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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD <br /> CENTRAL VALLEY REGION <br /> ACL ORDER NO. <br /> ADMINISTRATIVE CIVIL LIABILITY ORDER <br /> IN THE MATTER OF <br /> MUSCO OLIVE PRODUCTS AND THE STUDLEY COMPANY <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> This Order for Administrative Civil Liability(hereafter Order) is issued to Musco Olive Products and <br /> The Studley Company(hereafter jointly referred to as "Discharger") based on failure to comply with <br /> enforcement orders issued pursuant to Chapter 5, Article I of the California Water Code (CWC). This <br /> Order is issued pursuant to Sections 13350 and 13268 of the CWC, which authorize the imposition of <br /> administrative civil liability. <br /> The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region (hereafter Regional <br /> Board) finds, with respect to the Discharger's acts, or failure to act, the following: <br /> i <br /> 1. Musco Olive Products owns and operates an olive brining and packaging facility south of the town <br /> of Tracy, near Patterson Pass Road in San Joaquin County. The facility(Assessor's Parcel <br /> Number 251-3200-08) is in Section 4, T3S, R4E, MDB&M. Musco Olive Products operates the <br /> facility on land leased from the Studley Company, a California Limited Partnership. <br /> 2. Wastewater generated at the facility is regulated by two separate Waste Discharge Requirements <br /> (WDRs) Orders. Order No. 96-075 regulates the Title 27 Class II surface impoundments that are <br /> used to store concentrated brines, while Order No. 97-037, adopted by the Regional Board on <br /> 28 February 1997, regulates the less concentrated wastewater which is applied to land. This Order <br /> pertains only to violations of WDRs Order No. 97-037 and Cleanup and Abatement(C&A) Order <br /> No. 5-00-717 that occurred from 17 November 2000 to 25 January 2002. <br /> 3. The facility processes olives year-round and generates several wastewater streams. Waste lye <br /> solutions, pit floatation brine, and rinse water all have high total dissolved solids (TDS) <br /> concentrations, and are discharged to either of two Class II surface impoundments for evaporation. <br /> WASTE GENERATION AND DISPOSAL <br /> Approximately.600,000 gallons per data. tort cooling water,-wash waters (including weak lye <br /> solutions), acetic acid storage solutions, pitting machine wastewater, and cannery floor wastewater <br /> are collected and transferred to an unlined one-million-gallon storage pond, where primary settling <br /> occurs. The wastewater is then pumped to land application areas. Recent improvements to the <br /> cannery have reportedly separated high strength wastewater which is now discharged to the Class <br /> II ponds. <br /> 5. Based on the Discharger's self monitoring data for the period cited in this Order, the average <br /> biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) of the wastewater discharged to the land application areas <br /> was 3,000 mg/L, and the average concentration of dissolved inorganic solids (DIS)was <br /> 2,600 mg/L. WDRs Order No. 97-037 limits the BOD to a daily maximum of 3,176 mg/1 and the <br />