Section II: RECITALS. 1. VVWRA is a California Joint Powers Authority (JPA) that owns, operates, and maintains wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal facilities. Member agencies of the JPA are the City of Victorville, City of Hesperia, Town of Apple Valley, and two San Bernardino County service areas (Oro Grande and Spring Valley Lakes). VVWRA serves approximately 284,280 people within the northern portion of San Bernardino County.
Section II: RECITALS. 1. Irrigated agricultural discharges have been regulated by the Central Coast Water Board for over 15 years, since the adoption of the first agricultural order in 2004.2 On March 8, 2017, the Central Coast Water Board adopted the third Agricultural Order Conditional
Section II: RECITALS. 1. Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA) is the contract operator, and the Russian River County Sanitation District (RRCSD or District) (collectively, Dischargers) is the owner of the Russian River Wastewater Treatment Facility at 00000 Xxxxxx Xxxx, in Guerneville. The District also owns and is responsible for the wastewater collection system, including associated infrastructure that collects and carries wastewater from the service area to the Russian River Wastewater Treatment Facility (collectively, collection system). The Treatment Facility and the collection system are subject to the requirements of multiple regulatory orders including Regional Water Board Waste Discharge Requirements (WDR) Order No. R1-2014-0002 and State Water Resources Control Board Order No. 2006-003-DWQ, Statewide General WDRs for Sanitary Sewer Systems, as amended by Order No. WQ-2013-0058-EXEC (SSS General WDRs), and the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.).
Section II: RECITALS. 1. The Discharger is a Joint Powers Authority whose members are the West County Wastewater District, the City of Richmond, and the Richmond Municipal Sewer District. The City of Richmond and the Richmond Municipal Sewer District operate the Richmond Municipal Sewer District Water Pollution Control Plant (Richmond Plant), a municipal wastewater treatment plant that serves most of the City of Richmond. The West County Wastewater District owns and operates the West County Wastewater District Treatment Plant (West County Plant), a municipal wastewater treatment plant that serves the communities of San Pablo, Tara Hills, Rollingwood, Bayview, El Sobrante, portions of Pinole, parts of northern Richmond, and some unincorporated portions of Contra Costa County. Secondary-treated wastewater from the Richmond Plant and West County Plant is combined prior to discharge to Central San Francisco Bay.
Section II: RECITALS. 1. The Discharger is the owner and operator of the San Francisco Refinery located in Rodeo, Contra Costa County, California (the “Rodeo Refinery” or “Refinery”). The Rodeo Refinery receives crude oil and other feedstocks by tankers or pipelines, and delivers refined products to customers via tanker/barge, rail cars, trucks, and pipelines. Crude oil is processed at the site to produce gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, butane, fuel oil, and other petroleum products. Sulfur and petroleum coke are produced as by- products. The Discharger’s wastewater treatment plant treats about 2.7 million gallons per day (mgd) of process wastewater, boiler blowdown, cooling tower blowdown, sanitary wastewater, sour water stripper bottoms, groundwater, stormwater runoff, offsite wastewater generated at other ConocoPhillips owned facilities and/or remediation activities conducted by the Discharger, and cargo hold washwater. Treated wastewater is discharged to San Pablo Bay via a deepwater diffuser. The Rodeo Refinery is subject to the requirements set forth in Order No. R2-2005-0030, NPDES Permit CA 0005053.
Section II: RECITALS. 1. The Discharger is a water purveyor and operates a drinking water system in the greater San Xxxx metropolitan area. The Discharger operates and maintains a potable water main located near Xxxx Creek in San Xxxx.
Section II: RECITALS. 2. The Settling Respondent owns and operates a sanitary sewer collection system consisting of approximately 1.9 miles of gravity sewer pipeline, 5.8 miles of force main, and 3 pump stations. Wastewater collected by the Settling Respondent’s collection system is conveyed to its treatment plant for disposal. Treated wastewater is discharged to the Pacific Ocean, a water of the United States.
Section II: RECITALS. 1. The Discharger owns and operates the Grass Carp Hatchery (the “Hatchery”), which is located at 000 X. Xxxxx Road, El Centro, CA 92243. Process water flows by gravity from the Imperial Irrigation District’s Dogwood Canal into a holding pit and is subsequently pumped into two holding ponds. Water circulates through nine small earthen ponds, seven fiberglass pools, and ten fiberglass tanks used for raising grass carp fry. Water from the ponds flows by gravity into a holding pit via a filtering device to trap grass carp fry and eggs prior to discharge. Wastewater is discharged from the Hatchery to the Central Main Drain No. 5 (Drain), which is a tributary to the Alamo River. The Alamo River is a tributary of the Salton Sea. The Drain, the Alamo River, and the Salton Sea are waters of the United States. The Hatchery is subject to the requirements set forth in Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) Board Order No. R7-2005-0016, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Permit (NPDES) No. CA7000004.
Section II: RECITALS. 1. The City of Santa Xxxx (the “City”) at all times relevant to this matter is the owner and operator of the Oakmont Trunk Sewer Relocation Project located between Melita Road and the Oakmont Wastewater Treatment Plant in northeast Santa Xxxx, latitude 38.448841°N, longitude 122.626482˚W, in Sonoma County, California. The project relocated a section of an existing 44 year old sewer main trunk line (sewer line) which conveys raw sewage from the Oakmont retirement community to the City’s treatment facility. The sewer line was replaced upland away from Oakmont Creek due to stream bank erosion and maintenance factors. The project included three main components: 1) a gravel access road; 2) installation of 3000 feet of 18 inch polyvinyl chloride sewer line 100 to 300 feet south of its present location; and 3) abandonment of approximately 2,550 feet of 12 inch to 16 inch existing sewer line, which involved removal of the manholes to roughly 4 feet below existing ground surface and filling the sewer line with an air- entrained cement slurry mixture. The City contracted with Mountain Cascade Inc. to install the new sewer line and abandon the existing sewer line.
Section II: RECITALS. 1. The Discharger is the owner of the Collection System that serves the City of Sonoma and numerous unincorporated areas in the Sonoma Valley area in Sonoma County, California (the “Collection System”). The Collection System consists of approximately 135 miles of sewer pipe and two pump stations, and serves an approximate population of 16,452 equivalent single-family dwelling units. The Collection System is subject to the requirements set forth in Regional Water Board Order No. R2- 2002-0046 (NPDES Permit No. CA0037800 or “2002 NPDES Permit”), incorporating the Standard Provisions and Reporting Requirements for NPDES Surface Water Discharge Permits, August 1993, by reference and attachment. From December 1, 2008, to the present, the Discharger is subject to Order No. R2-2008-0090 (NPDES Permit No. CA0037800 or “2008 NPDES Permit”), incorporating the federal Standard Provisions (Version 2007-1) by reference and attachment.
