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Agriculture

• Agricultural Waivers Program
• Food Processing
• Salinity
• Winery Waste

Certification

• Operation Certification

Clean Beaches/Ocean Programs

• Algal Blooms
  • Blue-Green Algae
• Clean Beach Information
  • California Beach Water Quality Information Page
  • Beach Surveys: Warnings, Closures and Rain Advisories
  • Clean Beaches Initiative Grant Projects
• Coastal Marinas
  • Coastal Marinas Permit
  • Marinas and Recreational Boating - Nonpoint Source Program (USEPA)
    • Nonpoint Source Encyclopedia
• Coastal Power Plants
  • California Thermal Plan
  • CWA 316(b) Regulations
• Enclosed Bays and Estuaries
  • Sediment Quality Objective
• Ocean Water Quality
  • Ocean Standards
  • Areas of Special Biological Significance (Map)
  • ASBS Grants
• Vessel Discharges
  • Vessel Discharge Information (USEPA)
  • California Clean Coast Act (SB 771) - Vessel Discharges
  • Federal Vessel General Permit (USEPA)
    • State Water Board 401 Certification
      • Certification Order - Enclosure 1
      • Attachments
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • No Discharge Zones (USEPA)

Cleanup

• BPTCP - Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program
  • Sediment Quality Objectives
• Brownfields
• Department of Defense
• Perchlorate
• Sites with Deed Restrictions

Climate Change

• Climate Change

Data and Databases

• Californnia Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS) - Regulatory, compliance, and enforcement information
• DMR - Discharge Monitoring Reports
• Electronic Submittal of Information (ESI) to Geotracker

Education and Public Outreach

• Education
  • Environmental Justice
  • Kids Zone
  • Public Outreach
  • School Outreach
• Public Outreach
  • Erase the Waste Campaign
  • My Drinking Water
  • "No Drugs Down the Drain" Statewide Campaign, October 4-11, 2008
    • Safe Disposal of Household Medications
  • Public Participation

Funding

• Grants and Loans
• Proposition 13 - Water Board Program (2000)
• Recycling - Loans/Grants, Surveys
• Underground Storage Tanks (UST) Cleanup Fund Program

Groundwater

• Brownfields
• Containment Zone
• Groundwater Ambient Monitoring & Assessment Program (GAMA)
• Perchlorate
• Sites with Deed Restrictions
• Underground Storage Tanks (UST) Cleanup Fund Program
• Underground Storage Tanks (UST) Program

Impaired Water Bodies

• AB 982 (Ducheny) Public Advisory Group
• CSW Section 303(d) List / 305(b) Report (2008 Integrated Report) - List of Impaired Waters and Surface Water Quality Assessment. Clarification of Notice of Public Solicitation of Water Quality Data and Information (2/5/07)
  • 303(d)
    • 2006 Section 303(d) List of Water Quality Limited Segments (7/26/07)
    • 2002 Final Revision of Clean Water Act Section 303(d) List of Water Quality Limited Segments
    • 2002 and 2006 303(d) Administrative Record
    • Listing-Delisting Policy
  • 305(b)
    • Water Quality Assessments Report on the Condition of California Coastal Waters and Wadeable Streams (Clean Water Act, Section 305(b) Report) - October 2006
    • 2002 Clean Water Act Section 305(b) Report
• TMDL - Total Maximum Daily Load Program

Monitoring & Assessment

• A Compilation of Water Quality Goals
  Numerical water quality limits from the literature for over 850 chemical constituents and water quality parameters. The text of the report explains, with examples, how these limits may be used in the context of California's quality standards. A summary of relevant statutes, regulations, plans, and policies and a list of references are included.
• California Water Quality Monitoring Council (SB 1070)
• Citizen Monitoring - SWAMP's Clean Water Team (CWT)
• GAMA - Groundwater Ambient Monitoring Assessment
• SWAMP - Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program
  • SWAMP Reports and Documents
  • SMWP - State Mussel Watch Program
  • SWAMP Comprehensive Monitoring & Assessment Strategy - October 2005
  • SWAMP QAPP Advisor - A system to assist in writing Quality Assurance Project Plans
  • QAPP - Quality Assurance and Quality Control
  • TSMP - Toxic Substance Monitoring Program

Permit/Licensing

• Aquatic Pesticides
• Dredge/Fill (401) and Wetlands Program
• Form 200 - Waste Discharge Application/Report - General Information Form for Waste Discharge Requirements or NPDES Permits
  • Form 200 - Questions & Answers
• NPDES - National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
  • Storm Water
  • Wastewater
• Operator Certification
• Pollution Prevention
• Site Specific Water Quality Objectives - Draft Compilation of Existing Guidance for the Development of Site-Specific Water Quality Objectives in the State of California (8/22/03)
• Tank Tester Licensing Program
• Utility Vaults and Underground Structures
• Vessel Discharges
  • Vessel Discharge Information (USEPA)
  • California Clean Coast Act (SB 771) - Vessel Discharges
  • Federal Vessel General Permit (USEPA)
    • State Water Board 401 Certification
      • Certification Order - Enclosure 1
      • Attachments
    • Frequently Asked Questions
  • No Discharge Zones (USEPA)
  • Marinas and Recreational Boating - Nonpoint Source Program (USEPA)
    • Nonpoint Source Encyclopedia
• Waste Discharge Requirements Program

Runoff/Storm Water

• Low Impact Development
• Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source/NPS)
• Storm Water Program
  • CalTrans Program
  • Construction Program
  • Industrial Program
  • Municipal Program

Storage Tanks

• Aboveground Storage Tank
• California Leaking Underground Fuel Tank (LUFT) Historical Case Analyses
• Local Oversight Program/Local Agency Contacts
• Tank Tester Licensing Program
• Underground Storage Tanks (UST) Cleanup Fund Program
• Underground Storage Tanks (UST) Program

Wastewater

• Biosolids
• Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems: AB 885
• Sanitary Sewer Overflows
• Waste Discharge Requirements Program

Waste Disposal

• Land Disposal Program

Water Recycling

• Loans and Grants
• Recycled Water Use Survey
• Recycled Water Policy
• Statewide General Permit for Landscape Irrigation Uses of Recycled Water
• Statutes and Regulations

Water Rights

• Water Rights Homepage
• Bay Delta Program

Watershed

• Watershed Management

(Updated 6/19/09)