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WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS -5- ESCALON PACKERS, INC. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 2. Oils, greases, waxes, or other materials to form a visible film or coating on the water surface or on the stream bottom. 3. Oils, greases, waxes, floating material (liquids, solids, foams, and scums) or suspended material to create a nuisance or adversely affect beneficial uses. 4. Aesthetically undesirable discoloration. 5. Fungi, slimes, or other objectionable growths. 6. Turbidity to increase more than 10 percent over background levels. 7. The normal ambient pH to fall below 6.5, exceed 8.5, or change by more than 0.5 units. 8. Deposition of material that causes nuisance or adversely affects beneficial uses. 9. The normal ambient temperature to increase more than 5°F. 10. Taste or odor-producing substances to impart undesirable tastes or odors to fish flesh or other edible products of aquatic origin or to cause nuisance or adversely affect beneficial uses. 11. Radionuclides to be present in concentrations that exceed maximum contaminant levels specified in the California Code of Regulations, Title 22; that harm human, plant, animal or aquatic life; or that result in the accumulation of radionuclides in the food web to an extent that presents a hazard to human, plant, animal, or aquatic life. 12. Aquatic communities and populations, including vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant species to be degraded. 13. Toxic pollutants to be present in the water column, sediments, or biota in concentrations that adversely affect beneficial uses; that produce detrimental response in human, plant, animal, or aquatic life; or that bioaccumulate in aquatic resources at levels which are harmful to human health. 14. Violation of any applicable water quality standard for receiving waters adopted by the Board or the State Water Resources Control Board pursuant to the CWA and regulations adopted thereunder.