Meeting Notice and Agenda Items
Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
11 APRIL 2025
Thursday, 24 April 2025 - 10:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. (Board Tour)
Tulare Lake Compost Tour – For more information see the description below.
Friday, 25 April 2025 - 9:00 A.M. (Board Meeting)
CENTRAL VALLEY REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD
1685 E Street
Fresno, CA 93706
(In-Person and via Video and Teleconference)
How to Attend This Meeting:
This meeting will occur with both a physical meeting location and an option for the public
to participate remotely. A majority of the Board Members will be physically present at the
noticed meeting location above, consistent with the requirements of the Bagley-Keene
Open Meeting Act. Any person desiring to receive future notices about changes to the
date, time, location, or format of the public hearing should sign up for the GovDelivery email
list (https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/resources/email_subscriptions/reg5_subscribe.html).
Additional information for those wishing to attend remotely can be found below.
TO ATTEND IN PERSON:
If you would like to attend in person please use this address and link for directions.
TO WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE LIVECAST (NOT PARTICIPATING):
If you do not need to participate but would like to remotely watch and listen in to this
meeting, please subscribe to the Central Valley Water Board’s YouTube streaming
channel (https://www.youtube.com/@rb5s-zoomstreamingchannel475/streams).
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETING (via ZOOM):
Persons wishing to participate in the meeting via video or teleconference will need to
contact the Board by email to receive a Zoom Meeting ID and password prior to the
meeting by doing the following:
- Send an email to Agenda5@Waterboards.ca.gov
- In the Subject line, indicate: Agenda Item Number(s) you are interested in
- In the body of the email indicate:
- Your name.
- Who you represent (i.e., self, another person, an organization).
- Identify whether you intend to participate via videoconference (your computer microphone and speaker) or by telephone; and
- If calling in by telephone, please provide the last three digits of the telephone number you will be calling from.
The Board will respond to your email with the Zoom Meeting ID and password for the meeting. If you do not send an email by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, 24 April 2025, it is possible you will need to begin watching the webcast available on YouTube. You cannot participate in the Zoom meeting until you receive an email with the Zoom Meeting ID and password.
REASONABLE ACCOMODATIONS AND INTERPRETATION SERVICES:
This hearing will be offered in English. To request translation of written documents, interpretation services in another language, or sign language services, please use one of the following options no later than 14 April, 2025:
- Submit a Language Services Request online.
- Call the Office of Public Participation at (916) 341-5254; or
- Email the Office of Public Participation at opp-languageservices@waterboards.ca.gov.
Any person who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the 24-25 April 2025 Board hearing should contact Mindy Bunn via phone at (916) 464-4839 or via email at agenda5@waterboards.ca.gov no later than 14 April 2025.
Users of a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) may contact the California Relay Service at (800) 735-2929 or the teletype (TTY) voice line at (800) 735-2922.
Additional information on attending the meeting can be found on the Regional Board Meeting Calendar webpage.
Items on this Agenda are numbered for identification purposes only; the Board may consider these items out of their listed order.
Copies of the items to be considered by the Central Valley Water Board are posted on the Board’s Tentative Orders web page.
Items to be considered by the Board at the 24-25 April 2025 Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board Meeting, organized by agenda item number.
- Board Meeting Agenda - English | Español
- Executive Officer's Report
Thursday, 24 April 2025 - 10:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Board Business - Tulare Lake Compost Tour
Tulare Lake Compost Tour – The tour will view this state-of-the-art, 175-acre composting facility located near Kettleman City in Kings County, CA. At the facility, an eco-friendly process is used to combine agricultural and green waste from the Central Valley with biosolids from Los Angeles County to create an optimal mixture for composting. Non-waterboard staff will need to provide their own transportation.
If you are interested in attending this tour, you must RSVP via email to agenda5@waterboards.ca.gov on or before Monday, April 21, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. indicating the names of attendees. Water Board staff will provide an agenda with tour times, meeting locations, and driving directions. Space is limited, so please RSVP as soon as possible.
Friday, 25 April 2025 - 9:00 A.M.
BOARD BUSINESS
- Consideration of Minutes from the 21 February 2025 Board Meeting.
CONTESTED, DISCUSSION, INFORMATIONAL ITEMS
ENFORCEMENT - CEASE AND DESIST ORDER RESCISSION
- Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc., Terra Bella Pistachio Facility, Tulare County – Consideration of Rescission of Cease-and-Desist Order R5-2020-0038
THIS ITEM MOVED TO THE UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMITS
Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., Groundwater Extraction and Treatment Systems, Sacramento County – Consideration of NPDES Permit Amendment (NPDES Permit No. CA0083861)
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
(Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, § 647.2, subd. (f).)
Uncontested items are those items that are not being contested at the Board Meeting and will be acted on without discussion. If any person or Board Member requests discussion, the item may be removed from the Uncontested Calendar and taken up in the regular agenda in an order determined by the Board Chair.
THIS ITEM MOVED FROM THE CONTESTED CALENDAR
UNCONTESTED NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMITS
- Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., Groundwater Extraction and Treatment Systems, Sacramento County – Consideration of NPDES Permit Amendment (NPDES Permit No. CA0083861)
- Summary Sheet
- Cover Letter
- Amending Order
- Comments Received:
For a copy of the comments received, please contact Sarah Curry at (916) 464-4713 or email at Sarah.Curry@waterboards.ca.gov - Response To Comments
- Late Revisions - Underline/Strikeout - MS Word (posted 4/14/25)
- Notice of Public Hearing
UNCONTESTED WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS
- UNCONTESTED WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS
- County of Madera, Fairmead Landfill, Madera County – Consideration of Revised Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. R5-2022-0012
- Dry Ranch, LLC, G&G Andrew Farms Tenants in Common, Creekside Farms, LP Tenants in Common, Alkali Hollow Farms, Inc., and ATB Ranch, LP, Dry Ranch Pistachio Processing Facility, Madera County – Consideration of New Waste Discharge Requirements
- Granite Construction Company, Coalinga Aggregates, Fresno County – Consideration of New Waste Discharge Requirements
- Jamestown Trust II, County of Tuolumne, Whiskey Lake LP, Jamestown Property Development LLC, David and Susan Kaslin, John and Amy Curtin, Mike and Amber Doescher, Joshua and Misty Wilson, Jamestown Mine, Tuolumne County – Consideration of Revised Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. R5-2007-0083
- Cover Letter
- Waste Discharge Requirements
- Monitoring and Reporting Program
- Comments Received:
For a copy of the comments received, please contact Brad Shelton at (916) 464-1588 or email at Brad.Shelton@waterboards.ca.gov. - Response to Comments
- Notice of Public Hearing
UNCONTESTED RESCISSIONS
- UNCONTESTED RESCISSIONS
- Ballantyne Holdings, LLC, Former Marley
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Deuel Vocational Institution, San Joaquin County – NPDES Permit No. CA0078093
- County of Tulare, Tooleville Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Facility, Tulare County – Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. 88-139
- County of Tulare, Traver Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Facility, Tulare County – Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. 88-098
- The Wine Group LLC, Golden State Vintners D.B.A. Franzia McFarland Winery, Kern County – Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. R5-2015-0086
UNCONTESTED CHANGE OF NAME AND/OR OWNERSHIP OF FACILITIES
- UNCONTESTED CHANGE OF NAME AND/OR OWNERSHIP OF FACILITIES
- Red Dog Mining and Reclamation, LLC, Mining, Processing, and Reclamation, Blue Lead Gold Mine, Nevada County – Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. R5-2018-0044
