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L,- J ADMINISTRATIVE CIVIL LIABILITY COMPLAINT NO. 5-01-531 -2 - R. 2 - R. LAWSON ENTERPRISES DBA WILDROSE VINEYARDS SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY Technical Report Due Date Groundwater Monitoring Workplan 6 October 2000 Operation and Wastewater Management Plan 31 December 2000 Groundwater Well Installation Report 6 January 2001 6. On 26 October 2000, staff issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) citing the Discharger for: a) failure to submit a report describing installation of a flow meter to measure the flow of winery wastewater to the land application areas, how stormwater flows have been separated from wastewater flows, the installation of the 12,000 gallon tank, and how the wastewater from the adjacent California Fruit Products facility has been separated from the winery wastewater; and b) failure to submit a groundwater monitoring well installation workplan. The NOV required the Discharger to submit the overdue reports by 8 December 2000. The Discharger failed to submit the reports by the 8 December 2000 date. 7. On 28 December 2000, staff contacted the Discharger by telephone inquiring about the overdue reports and failure to submit self-monitoring reports. Staff advised the Discharger the continued pattern of noncompliance would likely result in an enforcement action, including imposition of an Administrative Civil Liability. 8. On 21 March 2001, staff provided a conditional approval of a Draft Groundwater Monitoring Workplan. As required by WDRs Provision F.2.b, the workplan was to be submitted by 6 October 2000; however, the Draft Workplan was not received at the Regional Board office until 16 January 2001. Staff's conditional approval required that technical issues be addressed in a final workplan, which was to be signed and stamped by a California Registered Engineer or Geologist. Submittal of the final report was required by 21 April 2001. The Discharger failed to submit the report. The conditional approval letter also required the Discharger to expedite installation of the monitoring wells, because the Discharger was significantly behind the schedule contained in the WDRs. 9. On 11 April 2001, staff contacted the Discharger by facsimile machine, stating that a number of items required in the WDRs had not been satisfied, monitoring reports had not been submitted, and that continued noncompliance could result in an Administrative Civil Liability. 10. On 11 April 2001, the Discharger submitted self-monitoring reports for the months of January 2001,February 2001, and March 2001. The reports are incomplete because they do not include flow rates and monitoring of sulfate and total dissolved solids concentrations for wastewater applied to the land application areas, as required by Monitoring and Reporting Program No. 5-00- 182. Since adoption of Order No. 5-00-182 in August 2000, the Discharger has failed to submit any other monthly monitoring reports. 11. The Discharger,by the acts and omissions above, violated Provisions of Section 13267 (b)(1) of the California Water Code, which reads, in part, as follows: "The regional board may require that any person who has discharged, discharges,or is suspected of discharging, or who proposes to discharge waste within its region, or any citizen or domiciliary, or political