Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program

Getting to the Point about Nonpoint

Reducing Polluted Runoff

(click to enlarge) Targets Environmental Priorities

(click to enlarge) Planning & Implementation Watershed Action

(click to enlarge) Regulatory Solutions

(click to enlarge) Nonpoint Source Implementation Tools

(click to enlarge) Tracking & Monitoring How Well Is It Working?

Quick Links

• Clean Water Act (CWA) §319(h) Nonpoint Source Grant Program
• News and Publications
• Nonpoint Source Implementation and Related Programs
• Nonpoint Source Projects – Local Assistance

News and Publications

• Water Quality Management Plan for National Forest System Lands in California (11/2/09)
• Coastal Marinas - Ongoing Development Information
• California's Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program – Stopping Water Quality Degradation at its Source
• Public Workshop - Using Green Infrastruture to Address Hydromodification Issues within the Arid West - March 9 & 10 (2/23/09)
• NPS Encyclopedia
• Management Practice (MP) Miner: New Database Helps Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution
• MP Miner Tool (revised link 07/25/12, posted 10/2/08)
• Contact the Management Practice (MP) Miner Database Staff
• NPS Annual Progress Report for Federal Clean Water Act §319 Program (2/13/09)
• Fourth Biennial NPS Conference – Integrated Watershed Management (Spring 2008)
• NPS Success Stories (1/15/08)
• NPS Tracking and Monitoring Management Practice Checklist Update Summary Report(s)
• California Nonpoint Source Program Five-Year Implementation Plan (July 2003 – June 2008)
• NPS Project Summaries (Updated January 2008)
• The "Runoff Rundown" - NPS Pollution Prevention Newsletter (Funded by the State Water Board)

Nonpoint Source Implementation and Related Programs

• New! Grazing Regulatory Action Project - (posted 10/11/12)
• California's Management Measures for Polluted Runoff
• Protecting California's Water Resources By Managing Polluted Runoff
  Information on California's NPS Pollution Control Program and Statewide NPS Program Plan.
• Policy for Implementation and Enforcement of the Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program
  (NPS Implementation and Enforcement Policy) - May 2004 – (posted 9/13/04)
• Fact Sheet on the NPS Implementation and Enforcement Policy - May 2004 – (posted 3/18/05)
• InterAgency Coordination for NPS Programs
• SWRCB Storm Water Program
  Reducing polluted runoff from urban areas.
• California's Colorado River Water Use Plan
• Links to Maps and Geographic Information System Related Websites
  
• Environmental Justice

Nonpoint Source Projects – Local Assistance

• Agricultural Water Quality Grant Program
• Contract Preparation Guide: Phase II §319(h) and Proposition 13 Projects

(Updated 4/3/13)