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Please see the attached Memo provided by Doug Danz, Program Manager, Environmental Health, Butte County Public
Health.
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Subject: Memo to Brd on Notice of Viol re CSA 21 & 82
Please distribute this to the Board members and all other appropriate parties.
Doug Danz
Program Manager, Environmental Health
Butte County Public Health
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Date: October 4, 2019
To: Butte County Board of Supervisors
From: Doug Danz, Program Manager, Butte County Environmental Health
Radley Ott, Assistant Director, Butte County Public Works
Re: Butte County CSA 21 Skansen Pond/Rocky Bluffs and CSA 82 Sterling City
The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Water Board) Staff conducted an inspection
of Butte County CSA 21 and 82 on February 26, 2018, The inspection was made to document
compliance with the current Waste Discharge Requirements (WDR) and to determine eligibility for
enrollment under the State Water Resource Control Board Water Quality Order 2014-0153-DWQ,
General Waste Discharge Requirements (WDR) for small Domestic Wastewater Treatment Systems
(General Order).
Hence, on June 19, 2018 new WDR's were issued by the Water Board for both CSA 21 and 82. The
requirements for the new WDR's were different from those under the old WDR's and involve more
extensive monitoring and reporting criteria. Those requirements are found in the new Monitoring and
Reporting Programs (MRP) issued for each of the CSA's.
The new MRP's require an increase in monitoring activity including, amongst other things, monitoring of
septic tank scum and sludge, monitoring of ponds for dissolved oxygen and biochemical oxygen
demand, monitoring of pump controllers and automatic valves, monitoring of groundwater wells for
gradient direction, pH, and nitrates and the determination of system flow rates. The increase in
reporting requirements now includes, amongst other things, analytical comparisons, evaluations of
performance levels and discussions on compliance and potential deficiencies.
On June 21, 2019 the Water Board issued a Notice of Violation to Butte County Environmental Health
for the submittal of an Incomplete Monitoring report for CSA 21, Rocky Bluffs/Skansen Ponds and for
no submittal for CSA 82, Stirling City. Essentially the Notice of Violations had been issued because the
County had not responded to the increase in monitoring and reporting that was necessitated by the
new WDR's.
This increase in monitoring and reporting is not currently included in the scope of work for the
contractor who oversees CSA 21. It requires a higher level of analytical and reporting expertise from a
wastewater professional, Butte County Environmental Health does not have the expertise to fulfill these
additional monitoring and reporting requirements for CSA 21 or 82.
In response to the Notice of Violations on July 29, 2019 Butte County has reported to the Water Board
that it is pursuing the approval of interim contracts with NorthStar Engineering of Chico to provide the
new monitoring and reporting requirements for CSA 21 and CSA 82 as specified in the new MRP'S
associated with the revised WDR's. The Water Board has indicated that they are satisfied with this
course of action for mitigating the Notice of Violations. This interim contract is recognized as a 'short
term remediation' to the monitoring and reporting deficiencies. The execution of these contracts will
satisfy the new MRP requirements as well as provide the County time to secure a more sustainable
long term solution.