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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD <br /> CENTRAL VALLEY REGION <br /> ORDER NO. <br /> WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS <br /> FOR <br /> CLOSURE, POST CLOSURE AND CORRECTIVE ACTION OF SURFACE <br /> IMPOUNDMENTS <br /> AT <br /> KRUGER FOODS, INC - <br /> SMS BRINERS VEGETABLE BRINING FACILITY <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter Board) <br /> finds that: <br /> 1. Kruger Foods, Inc. (hereafter Discharger) owns SMS Briners, hie that operates a vegetable <br /> brining facility near Farmington. The facility was previously regulated by Waste Discharge <br /> Requirements (WDRs) Order No. 92-053 in conformance with Title 27 of California Code of <br /> Regulations, Division 2, Subdivision 1 (hereafter Title 27). On 31 January 2004, the <br /> Discharger submitted a Report of Waste Discharge describing the process for closing their <br /> surface impoundments. These requirements include the change in ownership as well as <br /> provide a time schedule for closing the surface impoundments that complies with Title 27. <br /> 2. The facility is at 1775 East Highway 4, Stockton, California. This property is described by <br /> San Joaquin County Assessor's Parcel Number 183-140-08. The site is on the eastern side of <br /> the San Joaquin Valley as shown on Attachment A,which is incorporated herein and made a <br /> part of this order. <br /> 3. The facility consists of two surface impoundments that were constructed in 1975 with <br /> flexible membrane liners as shown on Attachment B, which is incorporated herein and made <br /> a part of this Order. The liners are in poor repair with numerous holes exposed to the <br /> surface, which does not comply with the prescriptive standards for Class H surface <br /> impoundments presented in Title 27 Table 4.1. <br /> 4. The Discharger installed a deep injection well(Souza#1) for the disposal of brines wastes. <br /> The injection well is screened within a sand interval from—1720 feet msl to—2050 feet msl, <br /> which is beneath the Great Valley Sequence marine unconformity. The deep injection well is <br /> regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its underground injection <br /> control program. <br /> 5. The waste stream generated from the facility consists of a pickling solution of salt (sodium <br /> chloride) combined with potable water. Prior to installation of the injection well, <br /> approximately 7,500 gallons per day(gpd) of process wastewater were discharged to the <br /> surface impoundments resulting in approximately two million gallons of wastewater per year. <br />