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CALIFORNIA STATEWIDE REGULATIONS FOR CONFINED ANIMAL FACILITIES ARTICLE 6. CONFINED ANIMAL FACILITIES' 2560. Applicability a) This article prescribes statewide minimum standards for discharges of animal waste at confined animal facilities. These standards shall be implemented in any waste discharge requirements issued for a particular facility or made a condition to the waiver of requirements. b) A discharger required to submit a report of waste discharge shall provide the following general information and shall report any material changes as defined in Section 2210 of Title 23 of this Code. 1) average daily volume of facility wastewater and volume or weight of manure; 2) total animal population at t°. facility, and types of animals; 3) location and size of use or disposal fields and retention ponds, including animal capacity; and 4) animal capacity of the facility. c) A regional board may impose additional requirements, if such additional requirements are necessary to prevent degradation of water quality or impairment of beneficial uses of waters of the state. 2561. General Standards Animals at a confined animal facility shall be prevented from entering any surface water within the confined area. 2562. Waste Management a) 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-year, 24- hour storm. b) All precipitation and surface drainage outside of manured ares, including that collected from roofed areas, and runoff frau tributary areas during the storm events described in Subsection (a) of this section, shall be diverted away from manured areas, unless such drainage is fully retained. Regional Boards may waive application of such requirements in specific instances where upstream land use changes have altered runoff patterns such that retention of flood flows is not feasible. c) Retention ponds and manured areas at confined animal facilities in operation on the effective date of this section shall be.protected from inundation or washout by overflow from any stream channel during 20-year peak stream flows. Existing facilities that are protected against 100-year peak stream flows must continue to provide such protection.. d) New facilities shall be protected against 100-year stream flows. e) The determination of peak stream flows shall be from data provided by a recognized federal, state, local, or other agency. f) Retention ponds shall be lined with or underlain by soils which contain at least 10 percent clay and not more than 10 percent gravel or artificial materials of equivalent impermeability. g) Facility wastewater, collected precipitation and drainage may be discharged to use or disposal fields operated according to Section 2563 of this article or to wastewater treatment facilities approved by the appropriate regional board. 'Excerpt from California Code of Regulations, Title 23, Division 3, Chapter 15 (Discharges of Waste to Land), adopted October 18, 1484.