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WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS -5- <br /> NEWARK GROUP INDUSTRIES, INC. <br /> NEWARK SIERRA PAPERBOARD CORPORATION <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> The discharge shall not cause the following in the receiving water: <br /> 1. Concentrations of dissolved oxygen to fall below 5 mg/l. <br /> 2. Oils, greases, waxes, or other materials to form a visible film or coating on the water surface <br /> or on the stream bottom. <br /> 3. Oils, greases, waxes, floating material (liquids, solids, foams, and scums) or suspended material <br /> to create a nuisance or adversely affect beneficial uses. <br /> 4. Aesthetically undesirable discoloration. <br /> 5. Fungi, slimes, or other objectionable growths. <br /> 6. Turbidity to increase more than 10 percent over background levels. <br /> 7. The normal ambient pH to fall below 6.5, exceed 8.5, or change by more than 0.5 units. <br /> 8. Deposition of material that causes nuisance or adversely affects beneficial uses. <br /> 9. The creation of a zone, defined by water temperatures of more than I°F above natural receiving <br /> water temperature, which exceeds 25 percent of the cross-sectional area of the Deep Water <br /> Channel at any point. <br /> 10. Taste or odor-producing substances to impart undesirable tastes or odors to fish flesh or other <br /> edible products of aquatic origin or to cause nuisance or adversely affect beneficial uses. <br /> 11. Radionuclides to be present in concentrations that exceed maximum contaminant levels <br /> specified in the California Code of Regulations, Title 22; that harm human, plant, animal or <br /> aquatic life; or that result in the accumulation of radionuclides in the food web to an extent that <br /> presents a hazard to human, plant, animal, or aquatic life. <br /> 12. Aquatic communities and populations, including vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant species, to <br /> be degraded. <br /> 13. Toxic pollutants to be present in the water column, sediments, or biota in concentrations that <br /> adversely affect beneficial uses; that produce detrimental response in human, plant, animal, or <br /> aquatic life; or that bioaccumulate in aquatic resources at levels which are harmful to human <br /> health. <br />