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I March 20 , 1984 ��, lry Mr. Mac Powell Manager ISC Wines of Cali=ornia 21801 Highway 120 Escalon, Ca. 953-20 Re: Winery Located at 1 W. Turner Rd. , Lodi , Ca. Dear Mr. Powell: I am writing in regards to the odors emitted from your winery' s waste discharge sl-stem. As I am sure you are aware, the surrounding neighborhood has changed drastically in the past few years and your winery is now bordered on the east and west by residential areas. As a resident and landowner to the east of the winery for the past four years , I have lived with the revolting odor caused by your winery. There have been some feeble attempts in the past to mitigate the problem by talking with various agencies , but always the bureacratic red tape so confounded whoever was pursuing the problem that the ball was dropped. Not so this time. I have recently met with city officials from City of Lodi and a representative from the County Health Department. Regional Water Quality Control Board has also been notified. From these meetings I have learned that your winery has been working with the City of Lodi to correct pH, etc. in order to enable discharge into the City of Lodi ' s waste water system. I congratulate you on this progress and urge that your winery take the final steps to discharge into the city' s industrial line. I have also learned that one of the Discharge Specifications outlined in your cider no. 81-074 , Waste Discharge Requirements , is "neither the treatment nor the discharge shall cause a pollution or nuisance as defined by the California Water Code, section 13050" . Nuisance, as defined by the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act means "anything which: (1) is injurious to health, or is indecent or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, and (2) affects at the sane time an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of persons, although the extent of the annoyance or camage inflicted upon individuals may be unequal , and (3) cccurs during or as a result of the treatment or disposal of wastes" .