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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION L_ ORDER NO. WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS FOR WILLIAM LONG, SCOTT LONG, AND LONG RANCH INC. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY N The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter Board) finds that: William Long and Scott Long (hereafter Discharger) and Long Ranch, Inc. submitted a Report of Waste Discharge (RWD) on 4 June 1998 for a proposed discharge of waste from a swine ranching and processing facility. An amended RWD was submitted on 18 June 1999. The Discharger owns the land used for swine ranching and processing. The site is in the SE/4 of the SW/4 of Section 19, T2S, R7E, MDB&M, and occupies 14.4 acres (Assessor's Parcel No. 243-450-09). The site is at 5203 West Ripon Road, approximately 3 miles south of Manteca and 6 miles west of Ripon, San Joaquin County, as shown on Attachment A, which is attached hereto and is part of this Order by reference. The Discharger proposes to expand the existing farrow-to-finish and slaughterhouse operations to increase processing from the current rate of approximately 200 per week. "Farrow-to- finish" indicates that the animals are grown and processed on site. Site operations will contain farrowing sheds, finishing barns, a manure storage area, holding pens, two slaughterhouses, and a wastewater holding pond, as shown on Attachment B; attached hereto and is part of this Order by reference. Ranching operations will remain at the same level as in the past, where approximately 100 swine are raised on a weekly basis. The slaughterhouse operations will expand where approximately 800 swine will be slaughtered each week (i.e. 160 each day). Swine that are transported in weekly (approximately 700) will be slaughtered within 24 hours of arrival. Slaughterhouse operations will be conducted 5 days per week, year round. Liquid wastes produced from the ranching and slaughterhouse operations will be discharged to approximately 12 acres of the Discharger's propei-ty and•to approximately 68.5 acres of adjacent properties (Assessor's Parcel Nos. 243-460-01, 243-460-06, 243-460-10, and 243-450-13). This acreage will serve as the designated disposal areas (cropland). Manure from the concrete-lined farrowing sheds and finishing barns are periodically flushed for cleaning. Typically, manure and urine passes through a gate into a concrete tough which is periodically flushed. These wastes are pumped to the wastewater holding pond where they are L_