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WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS ORDER R5-2015-0058-01 -38- SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS FOOTHILL SANITARY LANDFILL, INC. FOOTHILL LANDFILL SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 158. This Order is issued in part pursuant to Water Code section 13263, subdivision (a), which provides as follows: The regional board, after any necessary hearing, shall prescribe requirements as to the nature of any proposed discharge, existing discharge, or material change in an existing discharge…, with relation to the conditions existing in the disposal area … into which, the discharge is made or proposed. The requirements shall implement any relevant water quality control plans that have been adopted, and shall take into consideration the beneficial uses to be protected, the water quality objectives reasonably required for that purpose, other waste discharges, the need to prevent nuisance, and the provisions of [Water Code] Section 13241. 159. This Order implements the Central Valley Water Board’s Water Quality Control Plan for the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basins (Basin Plan), which designates beneficial uses for surface water and groundwater and establishes water quality objectives (WQOs) necessary to preserve such beneficial uses. (Wat. Code, sec. 13241 et seq.). 160. The State Water Resources Control Board’s (State Water Board) Statement of Policy with Respect to Maintaining High Quality Waters in California, Resolution 68-16 (Antidegradation Policy) prohibits the Central Valley Water Board from authorizing degradation of “high quality waters” unless it is shown that such degradation: (1) will be consistent with the maximum benefit to the people of California; (2) will not unreasonably affect beneficial uses, or otherwise result in water quality less than as prescribed in applicable policies; and (3) will be subject to WDRs requiring implementation of the best practicable treatment or control. 161. Consistent with Title 27, this Order requires the Discharger to maintain the Facility to contain waste within WMUs, thereby preventing degradation of water quality. To the extent that there are releases from Facility WMUs, the Discharger will be required to address such releases through a Corrective Action Program. (See Title 27, §§ 20385, 20415, 20430). Because this Order does not authorize any degradation in water quality, it complies with the Antidegradation Policy. 162. Water Code Section 13267(b) provides that: “In conducting an investigation specified in subdivision (a), the Central Valley Water Board may require that any person who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of discharging, or who proposed to discharge within its region, or any citizen or domiciliary, or political agency or entity of this state who had discharged, discharges, or is suspected of discharging, or who proposed to discharge waste outside of its region that could affect the quality of the waters of the state within its region shall furnish, under penalty of perjury, technical or monitoring program reports which the Central Valley Water Board requires. The burden, including costs of these reports, shall bear a reasonable relationship to the need for the reports and the benefits to be obtained from the reports.”