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INFORMATION SHEET <br />WILLIAM LONG, SCOTT LONG, AND <br />LONG RANCH, INC. <br />SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br />William and Scott Long (Discharger) have proposed expansion of a family owned business that <br />includes- hog ranching and processing (slaughterhouse) operations. The existing facility operates as <br />Long Ranch, Inc. at 5203 West Ripon Road, approximately 3 miles south of Manteca and 6 miles west <br />of Ripon in San Joaquin County. The facility occupies 14.4 acres and currently processes <br />approximately 200 swine weekly, which will increase to 800 swine per week, upon expansion. The <br />facility will consist of farrowing sheds, finishing barns, a manure storage area, holding pens two <br />slaughterhouses and a wastewater holding pond. Approximately 12 acres of the Discharger's property <br />and 68.5 acres of adjacent properties will be used as designated disposal areas (cropland). <br />Five types of wastes will be produced as part of the facility operations: <br />manure solids; <br />manured wastewater; <br />slaughterhouse wastewater; <br />whole blood; and <br />solid animal wastes. <br />Manure solids and manured wastewaters are produced primarily from the ranching operations. <br />Approximately 2100 gallons of manured wastewater are produced daily. Periodic flushings of the <br />sheds and barns remove the wastes to the holding pond where they are passed over a solids separator to <br />remove the solids from the manured wastewater. Accumulated manure is transferred to the manure <br />storage area, where it is subsequently hauled off site or, upon expansion, will be tilled into the cropland <br />soil prior to planting. <br />The slaughterhouse operations produce the other three types of wastes: rinsewaters, blood, and solid <br />animal wastes. Rinsewaters will be derived from animal, carcass, and kill-floor rinsings. These <br />rinsewaters will comprise the vast majority of the wastewater, estimated to be approximately 8000 <br />gallons daily. Whole blood will be captured and stored in a tank for sale and will not be discharged to <br />the wastewater holding pond. Solid animal wastes consist of the discarded portions of the carcasses <br />(offal), fats, and greases. These solid wastes are produced during slaughterhouse operations and will <br />be segregated from the wastewaters using a screened grease trap. Offal, screenings, and other solids <br />will be will be collected for rendering and will not be discharged to the wastewater holding pond. <br />The on-site holding pond will be used to store the wastewaters prior to discharge to the designated <br />disposal areas. It is estimated that base of the existing pond has sealed over from settled and <br />compacted solids and that there is over 5 feet of separation between the base of the pond and shallow <br />groundwater. Alfalfa, silage corn, and oats are to be cropped in the designated disposal areas. <br />Baseline soil samples of the cropland were submitted. <br />Domestic waste will be discharged to a new septic tank and leachfield. Rainwater runoff from the <br />roofed facilities (pens, barns, sheds, manured storage area, and slaughterhouse) and from the paved <br />areas of the site will be captured and transferred to a Reclamation District 2075 drainage ditch.