Violations
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Violation Type |
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Corrective Action |
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| 1114536 |
01/18/2023 |
Order Conditions |
1. The discharge of compost leachate into the unlined North Pond, a storm water pond located in a separate drainage beyond the defined limit of the site, as defined by the NOA after 30 November 2021, is a violation of Prohibitions 1 and 7, and Specifications 3, 4, and 6 of the Compost Genal Order, each of which is summarized below:
Prohibition 1 states: Any feedstock, additive, amendment, or compost (active, curing, or final product) stored, processed, or composted outside of the designated composting operation areas, as those boundaries are specified in an NOI and/or a technical report, and approved by the Regional Water Board, is prohibited.
Prohibition 7 states: Discharge of wastes including overflow, wastewater, or bypass from transport, treatment, storage, or disposal systems to adjacent drainages or adjacent properties is prohibited.
Specification 3 states: All feedstocks, additives, amendments, and compost (active, curing, or final product) must not cause, threaten to cause, or contribute to conditions of pollution, contamination, or nuisance. These discharges must comply with the applicable Basin Plan requirements.
Specification 4 states: All feedstocks, additives, amendments, and compost (active, curing, or final product) must be located on containment structures designed and constructed as required by this General Order.
Specification 6 states: Wastewater shall be handled and managed in accordance with an approved Water and Wastewater Management Plan in the technical report described in Attachment D. |
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Violation |
B |
Inspection |
| 1114537 |
01/18/2023 |
Order Conditions |
2. Compost leachate overtopping the East and West compost leachate ponds is a violation of Specification 3, and Section 1.c, 6, 7 of Design, Construction, And Operation Requirements – All Tiers of the Compost Genal Order, each of which is summarized below:
Specification 3 states: All feedstocks, additives, amendments, and compost (active, curing, or final product) must not cause, threaten to cause, or contribute to conditions of pollution, contamination, or nuisance. These discharges must comply with the applicable Basin Plan requirements.
Section 1.c states: Working surfaces and containment structures must be designed, constructed, operated and maintained to: Prevent conditions that could contribute to, cause, or threaten to cause a condition of contamination, pollution, or nuisance.
Section 6 states: Detention ponds, if used, must be designed, constructed, and maintained to prevent conditions contributing to, causing, or threatening to cause contamination, pollution, or nuisance, and must be capable of containing, without overflow or overtopping (taking into consideration the crest of wind-driven waves and water reused in the composting operation), all runoff from the working surfaces in addition to precipitation that falls into the detention pond from a 25-year, 24-hour peak storm event at a minimum, or equivalent alternative approved by the Regional Water Board.
Section 7 states: Detention ponds, if used, shall be managed as described in the facility’s Water and Wastewater Management Plan.
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Violation |
B |
Inspection |
| 1114538 |
01/18/2023 |
Order Conditions |
3. The presence of poor drainage, ponding, tire ruts, and statured compost at numerous location across the faciality are violations of: Section 1.a, 1.b, 1.c, and 3, of Design, Construction, And Operation Requirements – All Tiers of the Compost Genal Order, each of which is summarized below:
Section 1.a states: Working surfaces and containment structures must be designed, constructed, operated and maintained to: Facilitate drainage and minimize ponding by sloping or crowning pads to reduce infiltration of liquids.
Section 1.b states: Working surfaces and containment structures must be designed, constructed, operated and maintained to: Reliably transmit free liquid present during storage, treatment, and processing of materials to a containment structure to minimize the potential for waste constituents to enter groundwater or surface water; and
Section 1.c states: Working surfaces and containment structures must be designed, constructed, operated and maintained to: Prevent conditions that could contribute to, cause, or threaten to cause a condition of contamination, pollution, or nuisance.
Section 3 states: To prevent potential impacts to waters of the state, the Discharger must minimize the potential for piles of feedstocks, additives, amendments, or compost (active, curing, or final product) to become over-saturated and generate wastewater.
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Violation |
B |
Inspection |
| 1099367 |
09/22/2021 |
Order Conditions |
1. Ten gallons of liquid were removed from the West Pond Leak Detection sump (West Pond LD) on 30 July 2020, three gallons were removed on 31 August 2020, and six gallons were removed on 27 November 2020. However, no samples were collected from the West Pond LD during any of these three monitoring and liquid remove events, and no subsequent weekly monitoring after each liquid detection is documented in the corresponding monitoring report. Additionally, two gallons of liquid were removed from the Treatment Pond LD on 4 February 2021, one gallon was removed on 1 March 2021, and three gallons were removed on 24 June 2021. Once again, no samples were collected from the Treatment Pond LD during any of these three monitoring and liquid remove events, and no subsequent weekly monitoring after liquid detection is documented in the corresponding monitoring report.
Failure to collect samples and conduct weekly monitoring and sampling after liquid detections in the West Pond LD and the Treatment Pond LD are violations of Section A.2 of Attachment 2 of the General Order, which states in part:
…Upon detection of liquid in a previously dry monitoring device Discharger shall notify the Regional Water Board within 48 hours; collect a sample and analyze the liquid for the constituents listed in Table B-1; remove the liquid from the device; and continue to monitor weekly. If liquid reappears, another sample must be collected and analyzed for the constituents in Table B-1….
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Violation |
B |
Report |
| 1099368 |
09/22/2021 |
Order Conditions |
2. No liquid was detected in the East Pond LD and lysimeter during all of 2020 and through May 2021. However, on 21 June 2021 liquid was detected in the East Pond LD and 750-gallons of liquid was removed. Three days later on 24 June 2021, liquid was detected again in the East Pond LD and this time in the East Pond’s Lysimeter as well. As a result, 15-gallons of liquid was removed from the East Pond lysimeter and anther 750-gallons of liquid was removed from the East Pond LD.
Water Board staff was notified of the detection of liquid in the East Pond LD. However, even though the Discharger confirmed, as noted in the 2021 Semi annual Report, that the liquid observed in the East Pond LD and lysimeter was wastewater, the required Response Action Plan was not submitted within 30-days of the occurrence in violation of Section A.2 of Attachment 2 of the General Order, which states in part:
… If the liquid is confirmed to be wastewater, the Discharger must submit a Response Action Plan within 30 days for review and approval by the Regional Water Board.
In a follow-up September 2021 email, the Discharger states that additional liquid, beyond that noted above, was removed from the East Pond LD, that they have already identified the cause of the release, have repaired the liner, and that they will submit an East Compost Pond Geomembrane Repair CQA Report within two weeks. The Discharger also stated that the total volume of water removed from the East Pond LD and lysimeter will be noted in the semi-annual report, even though not all liquid measurement and removal events were recorded on the East Pond’s Pond Liquid Management log.
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Violation |
B |
Report |
| 1099369 |
09/22/2021 |
Order Conditions |
3. No surface water sampling results are provided from location SW-1 or SW-2. The NOA requires sampling of surface water sampling points SW-1 and SW-2. Failure to monitor and provide the data is a violation of the NOA. |
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Violation |
B |
Report |
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Report displays most recent five years of violations. Refer to the Interactive Violation Report for more data.
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Total Violations: 6
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Priority Violations: 0
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*As of 5/20/2010, the Water Board's Enforcement Policy requires that all violations be classified as 1, 2 or 3, with class 1 being the highest. Prior to this, violations were simply classified as Yes or No. If a 123 classification has been assigned to a violation that occurred before this date, that classification data will be displayed instead of the Yes/No data.
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