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General Information
Region Place ID Place Name Place Type Place Address Place County
3 S894060 Rice Ranch Valley View 1 Facility Rice Ranch Road Orcutt, CA, 93455 Santa Barbara

Expand/Contract Related Parties
Related Parties
Party Party Type Party Name Role Classification Relationship Start Date Relationship End Date
S661015 Organization Rice Ranch Ventures LLC N/A Private Business 03/25/2021
Total Related Parties: 1

Expand/Contract Regulatory Measures
Regulatory Measures
Reg Measure ID Reg Measure Type Region Program Order No. WDID Effective Date Expiration Date Status Amended?
S533852 Construction 3 CONSTW 2009-0009-DWQ 3 42C394085 06/09/2021 Terminated
Total Reg Measures: 1

Expand/Contract Violations
Violations
Violation ID Occurred Date Violation Type (-) Violation Description Corrective Action Status Classification Source
S894077 09/02/2025 FOP Failure to obtain coverage under the 2022 CGP by 09/01/2025. Violation B Internal Report
S888391 11/30/2023 MS4 Order Condition Failure to implement linear sediment controls. Continuation of these conditions was further alleged in the NOV dated 4/30/25. Violation B Inspection
S888389 11/30/2023 MS4 Order Condition failure implement controls, structures, and management practices that achieve BAT and BCT for conventional, non-conventional and toxic pollutants. Continuation of these conditions was further alleged in the NOV dated 4/30/25. Violation S Inspection
S888392 11/30/2023 MS4 Order Condition Failure to implement good site management (“housekeeping”) measures. (Supplemental entry: These conditions were also observed during Water Board staff's 4/24/24 inspection and in the Discharger's 5/29/24 and 7/3/24 photos submitted with its weekly reports. These later allegations are included in the NOV dated 4/30/25.) Violation B Inspection
S888394 11/30/2023 MS4 Order Condition Failure to implement effective soil cover for inactive areas and all finished slopes. Continuation of these conditions was further alleged in the NOV dated 4/30/25, Violation B Inspection
S888390 11/30/2023 Deficient BMP Implementation Failure to implement appropriate erosion control BMPs Violation B Inspection
S889175 02/08/2023 FOP 5 acres of ground disturbance for access road to municipal supply water tanks and access road to project from Orcutt Hill Rd / open space trailhead. First reported by SB County grading inspector February 8, 2023, requesting LRP to install ESC BMPs. Violation B Inspection
S888393 09/02/2022 LREP Failure to electronically certify and submit annual reports. 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 Annual Reports (AR) submitted 02/01/2024. 2021-2022 incorrectly entered "Construction was not active and had not begun for three months or longer within this annual reporting period." Clear and grub work started Sept 2021, mass grading began mid Nov 2021. Work through winter, no samples collected, job stop work orders by SB County for lack of SW compliance. 2022-2023 equally inaccurate. Continuation on these circumstances was further alleged in the NOV dated 4/30/25. Violation B Report
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
Deficient BMP Implementation = Deficient BMP Implementation FOP = Failure to Obtain Permit
LREP = Late Report MS4 Order Condition = MS4 Order Condition

Expand/Contract Enforcement Actions
Enforcement Actions
Enf Id Enf Type Enf Order No. Effective Date Status
S458926 Notice of Violation 09/05/2025 Active
S455842 Notice of Violation 04/30/2025 Historical
S453514 13383 Order R3-2024-0038 06/27/2024 Active
S453484 Notice of Non-Compliance for Non-Filers 03/15/2024 Historical
S452831 Notice of Violation 01/24/2024 Active
Total Enf Actions: 5

Expand/Contract Inspections
Inspections
Inspection ID Inspection Type Lead Inspector Actual End Date Planned Violations Attachment
S2066217 B Type compliance Michael Godwin 11/05/2024 N 0 N/A
S2064176 Enforcement Follow-up Michael Godwin 04/24/2024 N 0 N/A
S2063939 Enforcement Follow-up Michael Godwin 03/21/2024 N 0 N/A
S2064437 Complaint Michael Godwin 02/05/2024 N 0 N/A
S2063309 Complaint Jacqueline Tkac 11/30/2023 N 6 N/A
S2060300 B Type compliance Jacqueline Tkac 05/17/2023 N 0 N/A
Total Inspections: 6 Last Inspection: 11/05/2024
  
The current report was generated with data as of: 06/12/2026
Regional Boards are in the process of entering backlogged data.
As a result, data may be incomplete.
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