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Matt Machado • - 2 - 29 January 203 City of Ripon The City has submitted incomplete monitoring reports and has failed to monitor all items required by the MRP. The following lists the items not included in the monitoring reports: o Annual monitoring of domestic wastewater influent metals content not provided o For the industrial wastewater influent the following parameters were not reported: ■ Flow rate not reported for the entire year. ■ Second, third, and fourth quarters of BOD and COD were not reported. • Annual volatile organic compounds was not reported. • Annual metals monitoring was not reported. o Weekly freeboard measurements in the ponds have not been reported for the entire year. o Annual sludge metals monitoring was not reported. o For the water supply monitoring,the following parameters were not reported: ■ Quarterly total dissolved solids water supply monitoring has not been reported for the entire year. • Quarterly electrical conductivity of the water supply has not been reported for the entire year. • Annual volatile organic compound monitoring has not been reported. • Annual standard minerals monitoring has not been reported. ■ Annual metals monitoring has not been reported. o For groundwater monitoring,the following parameters were not reported: ■ Quarterly groundwater elevations have not been reported for the entire year. ■ Annual nitrate monitoring has not been reported. • Annual nitrite monitoring has not been reported. ■ Annual total Kj eldahl nitrogen monitoring has not been reported. ■ Annual total dissolved solids monitoring has not been reported. ■ Annual volatile organic compound monitoring has not been reported. ■ Annual metals monitoring has not been reported. ■ Annual coliform monitoring has not been reported. This is the second notice of violation for failure to submit monitoring reports that the City has received in less than one year. Failure to submit monitoring reports is a serious violation and may lead to additional enforcement activities including imposition of administrative civil liabilities. On 13 February 2001, the City was issued a letter stating that it is required to submit monitoring reports pursuant to Section 13267 of the California,Water Code. Section 13267 in part states: (b) (1)In conducting an investigation specified in subdivision (a), the regional board may require that any person who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of discharging, or who proposes to discharge waste within its region, or any citizen or domiciliary, or political agency or entity of this state who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of discharging, V:�b.u,o W.,Sim, .o,a�.,o�p,�,z,oW>