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s CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION ORDER NO. CEASE AND DESIST ORDER AND CALIFORNIA WATER CODE SECTION 13308 ORDER REQUIRING MUSCO OLIVE PRODUCTS AND THE STUDLEY COMPANY SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY TO CEASE AND DESIST FROM DISCHARGING CONTRARY TO REQUIREMENTS The Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter referred to as "Regional E Board") finds that: 1. Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) Order No. 97-037, adopted by the Regional Board on 28 February 1997, prescribes requirements for Musca Olive Products and the Studley Company (hereafter jointly referred to as "Discharger"). 2. Musco Olive Products is an olive brining and packaging facility located south of the town of - Tracy, near Patterson Pass Road. The facility (Assessor's Parcel Number 251-3200-08) is in Section 4, T3S, R4E; MDB&M. Musco Olive Products operates the facility on land leased from the Studley Company, a California Limited Partnership. 3. Wastewater generated at the facility is regulated by two separate WDRs. Order No. 96-075 regulates the Title 27 Class II surface impoundments that are used to store concentrated brines, while Order No. 97-037 regulates the less concentrated wastewater which is applied to land. This Cease and Desist Order refers to violations of Order No. 97-037. 4. Cleanup and Abatement (C&A) Order No. 5-00-717 was issued by the Executive Officer on 17 November 2000. The C&A Order requires the Discharger to prepare technical reports and construct wastewater treatment system improvements to comply with WDRs No. 97-037. WASTEWATER SYSTEM 5. The facility processes olives on a year-round basis. The wastewater system is used to collect and land apply industrial wastewater. Primary treatment (settling) occurs at a one million gallon storage pond. The wastewater is then pumped to land application areas. ' 6. Waste lye solutions, pit floatation brine, and the rinse water with the highest total dissolved solids (TDS) concentrations are discharged to the Class II ponds. Retort cooling water, wash waters (including weak lye solutions), acetic acid storage solutions,pitting machine wastewater, and cannery floor wastewater(despite high TDS concentration), are sent to the land application system. 7. Lye is reclaimed in above ground stainless steel tanks located near the one million gallon storage pond. Adding sodium hydroxide to the tank to increase the concentration reclaims most lye. Lye that is too contaminated for further use is discharged to the Class II ponds. 8. Boiler feed water is treated with an ion exchange column. The ion exchange column is regenerated in place; regeneration brine is discharged to the Class II ponds.