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California hegional Water Quality Control Board l\- Central Valley Region ` v Steven T.Butler,Chair Winston H.Hickox Gray Davis Secretaryfor Sacramento Main Office Governor Environmental Internet Address: http://�.sw b.ca.gov/- gcb5 Protection 3443 Routier Road,Suite A,Sacramento,Califomia 95827-3003 Phone(916)255-3000•FAX(916)255-3015 8 September 1999 Ms. Nancy Takashiro 758 Frewert Road Lathrop, California 95330 RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON TENTATIVE WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS, STAGNO'S MEAT COMPANY, SAN JOA QUIN COUNTY Thank you for your 14 August 1999 commenting on the Tentative Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) for Stagno's Meat Company. We have reviewed your comments and have provided responses. Your comments are provided below in bold face type followed by our response. I am the neighbor to the immediate west and south of this proposed slaughterhouse. My property borders the property in question and I am very worried about wastewater being sprayed and running onto my property. If a permit is issued,I ask you to require the Stagnos to install a high fence along my property lines in order to keep airborne wastewater from being sprinkled in my property. The winds blow every day out here,year round.....I would also ask that he be required to build a berm or ditch along side the fence to control run-off from wastewater. We share your concern regarding the potential for uncontrolled wastewater discharge onto your property. The Tentative WDRs contain Prohibitions and Specifications (A.7 and B.12,respectively)to address this issue. We have revised the language in Prohibition A.7 to try to address the your concerns over the potential for wastewater overapplication by different methods. However, we cannot specify how Stagno applies his wastewater to the cropland, and thus cannot require that ditches,berms, or walls be constructed. I would also ask you to require the Stagnos to place the waste holding pond back to the rear of the property where he proposed it would be at the county meetings. He has built it approximately one-hundred feet from my front door. We have considered the existing location of the dry wastewater treatment pond to that proposed in the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) documents and in the Use Permit. If the pond is relocated south of the existing stormwater detention pond, then the area that the pond currently occupies would necessarily be converted to cropland(i.e. disposal field). According to our calculations, as much on-site acreage (9 acres) as possible will be needed for the agronomic disposal of the manured wastewater in order to prevent groundwater degradation. In addition, odor nuisances and uncontrolled runoff of the wastewater are more likely to occur if the area currently occupied by the wastewater c:\ckwfilms agriculturetaglenm\aglu008 California Environmental Protection Agency ,d Recycled Paper