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| Wastewater ponds such as this are used to clean wastewater and make it good enough for irrigation. |
In a letter to the new General Manager of Murphys Sanitary District, Julio Guerra dated May 1, 2012, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality control Board wrote:
" The Murphys Sanitary District (MSD) wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) is regulated by the Water Board under Waste Discharge Requirements
(WDRs) Order 5-00-264, Monitoring and Reporting Program (MRP) 5-00-264, and Resolution R5-2007-0051 for the treatment of domestic wastewater with effluent discharge to Hay Station Ranch.
In January 2012, MSD hired a new General Manager who subsequently notified staff of previously unreported violations of the WDRs and MRP, which occurred in 2011.
These violations included bypass of treatment units, on-site storage of biosolids, and improper sampling and instrument calibration procedures.
In addition, the General Manager reported an increasing trend of nitrate in groundwater.
On April 13, 2012, MSDs General Manager and District Engineer met with Water Board staff, and presented an update and proposed corrective steps to address the aforementioned violations."
The Sierra Sentinel was just made aware of the 2011 violations and will follow up as to who is responsible and what will be a result. We have not yet found anything in the minutes of Board meetings that addresses this problem.
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