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*.4011 — S COMM 911 9/17/96 SAN JOAQUIN RIVER CLUB, INC ` C��31� 30.000 KASSON ROAD TRACY. CALIFORNIA 95376 PHONE: 12091 835-1969 September 4, 1996E t ' ©99 6�E� San Joaquin County Evq„ 1396 Board of Supervisors ^�uhgUp��lSpkF 222 E. Weber Ave. , Room 701 Stockton, Calif. ,95202 Gentlemen, We wish to address a problem concerning a Site Approval Application, SA 94 28 developed and issued by the San Joaquin County Community Development Dept. on July 22, 1994. We have copies of the letters from the Department of Public Works, Environmental Health Division, San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollu- tion Control District and the New Jerusalem Airport concerning this application. Since these departments along with notices to Marion McLeod, Grace McLeod Gart- man and Ron Silva were presumably the only persons given the opportunity to to protest this land use, we as a close neighbor, are protesting that we were not given an opportunity to register our objections during the 11 days given (until August 1, 1994) according to the copies- of these letters. We have been given conflicting information from the various County offices con- cerning the matter. One call to the Community Development Dept. informed our Vice President that if we were more than 1400 feet from the project it was not necessary, by ordinance, to inform us. This call was placed a year ago. A member was informed that we were not within a mile of the dairy therefore it was not necessary to inform us. We are actually less than a mile DOWNWIND of Douma Dairy at 28864 S. Kasson Rd. . This is an area where you can and should change the ordinance in the interest of such future developments. The San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control Dist. in their letter of July 12, 1994 expressed concern over this use because of complaints of adjacent downwind receptors. I assure you this is an intolerable fact. We are the receptors! ! The site application letter of July 22, 1994 addressed to Edward Machado, the applicant, also stated under the conditions of approval that "All animal enclosures - should be maintained so as to eliminate the prolif- eration of flies (which we have in abundance) , other disease vectors, and offensive odors." As one of the two Club members who visited Mr. Ray Borges at the Environmental Health Dept. just recently we offer the following observations from informa- tion he gave us. Mr Borges tells us the Douma Dairy is a "State of the Art Dairy". He said the holding areas are cleansed on an automatic basis several times a day. The water used is recycled, consisting of cow urine and some fresh water from the milking barn. When the cycle is completed the semi solids are dumped into the holding pond. He says that the offensive odor is methane gas. (from the initial dumping of the solids or the disturbance of the pond he couldn't or wouldn't say) We are not educated in the operation of a dairy, merely the recipients of the