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The District was invited to participate in the investigation. This was the District's first formal complaint df odors from Spreckels. on the morning of April 27, 1977, Richard Johnson and Jerry Vnite of the Air Resources Board, Larry Nash of the California Regional `dater Quality Control Board and Joe Spano of the San Joaquin County Air Pollution Control District met with Stewart Anderson, David Voit, and Frank Nelson of Spreckels Sugar. The Spreckels representatives discussed three potential sources of odor: the beet pulp driers, the cattle feedlot, and the wastewater ponds. They stated that the odor from the beet pulp drier was a generally unobjection— able odor similar to the odor of a baked potato. They explained that the feeding of beet resid=9 to cattle traded the odor which would occur if the beet residue were merely piled on the property and left to decay for the less objectional odor of a small feedlot. They also explained the waste— water ponding ca,_-,iSJ1' tie3, the water flow pattern through the ponds, the methods used fo aerating the ponds, and the program of using the water to irrigate orchard and field crops as a final disposal method. They also explained that Spreckels opposed development of property adjacent to the company's prcperty, thereby precipitating the odor complaints as a retaliatory tactic. The group toured the cattle feeding area and the wastewater ponding area. The Spreckels representatives pointed out an area to the north of the ponds which had previously been used as a cattle feed lot but which was scheduled for grading to provide fill dirt to be used in the construction of some new wastewater ponds thereby leaving the old cattle feed lot area to be used as a forage crop growing area. The new pond construction area was the present (9)