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ADMINISTRATIVE CIVIL LIA6ITY COMPLAINT NO. R5-2008-0562 -4- MANDATORY PENALTY CITY OF LODI WHITE SLOUGH WATER POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITY SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY • Total Coliform Organisms Violation 71. The Discharger documented that the exceedance was due to a sampling error and further documented that it had previously documented the sampling error. This violation was dismissed. • pH Violation 37. The Discharger claimed that this was not a violation because it only lasted three hours. This violation was retained but did not result in assessment of an MMP because it was only the second violation during the preceding 180 days. • No Surface Water Discharge Violations 46 and 54. The Discharger documented that there was no discharge to surface waters. These violations were dismissed. • Liability Adjustments Violations 37, 48, 49, 53, and 56. Violations 37, 48, 49, 53, and 56, after deleting other violations, are the third or fewer violations during a preceding 180 day period and do not result in assessed MMPs. 15. According to the Discharger's self-monitoring reports, the Discharger committed twenty- five (25) non-serious violations of the above effluent limitations contained in Order Nos. 5-00-031 and R5-2007-0113 during the period beginning 1 January 2000 and ending 31 December 2007. Seven (7) of the non-serious violations are subject to mandatory penalties under CWC section 13385(i)(1) because these violations were preceded by three or more similar violations within a six-month period. The mandatory minimum penalty for these non-serious violations is twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000). 16. The total amount of the mandatory penalties assessed for the cited effluent violations is twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000). A detailed list of the cited effluent violations is included in Attachment A, a part of this Complaint. 17. Issuance of this Administrative Civil Liability Complaint to enforce CWC Division 7, Chapter 5.5 is exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (Pub. Resources Code section 21000 et seq.), in accordance with California Code of Regulations, title 14, section 15321(a)(2). THE CITY OF LODI WHITE SLOUGH WATER POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITY IS HEREBY GIVEN NOTICE THAT: 1. The Assistant Executive Officer of the Regional Water Board proposes that the Discharger be assessed an Administrative Civil Liability in the amount of twenty-one thousand dollars ($21,000). 2. A hearing on this matter will be held at the Regional Water Board meeting scheduled on 23/24 October 2008, unless the Discharger does either of the following by 15 September 2008: