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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD <br /> CENTRAL VALLEY REGION <br /> ORDER NO. 90-047 <br /> WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS <br /> FOR <br /> GOLDEN GATE FRESH FOODS, INC. <br /> VICTOR FINE FOODS <br /> TREATMENT PLANT <br /> AND <br /> CLASS II SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, <br /> (hereafter Board) finds: <br /> 1. Golden Gate Fresh Foods, Inc. , doing business as Victor Fine Foods <br /> (hereafter Discharger) proposes to dispose of treated, process wastewater <br /> and polluted ground water using an underground injection well . The <br /> Discharger submitted a Class I Underground Injection Control Well Permit <br /> Application, dated 19 January 1989, to the U.S. Environmental Protection <br /> Agency. An addendum to the Permit Application was submitted to EPA on 16 <br /> March 1989. The Discharger proposes to construct and operate a pretreatment <br /> facility to treat the process wastewater prior to injection. A Report of <br /> Waste Discharge (RWD) including the proposal for the treatment plant was <br /> submitted to the Board on 31 January 1989. A Design and Operations Report <br /> (DOR) , dated 1 May 1989; an amended RWD and DOR, dated 20 November 1989; <br /> and additional reports and documents were submitted to complete the <br /> technical information. <br /> 2. The 60-acre facility, comprised of Assessor' s Parcel Number(s) 017-090-51 , <br /> -46, is owned and operated by Golden Gate Fresh Foods, Inc. and does <br /> business as Victor Fine Foods. Waste disposal activities currently utilize <br /> about 8.5 acres of the facility. The facility is 0.4 miles north of the <br /> Mokelumne River and about one mile north of Lodi , in Section 31 , T4N, R7E, <br /> MDB&M, as shown in Attachment "A" , which is incorporated herein and made <br /> part of this Order. <br /> 3. The Discharger purchased the facility from Goehring Meat Inc. , (GMI) in <br /> November 1988. The Discharger processes and packages meat products at the <br /> facility. Process wastewater and brine wastes have been discharged to two, <br /> unlined, percolation ponds since about 1965. As a result, wastewater high <br /> in total dissolved solids (TDS) , percolated into the local aquifer and <br /> polluted local agricultural and domestic water supplies. <br /> 4. The Discharger and GMI have both contributed to the local ground water <br /> pollution with the discharge practices described in Finding No. 3. Impacts <br /> on the ground water are detected at least one-half mile to the north of the <br /> facility and 150 feet below ground surface in the first and second zones <br /> of ground water (A and B zones). To date, 10 domestic water supplys and <br /> 2 agricultural wells have been replaced because the ground water was <br />