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Kennedy/Jenks Consultants 1.2 Facility Overview 1.2.1 Background and Regulatory History Effective 16 July 2003, BTQCLC purchased the Facility from Canandaigua, which had purchased the Facility and surrounding land from Heublein, Inc. and Heublein Wines (Heublein) in 1994. Heublein operated a bulk winery and distillery operation under Waste Discharge Requirements (WDR) Order No. 91-223, adopted by the CRWQCB on 26 November 1991. On 14 September 2001, the CRWQCB issued revised Monitoring and Reporting Program (MRP) No. 91-223 for the Facility's LAA. Kennedy/Jenks previously prepared a Report of Waste Discharge (RWD)for the Facility and submitted it to the CRWQCB on 15 March 2002. The RWD included data and information from the Facility available at the time as well as a description of additional data and information needed to satisfy the CRWQCB's request for information. After completion of the RWD, Canandaigua collected additional qualitative and quantitative data for several process water streams including the cooling water sump, and the east and west sumps as set out by the revised MRP. On 7 February 2003 and 5 September 2003, the CRWQCB issued the CDO specifying new monthly average flow discharge requirements in addition to total dissolved solids (TDS) and total nitrogen (TN), superseding limits that were outlined in the WDR. Kennedy/Jenks subsequently submitted a Process Water Characterization Work Plan for the Facility(14 March 2003); Solid Waste Disposal Plan (SWDP) (29 May 2003); Land Application Area Operation and Maintenance Plan (LAA O&M) (13 June 2003); and Effluent Limit Determination Technical Report (12 August 2004) (Kennedy/Jenks 2003a, 2003b, 2003c, 2004a, respectively). In accordance with the CDO, BTQCLC submitted a RWD to the CRWQCB on 28 January 2005 (Kennedy/Jenks 2005a). In response to the RWD, Kennedy/Jenks received questions for clarification from the CRWQCB in July 2005. In the meantime, BTQCLC had made the decision to begin planning for upgrading the Escalon facility to include crushing, fermenting, pressing, storing, fining, and filtering operations beginning in 2007. Consequently, the RWD was followed by an RWD Addendum on 19 September 2005 (Kennedy/Jenks 2005b)to document changes in operational plans for the Facility. Kennedy/Jenks is currently in the process of developing an Engineering Report, RWD Addendum II on behalf of BTQCLC, in response to comments from the CRWQCB, most recently in correspondence dated 14 February 2006. 1.3 Facility Description The winery Facility is located at 21801 Highway 120, approximately two miles northwest of Escalon, California (Figure 1). For the purposes of this report, the winery Facility, together with the evaporation and percolation basins (basins) or LAA located immediately west and north of the Facility are referred to as the "Site". The Site consists of 128 acres located in the south half of Section 36, Township 2S, Range 8E, (Mount Diablo Base & Meridian). The Facility area is mostly paved with asphalt or concrete and covers approximately 13 acres in the southeast corner of the Site. The main components of the Facility include the main office, maintenance area, former crush area, distillery(no longer in use), two cold rooms, 24 tank Groundwater Investigation Work Plan Page 2 Barrel Ten Quarter Circle Winery, Escalon, California g:6s-groupladminyob1031030118.08_barrelten109-reportslgw invest wrk phtext.doc