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General Information
Region Place ID Place Name Place Type Place Address Place County
5F 657458 West-Star North Dairy Animal Feeding 26953 Riverside Buttonwillow, CA, 93313 Kern

Expand/Contract Related Parties
Related Parties
Party Party Type Party Name Role Classification Relationship Start Date Relationship End Date
568696 Person Brian D Hitz Case Worker 11/02/2017
455949 Person Lorin Sutton Inspector 04/27/2010 11/01/2017
50498 Organization West Star Dairy Owner Privately-Owned Business 06/29/2007
525190 Organization Slegers, Bennett Operator Private-Individual 06/29/2007
137763 Organization Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, Fresno Office Regulating Waterboard 06/29/2007
Total Related Parties: 5

Expand/Contract Regulatory Measures
Regulatory Measures
Reg Measure ID Reg Measure Type Region Program Order No. WDID Effective Date Expiration Date Status Amended?
172280 Unregulated 5F ANIWSTCOWS 5C15NC00045 Historical N
334015 Enrollee - WDR 5F ANIWSTCOWS R5-2013-0122 5C15NC00045 06/29/2007 10/02/2018 Active N
Total Reg Measures: 2

Expand/Contract Violations
Violations
Violation ID Occurred Date Violation Type (-) Violation Description Corrective Action Status Classification Source
1150531 10/14/2025 Order Conditions The Dairy added manure drying areas outside the production area defined in the Dairy’s 2016 Waste Management Plan (2016 WMP). Failure to submit a Report of Waste Discharge (ROWD) with appropriate technical documentation at least 140 days prior to expanding the Dairy’s production area is a violation of Provision G.4. The manure drying areas, where observable appeared to create a condition of pollution which is a violation of Prohibition A.4 and did not appear to be designed to convey wastewater to the wastewater retention ponds which is a violation of Production Area Specification D.6. Following the inspection, Klay Mittel of Sentry Ag Services, LLC (consultant for the Dairy) submitted a ROWD with supporting technical documents. This violation is resolved. Violation B Inspection
Report displays most recent five years of violations. Refer to the Interactive Violation Report for more data.
Total Violations: 1 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
Order Conditions = Order Conditions

Expand/Contract Enforcement Actions
Enforcement Actions
Enf Id Enf Type Enf Order No. Effective Date Status
463892 Oral Communication 01/22/2026 Historical
402068 Notice of Violation null 07/14/2015 Historical
374043 Notice of Violation 07/19/2010 Historical
Total Enf Actions: 3

Expand/Contract Inspections
Inspections
Inspection ID Inspection Type Lead Inspector Actual End Date Planned Violations Attachment
61635532 B Type compliance inspection Brian D Hitz 10/14/2025 N 0 N/A
54850098 Miscellaneous inspection Brian D Hitz 02/13/2024 N 0 N/A
46166105 Miscellaneous inspection Brian D Hitz 12/21/2021 N 0 N/A
40570741 B Type compliance inspection Brian D Hitz 06/05/2020 N 0 [Attachments]
38692066 Miscellaneous inspection Brian D Hitz 12/19/2019 N 0 N/A
35152246 Miscellaneous inspection Brian D Hitz 01/25/2019 N 0 N/A
32057581 Miscellaneous inspection Brian D Hitz 03/29/2018 N 0 N/A
20703666 B Type compliance inspection Lorin Sutton 04/30/2015 N 0 Download
2296523 B Type compliance inspection Lorin Sutton 05/04/2010 N 2 N/A
1014650 B Type compliance inspection Kerry Elliott 01/18/2007 N 0 N/A
Total Inspections: 10 Last Inspection: 10/14/2025
  
The current report was generated with data as of: 02/06/2026
Regional Boards are in the process of entering backlogged data.
As a result, data may be incomplete.
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