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41 <br /> s <br /> STAFF REPORT <br /> CEASE AND DESIST ORDER <br /> CALIFORNIA WATER CODE 13305 ORDER <br />` TIME SCHEDULE ORDER <br /> FOR <br /> MUSCO OLIVE PRODUCTS AND THE STUDLEY COMPANY <br /> I SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> f <br /> Introduction <br /> Musco Olive Products and the Studley Company(hereafter jointly referred to as "Discharger") operate <br /> an olive processing and canning facility at 17950 Via Nicolo,'Tracy in San Joaquin County. Musco <br /> t Olive Products operates the facility on land leased from the Studley Company, a California Limited <br /> Partnership. <br /> Year-round olive processing activities include receiving, lye curing, brining,pitting, and canning. These <br /> i activities generate wastewater with elevated concentrations of salt (expressed in the WDRs as dissolved <br /> inorganic solids [DIS]), sodium, and chloride. The Discharger is required to separate the wastewater <br /> based on DIS concentrations; wastewater with DIS concentrations exceeding 1,340 mg/1 should be <br /> directed to one of two Title 27 Class H surface impoundments,while the lower strength wastewater is <br /> discharged to a one million gallon storage pond prior to land application. Due to the two waste streams, <br /> this facility is regulated by two separate WDRs. Order No. 96-075 regulates the concentrated brines sent <br /> to the Title 27 surface impoundments, while Order No. 97-037 regulates the less concentrated <br /> wastewater that is applied to land. This Cease and Desist(C&D) Order refers only to violations of <br /> WDRs Order No. 97-037. <br /> WDRs No. 97-037 allow the Discharger to discharge up to 500,000 gallons per day(gpd) of wastewater <br /> to 200 acres of land. The WDRs specify that the land must be cropped, that wastewater shall not stand <br /> on any check more than 12 hours, that wastewater will not be applied during rain.events, and that <br /> wastewater may not enter surface waters. The WDRs have specific annual and daily loading rates for <br /> biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and dissolved inorganic solids. <br /> History <br /> In January ry2000 the Discharger submitted a Report of Waste Discharge requesting an increase in both <br /> the allowable flow limit and the salt loading limit for wastewater applied to land. As part of the review <br /> of the RWD, staff conducted a site inspection in May 2000. Staff found a number of violations, <br /> including: evidence that the one million gallon storage pond had spilled into the surface drainage course <br /> which runs through the site,wastewater was applied to land during rain events, wastewater was flowing <br /> off the land application area, and wastewater was escaping the site in the surface drainage course. A <br /> review of monitoring reports revealed that the average DIS concentrations for January 2000 to March <br /> 2000 exceeded 2,000 mg/1 in the wastewater applied to land. These concentrations significantly <br /> exceeded the both the daily1,340 m I and annual 1,264 m ) DIS loading limits prescribed by the <br /> ( mg/1) { P� <br /> WDRs. <br /> The Discharger was issued a Notice of Violation and required,pursuant to Section 13267 of the <br /> California Water Code to submit reports showing how it would address wastewater storage issues, <br /> p g <br /> waste application procedures, waste loading limits, the impact of applying saline wastewater to land, and <br /> alternatives for source control: The Discharger submitted several reports; however, they were <br /> l <br />