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WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS ORDER NO. 7 WILLIAM LONG, SCOTT LONG, AND LONG RANCH, INC. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY Animal holding pens, barns, and sheds, and manure storage area shall be protected from overflow from stream channels during 100-year peak stream flows: 4. All precipitation from roofed areas, including the holding pens, barns, sheds, and _ slaughterhouse, shall be collected and diverted away from manured areas through the stormwater disposal system. Areas containing manure shall be managed to minimize percolation of manured water into soil. 6. Drained blood shall be segregated from all rinsewaters. The 30-day average daily dry-weather discharge to the wastewater holding pond shall not exceed 10,100 gallons. The wastewater holding pond shall be designed, operated, and maintained to ensure that wastes will be approximately 5 feet above the highest anticipated elevation of underlying groundwater. A 2 foot freeboard (from the wastewater) shall be maintained in the wastewater holding pond at all times. Public contact with wastewater shall be precluded through such means as fences, signs, and other acceptable alternatives. Wastewater shall be discharged to the designated disposal area in agronomic rates and shall not exceed the average monthly evapotranspiration of the cropland. The discharge from the wastewater treatment pond shall remain within the designated disposal areas at all times. There shall be no visible standing water in the designated disposal area for more than 48 hours in any consecutive 7-day period. Application of wastewater to cropland shall be managed to minimize percolation to groundwater. Excessively objectionable odors originating from the facility operations shall not be detectable beyond the limits of the property owned by the Discharger and the adjacent properties used as designated disposal areas.