State Water Boards: Nonpoint Source Program

Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution Control Program

NPS 319 (h) Projects - Region 9 San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board

GRANT YEARS 1999-2005

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Map of the Watersheds and their related NPS CWA Water Quality Implementation Projects

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Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
1999	Assessing Effectiveness of various BMPs for Underwater Hull Cleaning	Southern California Coastal Water Research Project	0-025-259-0	$42,000	7/1/00-6/30/01
	Project Description: The goal of this project is to assess the effectiveness of current underwater hull cleaning techniques and determine which techniques are most efficient while reducing copper emissions to a minimum. For further information, please contact Kenneth Schiff at 714/372-9202.
	Project Outcome: (coming soon)

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
1999	Roberts Ranch Watershed Restoration	U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Cleveland National Forest	9-130-259-0	$27,000	4/15/00-6/30/03
	Project Description: This project has restored degraded (reduced quality) riparian (stream & river) and meadow areas within the Roberts Ranch Watershed. For further information, please contact Ron Wright at 760/788-0250.
	Project Outcome: (10/2005 Update) The initial project stage has been long completed & is still working reasonably well. However, the State Water Board managed funds (the $27,000) were deprogrammed & not used in this project. Plans are now under way for some further successful expansion of the project over the next few years with Cal Trans to control increasing drainage off Interstate 8 near the initial project site.

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
2000	Citizen Watershed Monitoring Program	San Diego BayKeeper	0-096-259-0	$31,425	12/1/00-3/1/02
	Project Description: This project will increase citizen understanding of storm-water pollution that impacts San Diego Bay, Mission Bay, and the Region’s Coastal areas. The project will also include expanding monitoring programs to include Seventh Street Channel/ Paleta Creek Watershed. For further information, please contact Joe Carrey at 619/299-4484.
	Project Outcome: (coming soon)

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
2000	Nontoxic Recreational Boat Hull Paint Demonstration	Regents of U.C., Oakland	0-145-259-0	$129,283	2/1/01-4/30/04
2000	Project Description and Outcome: (2/2007 Update) This project created a high-profile, widely extended, education and outreach program based on an educational field demonstration of nontoxic hull coatings on recreational boats in San Diego Bay. Thirty seminars, conferences, booth events and field days were held with an overall turn out of over 1800 people attending. Articles appeared in nine community newsletters and eleven articles appeared in boating publications. About 5,600 copies of the technical reports were distributed by the project’s end. A television documentary was created and aired several times statewide. Approximately 70% of the people who attended the seminars, conferences and field days were affected positively and expressed the desire and motivation to do something to lessen their negative impact on the environment, and to increase conservation of our natural resources. For more information please visit the website at http://seagrant.ucdavis.edu.

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
2001	Santa Margarita Home to Ocean - A Citizen's Water Quality Monitoring Program	Mission Resource Conservation District (RCD)	1-116-259-0	$54,302	2/15/02-3/15/04
	Project Description: This project has implemented a citizen-based volunteer water quality monitoring program to increase public awareness of Santa Margarita watershed issues. For further information please contact Judy Mitchell at 760/728-1332.
	Project Outcome: (10/2005 Update) A Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) was completed, a group of technical advisors was created & functioned also to interpret water quality (WQ) analyses, over 70 people attending volunteer outreach & training events before water quality monitoring commenced. During WQ monitoring, over 40 people were trained in WQ & bioassessment sampling and results analyses techniques, samples were analyzed from 29 sites, and 4 macroinvertebrate (visible aquatic insects, and other aquatic invertebrates large enough to be seen & identified without magnification) bioassessments to determine stream WQ by analyzing aquatic insect & other visible aquatic invertebrates population characteristics were completed.

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
2001	STAR: Simple Technology Against Runoff	The Nature Institute	1-120-259-0	$42,000	2/15/02-8/30/05
	Project Description: This project has demonstrated the use of simplified catchment basin and weir design to augment wetland function in mitigating NPS pollution (or polluted runoff) discharged into waterways during dry weather. For further information, please contact Dr. Robert LaRosa at 619/229-1092.
	Project Outcome: (10/2005 Update) Three catchment basins and weirs have been constructed & are already operating successfully. These basins will fill in with vegetation this spring in 2006. Soil filtration of dry weather urban runoff is currently removing essentially all of the sediment and converting almost all of the toxic compounds in urban dry weather run off to either biologically inert forms or to less toxic forms. These three catchment basins drain three differently sized and variously built up urban areas; and treat approximately 10,000 gallons/year dry weather runoff; 30,000 gallons/year; and 500 gallons/day dry weather runoff, respectively. The resulting runoff water after extensive plant roots develop in these treatment areas in spring, adding natural plant adsorption and absorption processes to the existing soil microbe toxics reduction, is expected to result in no or almost no measurable toxic runoff to any receiving waters. In other words, the expected result of these systems is no remaining toxic urban runoff after this spring’s plant growth or almost none.

Grant Year	Project Title	Contracting Agency	Contract Number	Amount Awarded	Term
2002	Mission Bay Citizen Water Quality Monitoring and Education Program	--	02-184-559-0	--	9/2003 - 12/2006
	Project Description: Mission Bay Park, the West Coast’s largest aquatic park, is listed as an impaired water body under the Clean Water Act due to its high levels of coliform bacteria, lead, and nutrients. Because of the park’s significance as a habitat for indigenous (native) species and a human recreational area, the University of San Diego developed this program. This program recruits and trains citizen monitors, and engages the public through education and outreach. Effort toward water quality data sharing with government agencies and stakeholders is also involved.
	Project Outcome: (coming soon)

( updated 2/9/08 )