500, to flood irrigate 115 acres of feed and forage crops with treated effluent from Lockeford Community Services District. 3. The reclamation site is two miles south of Lockeford in Section 6, T3N, R8E, MDB&M. (See Attachment A which is a part of this Order. ) 4. The reclamation site totals 115 acres and is owned by Albert and Marianne Warmerdam, who are supplied with reclaimed water by Lockeford Community Services District, under an Agreement dated 10 November 1977 and amended 19 March 1987. The annual flow was increased from 50 acre-feet to 375 acre-feet. The Agreement expires on 31 December 2008. 5. User will manage the distribution of reclaimed water and utilize the treated effluent to irrigate clover pasture and fodder. Treated effluent is to be stored in ponds at the wastewater treatment facility, and in one remote storage pond on the Warmerdam property. (See Attachment A. ) 6. Reclaimer is proposing to produce up to 0.71 million gallons per day (mgd) of effluent. The User has agreed to take all water delivered as Reclaimer deems necessary for the safe and efficient use of the wastewater treatment and disposal facility. The discharge from the wastewater treatment facility is regulated by Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. 90-312. 7. The State Department of Health Services has established state-wide reclamation criteria (Title 22, Division 4, Chapter 4, of the California Code of Regulations (CCR)) for the use of reclaimed wastewater.