Violation ID |
Occurred Date |
Violation Type |
(-) Violation Description |
Corrective Action |
Status |
Classification |
Source |
1139093 |
12/28/2024 |
Order Conditions |
Log Deck pond exceeded its freeboard requirement on December 28, 2024 thru December 31, 2024. |
Pond level caused by equipment issues with the VSEP unit and plant processing issues caused by wet fuel. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1139089 |
12/28/2024 |
Order Conditions |
Power Plant pond exceeded its freeboard requirement on December 28, 2024 thru December 31, 2024. |
Freeboard issues due to equipment issues with VSEP unit and plant processing issues caused by wet fuel. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1138310 |
11/24/2024 |
Order Conditions |
Log Deck Pond exceeded the 2ft Freeboard requirement from 11/24/2024 to 12/14/2024. The power plant was unable to process water the entire month of November. In addition, there was an atmospheric river event week of November 21 which dropped 1.5 ft of snow followed with five (5) inches of rain. |
Water Board was promptly notified. Five (5) 20,100 tanks were rented to hold as much water as possible. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1138309 |
11/22/2024 |
Order Conditions |
Power Plant Pond exceeded the 2ft Freeboard requirement from 11/22/2024 to 12/10/2024. The power plant was unable to process water the entire month of November. In addition, there was an atmospheric river event week of November 21 which dropped 1.5 ft of snow followed with five (5) inches of rain. |
Notification was promptly made to water board. Facility rented five (5) 20,100 gallon tanks to hold as much water as possible. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1125103 |
02/14/2024 |
Order Conditions |
The allowed increase in receiving water turbidity was exceeded. The allowed increase in receiving water turbidity based on the RSW-001 samples result of 2.82 NTU is +1 NTU. The RSW-002 sample result of 4.31 NTUs is an increase of 1.49 NTUs. |
The BMP Improvement Evaluation, submitted on 3/9/2020, will continue to be implemented and the BMPs will continue to be revitalized. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1125100 |
02/01/2024 |
Order Conditions |
The allowed increase in receiving water turbidity was exceeded. The allowed increase in receiving water turbidity based on the RSW-001 samples result of 3.48 NTUs is + 1 NTU. The RSW-002 sample result was 5.76 NTUs, which was an increase of 2.26 NTUs. |
The BMP Improvement Evaluation, submitted on 3/9/2020, will continue to be implemented and the BMPs will continue to be revitalized. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1124331 |
01/03/2024 |
Order Conditions |
The allowed increase in receiving water turbidity was exceeded. The allowed increase in receiving water turbidity based on the RSW-001 sample result of 5.23 ntu was a 20% increase. The RSW-002 sample result was 8.1 ntu which was an increase of 54%. |
The BMP Improvement Evaluation, submitted on 03/09/2020, will continue to be implemented and the BMPs will continue to be revitalized. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1112239 |
01/02/2023 |
LREP |
Monthly SMR ( MONNPDES ) report for November 2022 (2418694) was due on 01-JAN-23 |
|
Violation |
B |
Report |
1112512 |
12/31/2022 |
Order Conditions |
The Discharger violated the pond freeboard requirements, specified in section VI.C.4.a.iv. of their permit, at LND-003 on 12/7/22, 12/14/22, 12/21/22, and 12/28/22. |
|
Violation |
B |
Report |
1105939 |
01/03/2022 |
Other Water Code Sections |
Violation of CWC section 13376. Failure to provide a report of discharge 180 days in advance of the discharging from the log deck recycling pond to Canyon Creek, a water of the U.S. |
|
Violation |
B |
Report |
1105935 |
01/03/2022 |
Order Conditions |
Violation of R5-2019-0048 Discharge Prohibition III.A. |
|
Violation |
B |
Report |
1105936 |
01/03/2022 |
Order Conditions |
Violation of R5-2019-0048 Discharge Prohibition III.B. |
|
Violation |
B |
Report |
1105937 |
01/03/2022 |
Order Conditions |
Violation of R5-2019-0048 Discharge Prohibition III.D. |
|
Violation |
B |
Report |
1105938 |
01/03/2022 |
Order Conditions |
Violation of R5-2019-0048 Discharge Prohibition III.F. |
|
Violation |
B |
Report |
1101297 |
01/03/2022 |
UAUTHDISC |
Unauthorized discharge occurred at log deck pond due to freezing temperatures causing drain valve to fail, which allowed log deck pond water to be discharged from the site. |
Replaced valve with a freeze-tolerant valve |
Violation |
B |
eSMR |
1099690 |
12/14/2021 |
Order Conditions |
Based on results reported for the storm water discharge samples collected on December 14, 2021 at monitoring locations RSW-001 and RSW-002, the allowed increase in receiving water turbidity was exceeded. The allowed increase in receiving water turbidity based on the RSW-001 sample result was 20% and the total increase was 83%. This was the result of the large rain event directly preceding this sampling event. |
A BMP Improvement Evaluation was conducted to address turbidity, and submitted on 3/9/2020. These BMPs will be revitalized. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1098318 |
11/09/2021 |
Order Conditions |
Based on results reported for the storm water discharge samples collected on November 9, 2021 at monitoring locations RSW-001 and RSW-002, the allowed increase in receiving water turbidity was exceeded. The allowed increase in receiving water turbidity based on the RSW-001 sample result was 20% and the total increase was 25%. This may have been the result of the large rain event directly preceding this sampling event. |
A BMP Improvement Evaluation was conducted to address turbidity, and submitted on 3/9/2020. These BMPs will be revitalized. |
Violation |
U |
eSMR |
1084928 |
12/17/2020 |
ATOX |
Acute Toxicity-Rainbow Trout-survival Instantaneous Minimum limit is 70 % survival and reported value was 60 % survival at EFF-001. |
Resampling was conducted on this effluent on 1/11/2021 which results in 100% survival. |
Violation |
B |
eSMR |
1075201 |
04/27/2020 |
DMON |
Flow was not measured. However, the Discharger estimates that the flow was 1027122 GPD at EFF-001. |
The corrective action put in place is to have the oncoming shift operator verify the previous operator has taken the flow measurement. |
Violation |
B |
eSMR |
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