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WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS ORDER R5-2012-0103 - 22 - CONSTELLATION BRANDS U.S. OPERATIONS, INC. dba WOODBRIDGE WINERY WOODBRIDGE WINERY SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY requirements to comply with Resolution 68-16. Based on the existing record, the discharge is consistent with the antidegradation provisions of Resolution 68-16. The use of winery wastewater to irrigate crops in place of higher quality surface or ground water supplies is a benefit to the people of the State. This Order establishes requirements to ensure the discharge will not unreasonably threaten present and anticipated beneficial uses or result in groundwater quality that exceeds water quality objectives set forth in the Basin Plan. 65. OTHER REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS California Water Code section 13267(b) provides that: “In conducting an investigation specified in subdivision (a), the regional board may require that any person who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of having discharged or discharging, or who proposes to discharge waste within its region, or any citizen or domiciliary, or political agency or entity of this state who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of having discharged or discharging, or who proposes to discharge, waste outside of its region that could affect the quality of waters within its region shall furnish, under penalty of perjury, technical or monitoring program reports which the regional board requires. The burden, including costs, of these reports shall bear a reasonable relationship to the need for the report and the benefits to be obtained from the reports. In requiring those reports, the regional board shall provide the person with a written explanation with regard to the need for the reports, and shall identify the evidence that supports requiring that person to provide the reports.” The technical reports required by this Order and the attached Monitoring and Reporting Program R5-2012-0103 are necessary to assure compliance with these WDRs. The Discharger owns and operates the facility that generates the waste subject to this Order. 66. California Department of Water Resources standards for the construction and destruction of groundwater wells is described in California Well Standards Bulletin 74-90 (June 1991) and Water Well Standards: State of California Bulletin 94-81 (December 1981). These standards, and any more stringent standards adopted by the state or county pursuant to Water Code section 13801, apply to all monitoring wells. 67. The discharge authorized herein is exempt from the requirements of Consolidated Regulation for Treatment, Storage, Processing, or Disposal of Solid Waste, as set forth in Title 27, California Code of Regulations, Division 2, Subdivision 1, Section 20005 et seq. (hereafter Title 27). The exemption, pursuant to Section 20090(b), 20090(f), and 20090(h) is based on the following: a. The operation of the lined wastewater treatment and storage ponds, and the application of treated wastewater to the LAAs is exempt based on Section 20090(b): i. The Central Valley Water Board has issued waste discharge requirements. ii. This discharge is in compliance with the Basin Plan. iii. The wastewater does not need to be managed according to Title 22 CCR, Division 4.5, Chapter 11, as a hazardous waste.