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AGENCY NAME: Musco Family Olive Company and the Studley Company Page 2 FACILITY NAME: Wastewater Treatment &Land Disposal Facility SECTION A—FILE REVIEW 1. Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) Order No. R5-2002-0148, adopted 6 September 2002, regulates the wastewater discharged to the 1-million gallon settling pond (hereafter settling pond) and to land application areas. In mid-December, the Discharger completed a new 84-million gallon storage reservoir(hereafter storage reservoir). The storage reservoir had been planned and designed when the WDRs were adopted and the WDRs prescribe discharge specifications for it. The associated Monitoring and Reporting Program(MRP) requires monitoring of any new or temporary ponds that are constructed, which includes the new storage reservoir. 3. See comment 9, Section D for more details. 4. Self-monitoring reports (SMRs) do not include all the information required by the MRP. See comment 9, Section D for more details. 5. SMRs reveal violations of Discharge Specification B.5 and Effluent Limitation C.1. See comment 9, Section D for more details. SECTION B —INSPECTION OBSERVATIONS 1-5, 8. The inspection did not include a review of the facility's records, staff training and certification, or equipment calibration. Only the facility's industrial processes and wastewater storage and disposal areas were inspected. 6. It is unknown at this time the extent to which, if any, the current sampling port from the settling pond provides representative samples of the discharge during prolonged periods of no irrigation. See comment 9, Section D for more details. 7. See comment 9, Section D for more details. 9. Although the storage reservoir was not completed when the WDRs were adopted, the WDRs describe it with the facility description and include it in the facility and land application area map. 10. See comment 9, Section D for more details. 11. The Discharger does not measure daily storm water flow, which is necessary to determine compliance with the discharge limit. See comment 9, Section D for more details. SECTION C —CONTROL ASSESSMENT 6. Groundwater quality has not been fully established, but the Discharger is in the process of expanding its monitoring well network. See comment 9, Section D for more details. 7. See comment 9, Section D for more details.