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Poultry Houses: There are two poultry houses.At the present time the facility operates year round with approximately 80,000 birds.The house is approximately 40 years old. The house is 162,480 square feet and made of wood lath with metal roofs. There is a single row of hanging cages with a wooden scrape board beneath the cages. They have concrete path ways and shallow pits directly below the row of cages and scrape aisles. Each house has a manure pit associated with it.The aisles are scraped clean: manure is wet.The manure is picked up by a poultry clean machine and its being cleaned every day. The process is completed within 2 days and the manure is being stored in the manure pits.After this process the pump truck picks up the manure from the pits and sprays them on the orchards as a fertilizer.We haul at least eleven loads of manure twice a week to the local farmers. Feed storage:Any feed that is being delivered to the chicken house is carried in 24 tons feed truck.The feed is being stored into feed tanks that are located in front of the chicken houses. Type of feed being used is made of mostly corn and other grain ingredients. Manure pit dimensions are 13 w x 411 x 10 ft deep.We produce 9.04 tons of wet manure a day. Garbage disposal:We have no garbage container in the premise.All garbage being generated is being carried to 18832 Mello Ave Ripon Ca 95366.The garbage disposal company is Gilton Solid Waste. Local Farmers: Charlie, 18600 N.Ripon Rd.,Ripon Ca Nepote Farm, 17309 N.Ripon Rd,Ripon, Ca Paul, 18401 Wagner Rd.,Ripon, Ca Villanueva Farms, 18396 Wagner Rd., Ripon, Ca Residences: There are 2 residences and/or employee houses on-site. They provide fresh water to the residences, poultry houses, and processing plant(not in use). The wells are within the poultry operation and pipelines transport water around the operation and to the various residences. Bird Mortality: S.K.S. has about a.03% mortality rate a week. The birds are incinerated. If large amounts of birds need to be disposed of,S.K.S. has to contact a Landfill. Septic Systems: There are 4 domestic septic systems on-site. They are located by the residences, the processing plant,and any house that has a bathroom associated with it. These systems are for human waste only. They are underground and pumped out as needed by a commercial septic company. 5