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Place ID 248062

General Information
Region	Place ID	Place Name	Place Type	Place Address	Place County
5S	248062	Perry Creek Winery	Winery	7400 Perry Creek Fair Play, CA, 95684-9207	El Dorado

Related Parties

Party	Party Type	Party Name	Role	Classification	Relationship Start Date	Relationship End Date
634883	Person	John Sweigart	Contact		08/15/2022
634882	Organization	John & Cindy Sweigart	Owner and Operator	Privately-Owned Business	08/15/2022

Total Related Parties: 2

Regulatory Measures

Reg Measure ID	Reg Measure Type	Region	Program	Order No.	WDID	Effective Date	Expiration Date	Status	Amended?
448885	Enrollee - Waiver	5S	WDRINDFP	R5-2020-0002	5A09NC00027	08/15/2022	02/20/2025	Active	N
446896	Unregulated	5S	DISCHSW			02/24/2022		Active	N
315551	Enrollee	5S	WDRINDFP	R5-2003-0106	5A09NC00027	07/25/2005	07/25/2020	Historical	N

Total Reg Measures: 3

Violations

Violation ID	Occurred Date	Violation Type	(-) Violation Description	Corrective Action	Status	Classification	Source
1114510	02/06/2023	LREP	Techncial Report required by 8 July 2022 submitted 123 days late.		Violation	B	Report
1118913	02/01/2023	LREP	No 2022 annual report was received		Violation	B	Report
1112171	01/11/2023	UAUTHDISC	Regional Board staff reached out to the Perry Creek Winery but received no response. In an effort to confirm the alleged violations, Regional Board Staff assigned to that area contacted owners of the adjacent properties and was granted permission to perform inspections of the impacted drainage from their respective properties. The inspection confirmed that the Discharger had been illegally discharging winery process wastewater and solids into the drainage. Board staff observed red/purple water in the drainage despite significant flow from recent rainfall, as well as the smell of wine, rotting lees and yeast. Based on visual and olfactory observations of staining and rotting fruit residues and photo and video evidence provided, Regional Board staff determined that the waste discharged into the drainage has created a threat to waters of the State and possibly waters of the US.		Violation	B	Complaint
1112172	01/11/2023	UAUTHDISC	Regional Board staff reached out to the Perry Creek Winery but received no response. In an effort to confirm the alleged violations, Regional Board Staff assigned to that area contacted owners of the adjacent properties and was granted permission to perform inspections of the impacted drainage from their respective properties. The inspection confirmed that the Discharger had been illegally discharging winery process wastewater and solids into the drainage. Board staff observed red/purple water in the drainage despite significant flow from recent rainfall, as well as the smell of wine, rotting lees and yeast. Based on visual and olfactory observations of staining and rotting fruit residues and photo and video evidence provided, Regional Board staff determined that the waste discharged into the drainage has created a threat to waters of the State and possibly waters of the US.		Violation	B	Complaint
1112173	01/11/2023	UAUTHDISC	Regional Board staff reached out to the Perry Creek Winery but received no response. In an effort to confirm the alleged violations, Regional Board Staff assigned to that area contacted owners of the adjacent properties and was granted permission to perform inspections of the impacted drainage from their respective properties. The inspection confirmed that the Discharger had been illegally discharging winery process wastewater and solids into the drainage. Board staff observed red/purple water in the drainage despite significant flow from recent rainfall, as well as the smell of wine, rotting lees and yeast. Based on visual and olfactory observations of staining and rotting fruit residues and photo and video evidence provided, Regional Board staff determined that the waste discharged into the drainage has created a threat to waters of the State and possibly waters of the US.		Violation	B	Complaint
1112174	01/11/2023	UAUTHDISC	Regional Board staff reached out to the Perry Creek Winery but received no response. In an effort to confirm the alleged violations, Regional Board Staff assigned to that area contacted owners of the adjacent properties and was granted permission to perform inspections of the impacted drainage from their respective properties. The inspection confirmed that the Discharger had been illegally discharging winery process wastewater and solids into the drainage. Board staff observed red/purple water in the drainage despite significant flow from recent rainfall, as well as the smell of wine, rotting lees and yeast. Based on visual and olfactory observations of staining and rotting fruit residues and photo and video evidence provided, Regional Board staff determined that the waste discharged into the drainage has created a threat to waters of the State and possibly waters of the US.		Violation	B	Complaint
1118914	12/31/2022	LREP	Processed and discharged on site more than 100,000 gallons of winery wastewater in 2022		Violation	B	Report
1103175	03/31/2022	UAUTHDISC	On 22 February 2022, in response to a complaint about an ongoing illegal discharge at the facility, Regional Board staff conducted an inspection at Perry Creek Winery (hereafter Discharger) and the surrounding area. At the time of the inspection the Discharger did not have WDRs permitting them to discharge waste to surface water, groundwater, or land. The inspection confirmed that the Discharger had illegally discharged winery process wastewater and solids into a drainage on the property. This is based on visual observations of staining and rotting fruit residues and discussion with winery staff (see attached Inspection Report). Regional Board staff concludes that winery waste had been discharged into the unnamed drainage on their property and has created a threat to waters of the State and possibly waters of the US.		Violation	B	Inspection
Report displays most recent five years of violations. Refer to the Interactive Violation Report for more data.

Total Violations: 8

Priority Violations: 0

*Click the "(+/-) Violation Description" link to expand and contract the violation description.
*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.

Violation Types
LREP = Late Report	UAUTHDISC = Unauthorized Discharge

Enforcement Actions

Enf Id	Enf Type	Enf Order No.	Effective Date	Status
315674	13267 Letter	null	07/28/2006	Historical

Total Enf Actions: 1

Inspections

Inspection ID	Inspection Type	Lead Inspector	Actual End Date	Planned	Violations	Attachment
50166695	B Type compliance inspection	Kenny Croyle	01/11/2023	N	0	Download
47048517	B Type compliance inspection	Kenny Croyle	02/24/2022	N	0	N/A

Total Inspections: 2

Last Inspection: 01/11/2023

The current report was generated with data as of: 05/31/2024
Regional Boards are in the process of entering backlogged data.
As a result, data may be incomplete.

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