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Staff Report Forward, Inc. (continued) -2- As a result of inspections and evaluations of the Forward, Inc. disposal site, staff noted the following items that violate or will violate requirements of Order No. 73-183: Monitoring of ground water was inadequate, Solar evaporation pond #5 was used without authorization. Ponded water was observed on trench caps Nos. 1 and 2. Standing water was also observed on the Group 2 disposal area. Heavy equipment storage and traffic occurred on the clay caps for dis- posal Trench Nos. 1 and 2. Drilling mud and brines were removed from the solar ponds and placed on top of the Group 2 disposal area and on the clay cap for disposal Trench No. 2 without authorization. A small quantity of barium-strontium sludge was placed in an unlined excavation between disposal Trench Nos. 3 and 4. Inadequate control of surface water runoff was provided. There was no segregation between clean runoff and the runoff that may come in contact with the drilling muds presently on the clay cap for disposal Trench No. 2. This .caused a potential overflow situation in the solar ponds which collected the runoff. On 12 April 1983, the Executive Officer, under authority delegated by -the Board, ordered Forward, Inc. to submit a detailed time schedule of specific actions to correct or prevent violations specified above. On2 May 1983, Forward, Inc. submitted a time schedule to comply with that order. By modifying the time schedule submitted by Forward, Inc. to include specific dates for compliance and reports, to substitute monitorinq well number 16 for monitoring well number 12, to provide for the elimination and excavation of the solar evaporation ponds, and. to relocate and properly dispose of wastes received from FMC, Modesto, staff believes that performance of the specific actions proposed by Forward, Inc. will correct or prevent a' violation of Order No. 73-183, and that adoption of an order to cease and desist is unnecessary. See.Attachment 4. Conclusions: 1 . Forward, Inc. has operated in a manner that violates or will violate discharge Specifications A.6, A.7, A.9, and A.11 , and Provisions B.l and B.6 of Order No. 73-183.