WQ0004268_SOC_20151216

Del Monte Foods, Inc.
Cultivating Good Food for a Better Life
December 16, 2015
Mr. Nathanial Thornburg, PE
NCDEQ DWR Water Quality Permitting Section
Non -Discharge Unit
512 N. Salisbury Street
Raleigh, NC 27604
Ms. Belinda S. Henson, Regional Supervisor.
NCDEQ Division of Water Resources
225 Green Street, Suite 714
Fayetteville, NC 28301-5043
SUBJECT: Sager. Creek Vegetable Company, Turkey, NC
Wastewater Irrigation System Permit No. WQ.0.004268.
Process Water Lagoon Freeboard Corrective Action Plan
Dear Mr. Thornburg and Ms. Henson:
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Thank you for meeting with us on December 2, 2015, in Fayetteville to discuss our current Sager
Creek Vegetable Company, Turkey, NC process water lagoon freeboard limit challenges and our
proposal to develop a corrective action plan.
We very much appreciated your constructive input as well as all of the historical background
information that you provided for .our facility in the meeting. This input and 'background
information will be used by us in crafting and completing the necessary 'study tasks required for
development of our factory corrective action plan.
Pursuant to our meeting discussions this is to confirm that we seek to complete corrective actions
at our factory under the terms of a Special Order of Consent ("SOC"). We plan to file the required
application forms for you to develop the SOC on or before January 31, 2016.
Be assured that our goal is to develop and implement lastingcorrective actions at our factory that
will bring our systems back into full compliance with lagoon freeboard requirements on a year-
round basis.
We agree with you that our site is complex and for this reason we truly appreciate your open
willingness to work with us on the time frame for our study and the phasing of any necessary site
improvements that may be identified in our final corrective action plan.
Del Monte Foods, 205 N. WigetLane, Walnut Creek, CA 94598

Sager Creek Veg. Co., Turkey, NC
WW Irrigation System Permit No. WQ0004268
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Our corrective action plan will likely be complex and may include different processing of crops,
reduced plant production, modified Or new storage ponds, new spray irrigation fields, changes to
factory manufacturing practices, in -plant water flow reductions, or some combination of all of
these actions to bring systems back into hydraulic balance moving into future years.
Note that our consultant has already started to work on the design for upgrading our factory
domestic sanitary wastewater systems and we plan to submit the required permit application for
these new systems before March 1, 2016.
Please be assured that we are committed to 'correcting things at our factory and we look forward
to your input and support as we move forward to develop and implement our factory corrective
action plan.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do nothesitate to contact Dan Barnett at our Sager
Creek Turkey Factory at [phone] or me at [phone].
Sincerely,
DEL MONTE FOODS, INC.
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Timothy P. Ruby
Environmental Water Manager
cc: Dan Barnett, Sager Creek Vegetable Company
Mark Fields, Sager Creek; Vegetable Company
Reed Wells, Sager Creek Vegetable Company
Allen Mize, Del Monte Foods, Inc.
James Barber, NCDEQ
Tony Honeycutt, NCDEQ