San Diego Region - Enforcement Actions for April 2016

Enforcement Actions for April 2016

Staff Contact: Chiara Clemente

During the month of April, the San Diego Water Board issued 11 written enforcement actions as follows; 1 Expedited Payment Letter, 1 Administrative Civil Liability (ACL) Complaint, 1 Notice of Violation, and 8 Staff Enforcement Letters. A summary of each enforcement action taken is provided in the Table below. The State Water Board's Enforcement Policy contains a brief description of the kinds of enforcement actions the Water Boards can take.

Additional information on violations, enforcement actions, and mandatory minimum penalties is available to the public from the following on-line sources:

State Water Board Office of Enforcement webpage:
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/enforcement/

California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS):
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/ciwqs/publicreports.html

State Water Board GeoTracker database:
https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/

 

ENFORCEMENT DATE ENFORCEMENT ACTION FACILITY SUMMARY OF VIOLATIONS AND ENFORCEMENT APPLICABLE PERMIT/ORDER VIOLATED
04/15/2016 Expedited Payment Letter No. R9-2016-0022 Discharge to Sycamore Creek, Padre Dam Water Recycling Facility, Santee Executive Officer acceptance of expedited payment program related to two mandatory minimum penalties in the amount of $6,000. Nation Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Order No. R9-2009-0037
04/22/2016 Administrative Civil Liability Complaint

No. R9-2016-0092

 Settlers' Point/Brightwater Ranch, KB Home, Lakeside Proposed penalty in the amount of $875,166 for unauthorized discharge of fill to waters of the U.S. and State by KB Home. Clean Water Act section 301 and California Water Code Section 13376
04/07/2016 Notice of Violation Order No. R9-2016-0112 Carlsbad Desalination Project, Poseidon Resources (Channelside) LLC, Carlsbad Unauthorized discharge into Agua Hedionda Lagoon, failure to comply with effluent and receiving water limitations, and failure to monitor at approved minimum levels. NPDES Permit Order No. R9-2006-0065
04/05/2016 Staff Enforcement Letter Point Loma Ocean Outfall, City of San Diego Public Utilities Department, San Diego Inadequate laboratory controls and inappropriate quality assurance procedures. NPDES Permit Order No. R9-2009-0001
04/05/2016 Staff Enforcement Letter Otay Ranch Village 2 R6, SunRanch Capital Partners, Chula Vista Failure to implement appropriate Best Management Practices (BMPs). NPDES General Construction Storm Water Permit Order No. 2009-0009-DWQ
04/08/2016 Staff Enforcement Letter San Juan Creek Ocean Outfall, South Orange County Wastewater Authority, San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente Multiple exceedances of effluent limits for Total Suspended Solids, Carbonaceous Biological Oxygen Demand, and Settleable Solids, deficient monitoring reports, and failure to monitor at approved minimum levels. NPDES Permit Order No. R9-2012-0012
04/08/2016 Staff Enforcement Letter Encina Ocean Outfall, Encina Wastewater Authority, Carlsbad Deficient monitoring reports. NPDES Permit Order No. R9-2011-0019
04/08/2016 Staff Enforcement Letter Paradise Creek Phase 1, Paradise Creek Housing Partners LP, National City Failure to have a current Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) available onsite for review.

 

 NPDES General Construction Storm Water Permit Order No. 2009-0009-DWQ
04/08/2016 Staff Enforcement Letter Southern Regional Tertiary Treatment Plant, US Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton Exceedance of effluent limitations for Settleable Solids and deficient monitoring reports. NPDES Permit Order No. R9-2013-0112
04/13/2016 Staff Enforcement Letter Hanson Elementary School, Ramona Unified School District, Ramona

Exceedance of effluent limitations for nitrate and deficient monitoring reports.

Waste Discharge Requirements (WDR) Order No. R9-2004-0409
04/15/2016 Staff Enforcement Letter South Bay Water Reclamation Plant, San Diego Metropolitan Wastewater Department, San Diego Exceedance of maximum effluent limitations for chlorine. NPDES Permit Order No. R9-2013-0006