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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD <br /> CENTRAL VALLEY REGION <br /> ORDER NO. 5-01-148 <br /> WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS <br /> FOR <br /> FOX VALLEY CORPORATION <br /> AND <br /> FOX RIVER PAPER COMPANY <br /> RIPON MILL <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter Board) <br /> finds that: <br /> 1. Fox Valley Corporation and Fox River Paper Company(hereafter Discharger) own and <br /> operate a paper mill in Ripon. The paper mill is referred to as the Ripon Mill. The paper <br /> processing generates wastewater that the Discharger applies to land within the mill <br /> property. The mill is located in Section 29, T2S, R8E, MDB&M, as shown on Attachment <br /> A, which is incorporated herein and made part of this Order. <br /> 2. The Discharger may discharge a daily maximum of 2.5 million gallons of combined treated <br /> industrial wastewater and storm water runoff to 98 acres of 228 acres owned by Fox River <br /> Paper Company(APN No. 259-340-01 and 259-340-02). The land application achieves <br /> disposal of the wastewater by percolation, evaporation, and irrigation of the fields. The <br /> discharge areas are shown on Attachment B, which is incorporated herein and made part of <br /> this Order. <br /> 3. The Discharger proposes to close an inactive sludge impoundment. The details of this <br /> closure were submitted in a Closure Plan dated February 2001. The inactive sludge <br /> impoundment will be closed in place. The location of the inactive impoundment is shown <br /> on Attachment B. <br /> SITE DESCRIPTION <br /> 4. The Discharger manufactures several grades of fine papers from purchased pulps including <br /> virgin bleached pulp, deinked post-consumer waste, and waste paper(secondary fiber). <br /> The mills maximum daily production rate is 200 tons of paper. Process water is added to <br /> bales of pulp to make pulp slurry that is made into paper. Dyes, starches, rosins, inorganic <br /> materials, such as clay and titanium dioxide and alum, are also added to the slurry during <br /> the papermaking process. The water that drains from the paper("white water") is recycled• <br /> to be used in the makeup of additional pulp slurry. The "white water" holding tank and <br /> stock chests are dumped when colors are changed which may be as often as 2 to 3 times per <br /> day. Periodically, (once a month) the entire paper machine system is cleaned ("boiled out") <br />