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Mr. Art Tanner - 2 - 8 November 2000 Waste Discharge Requirement Violations • Wastewater is not being controlled on the application area. Some of the wastewater application area did not have a surrounding berm and in one area, erosion of surface soils indicated water has runoff the application area onto the neighboring property. All wastewater must remain on the designated application area as described in Standard Provisions and Reporting Requirements, General Provision A.12, which states, "The discharge shall remain within the designated disposal area at all times. " • The WDRs require West Coast Tomato to perform self-monitoring of the wastewater application area and submit monthly reports. However, the Board has not received the reports. During the site meeting it was noted that the monitoring has been performed,but not reported. WDRs Provision E.1 requires, "The Discharger shall comply with the Monitoring and Reporting Program No. 95- 158, which is part of this Order, and any revisions thereto as ordered by the Executive Officer. " Required Technical Report By 22 December 2000, West Coast Tomato shall submit a report to the Board on the following items: • A description of how the wastewater application area was improved to prevent wastewater runoff. • A report presenting all the monitoring data collected in year 2000. If data is not available, then the report shall describe the steps which West Coast Tomato will take to immediately implement the monitoring and reporting requirements of Order No. 95-158. If you have ariy`questions about this Notice of Violation or the report requirements, please contact Tim O'Brien at (916) 255-3116. All future correspondence regarding this site should be addressed to his attention. �Xij� WENDY WYELS, Chief Waste Discharge to Land Unit Lower San Joaquin River Watershed cc: Mike Huggins, San Joaquin County Environmental Health Department, Stockton