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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION ORDERNO. 5-01-057 r WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS FOR CLOSURE OF SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS WOODBRIDGE PARTNERS, INC. VICTOR FINE FOLDS FACILITY LODI SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter Board), finds that: 1. Woodbridge Partners Inc. (hereafter Discharger) owns the Victor Fine Foods Facility, an inactive meat processing plant at 18846 N. State Route 99,East Frontage Road near Lodi,California. 2. The Victor Fine Foods facility, (Assessor's Parcel Number 017-090-51) is 0.4 miles north of the Mokelumne River and about one mile north of Lodi, in Section 31,T4N, R7E,MDB&M. The location is shown on Attachment A,which is incorporated herein and made a part of this order. 3. The Victor Fine Foods facility began operations in 1961, as a meat packaging and processing facility owned by the.Goehring Meat Company. In 1988, Goehring Meat Company sold the facility to Newco Acquisition Sub Inc.;Newco later changed its name to Golden Gate Fresh Foods. Golden Gate Fresh Foods operated the meat packaging operations until 1991. From 1991 to the present the meat packaging and processing facility has been inactive. The Discharger purchased the facility on 12 March 1998 at a sale of tax-defaulted property. 4. Board Resolution 65/66-101 originally regulated this facility. This Resolution required that Goehring Meat not pollute usable groundwater with its wastewater discharge. As a result of pollution of domestic and agricultural groundwater supplies in violation of Resolution 65/66-110,Cleanup and Abatement Order No. 87-733 (C&A)was issued by the Executive Officer in September 1987. This C&A contained a time schedule for replacing polluted water supplies, investigating the extent and source of pollution, and beginning cleanup. 5. On 28 October 1988, Cease and Desist Order No. 88-191 was adopted by the Board. Requirements in the Order included: cease discharge to existing unlined ponds (percolation ponds), define the extent of groundwater pollution, design and implement final groundwater remediation and "close the existing ponds.