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.Coffee is <br /> grounds <br /> for lawsuit <br /> By STUART GORDON <br /> Bee staff writer <br /> MANTECA — Imagine <br /> waking up in the morning <br /> and turning on your water <br /> faucet to smell the aroma of <br /> coffee. <br /> The San Joaquin County <br /> district attorney's office and <br /> state water quality officials <br /> are sufficiently concerned <br /> about the potential for <br /> something like that hap- <br /> pening that they have gone <br /> to court to stop tons of cof- <br /> fee grounds from being <br /> dumped at a cattle ranch <br /> about 2 miles west of Man- <br /> teca. <br /> The coffee grounds, <br /> stored in the open on the <br /> ground, are a byproduct of <br /> the manufacture of instant <br /> coffee at the Nestle's Food <br /> Corp. plant in Ripon. <br /> The staff of the state Re- <br /> gional Water Quality Con- <br /> trol Board believes the by- <br /> product could percolate <br /> into the groundwater sup- <br /> ply, where it might eventu- <br /> ally end up in nearby wells <br /> and waterways. <br /> Robert Ronyak has been <br /> hauling the coffee slag <br /> from the Nestle's plant for <br /> about 10 years to his cattle <br /> ranch, F&W Cattle Co., at <br /> 19051 S. McKinley Ave. on <br /> See Back Page, COFFEE <br />