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Paradise Point Marina -3- • 27 April 2000 Inspection Report My inspection of the facility found several non-permit issues that should be addressed: (1) Access to the influent sampling location ig difficult and dangerous to the person collecting the sample. The location where the influent sample is collected requires the sampler to scale a ladder, traverse the top of the aeration chamber and collect the sample on an uneven surface. The top of the aeration chamber is approximately 9 to 10 feet above the slab floor. (2) Liquid chlorine is stored in 50-gallon drums within the enclosed building. There is presently no secondary containment of the liquid chlorine containers. t ) Photo from on top of Aeration Chamber looking into Pressure sand filters. Liquid chlorine refill container is manway where influent sample is currently collected. pictured behind furthest filter. There is no secondary containment for chlorine storage. INSPECTION OF RECEIVING WATERS: I visited the discharge outfall, the receiving ditches, and the receiving waters as part of the inspection. As previously mentioned, the plant outfall is to an unnamed, unlined agricultural tailwater drainage ditch. This ditch drains towards a larger unnamed, unlined drainage ditch located roughly 2000 feet to the north. A pumping station pumps accumulated water from this larger ditch over a levee and into Bishop Cut. At the time of the inspection, I did not observed any water to be emptying from the smaller drainage ditch into the larger drainage ditch,nor did I observe the pumping station to be in operation. There are no agricultural intakes noted within the small drainage ditch or within the vicinity of the pumping station on the large ditch. According to Mr. Lorimer, the current receiving water sampling locations are within Bishop Cut located 500 feet north (RI) and 500 feet south (R2) of where the pumping station discharges into Bishop Cut. Flow within Bishop Cut appeared to be from south to north. Under this flow condition, receiving water sample location RI is downstream and R2 is upstream of the discharge point. Mr. Lorimer collects bioassay samples and residual chlorine samples within the small drainage ditch approximately 75 feet downstream of where the effluent outfall is located. Mr. Lorimer indicated that this sample location was chosen because the chlorine residual at the outfall would be toxic to fish. All other effluent samples are collected immediately following the sand filters.