Enforcement

Current Enforcement Activities

• Olivehurst Public Utilities District Wastewater Treatment Plant Construction Could Satisfy Penalty for Effluent Violations (07/01/2008)
  • News Release, 42 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint
• Central Valley Water Board Assistant Executive Officer Proposes $36,000 in Penalties to the Placer County Sewer Maintenance District No. 1 Wastewater Treatment Plant (07/01/2008)
  • News Release, 45 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
• Central Valley Water Board Assistant Executive Officer Proposes $90,000 in Penalties to the Roseville Dry Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (07/01/2008)
  • News Release, 44 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint
• Central Valley Water Board Assistant Executive Officer Proposes Fine to Diablo Grande for Stormwater Violations in Stanislaus County (06/25/2008)
  • News Release, 119 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint
• Colfax and Colusa Face $700,000 in Combined Penalties for Watewater Violations (06/19/2008)
  • News Release, 123 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint, City of Colfax, Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint, City of Colusa, Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Central Valley Water Board Assistant Executive Officer Proposes $96,000 Penalty to Vacaville for Sewer Plant Violations (06/18/2008)
  • News Release, 126 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint
• Central Valley Water Board Assistant Executive Officer Proposes $303,000 Complaint to the Nevada County Sanitary District No. 1, Lake Wildwood (06/16/2008)
  • News Release, 121 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint
• Central Valley Water Board Assistant Executive Officer Proposes $126,000 Fine to Placer County and the City of Roseville For Sewage Spill (05/30/2008)
  • News Release, 121 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint
• Central Valley Water Board Assistant Executive Officer Issues $201,000 Complaint to Sacramento Area Sewer District for Sewage Spills in Sacramento County (05/30/2008)
  • News Release, 132 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  • Administrative Civil Liability Complaint

Enforcement Information

Enforcement Action Summary Reports for the Central Valley Water Board
The Regional Water Boards are posting, on a quarterly interval, information related to all enforcement activities since January 1, 2007 which are recorded in our data system. In addition, for administrative civil liability actions, we are providing information related to the initial assessment of the civil liability, the final assessment of civil liability and whether a hearing was waived. The initial table provides this information for the period January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007. Subsequent reports will be generated on a quarterly basis.

• 1 January to 31 December 2007, 50 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
• 1 January to 31 March 2008 , 22 KB, PDF (PDF Info)

In addition to the summary information provided by these quarterly reports, access to enforcement information on a real-time basis is available to the public. Such information can be accessed from the State Water Resources Control Board’s Internet webpage as follows:

Go to the State Water Board's website.

On the right-hand side, choose “Enforcement” to access the Water Board’s Enforcement webpage. Then go to:

• Enforcement Orders" for links to specific enforcement orders.
• CIWQS Database Public Records" for links to summary violation and enforcement reports, as well as facility reports.

• Water Quality Enforcement Policy, 522 KB, MS Word
• State Water Board Resolution No. 2002-0040, 28 KB, MS Word
• Resources referenced in the Water Quality Enforcement Policy
• User's Manual for BEN Model, 293 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
  
• Enforcement Program Report to the Board, January 2008 2.5 MB*, PDF (PDF Info)
• Enforcement Program Report to the Board, August 2006 285 KB, PDF (PDF Info)
• Enforcement Program Report to the Board, March 2005 230 KB, PDF (PDF Info)


• Enforcement Orders
• For additional information on Central Valley Water Board enforcement issues and actions, contact Dan Radulescu at (916) 464-4736 or by email at dradulescu@waterboards.ca.gov.