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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION ORDER NO. 92-054 WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS FOR ALPINE PACKING COMPANY SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter Board) finds that: 1 . Alpine Packing Company (hereafter Discharger) submitted a Report of Waste Discharge, dated 27 September 1991. The Report of Waste Discharge is incomplete. This Order requires the submittal of Technical Reports which will provide information necessary for its completion. The property (Assessor's Parcel No(s) 084-080-01, 084-080- 02, and 084-080-03) is owned by Alpine Packing Company. 2. Waste Discharge Requirements Resolution No. 60-243, adopted by the Board on 23 June 1960, prescribes requirements for a discharge from meat packing operations to land or to Bear Creek. 3. Resolution No. 60-243 is neither adequate nor consistent with current plans and policies of the Board. 4. The Discharger generates animal waste from cattle held in holding pens, and from slaughterhouse process water and paunch manure. A significant amount of solids are generated, which are periodically removed by a commercial hauler. The process wastewater containing solids currently discharges to a pond treatment system. The solids currently form a solid cap over the first pond in series. Holding pen washwater currently discharges to a canal which is pumped into the last treatment pond. From there, wastewater is pumped to 16 acres of pasture for disposal . 5. The Discharger uses salt for bacon and ham processing of pork brought into the facility. Salts were reported to be used completely in the brining process and are not discharged with process wastewater. 6. The Discharger has proposed adding a solids separator to keep the solids from entering and clogging the treatment ponds. After the solids separator is installed, the ponds are proposed to be cleaned out and improved, as necessary, to provide adequate wastewater treatment. 7. The Discharger estimates the wastewater flows are 189,000 gpd, but actual rates have not been measured. 8. Alpine Packing Company is in the NE 1/4 of Section 9, T2N, R6E, MDB&M, with surface water drainage to a tributary of Mosher Slough, as shown in Attachment A, which is attached hereto and part of the Order by reference.