Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program

Getting to the Point about Nonpoint

Reducing Polluted Runoff

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Quick Links

• News and Publications
• Nonpoint Source Implementation and Related Programs
• Watershed Monitoring, Outreach and Education
• Nonpoint Source Projects – Local Assistance

News and Publications

• California's Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program – Stopping Water Quality Degradation at its Source
• NPS Encyclopedia
• Management Practice (MP) Miner: New Database Helps Reduce Nonpoint Source Pollution
• MP Miner Tool (10/02/08)
• Fourth Biennial NPS Conference – Integrated Watershed Management (Spring 2008)
• Low Impact Development (LID) Series – Part I: Landford Grading and Soil Ecology (1/17/08)
• NPS Success Stories! (1/15/08)
• NPS Annual Progress Report for Federal Clean Water Act Section 319 Program
• 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)
• Tracking & Monitoring Council (TMC)
• The "Runoff Rundown" - NPS Pollution Prevention Newsletter (Funded by the State Water Board)

Nonpoint Source Implementation and Related Programs

• Low Impact Development
• General Order requiring owners and operators of specified vessel terminals located in Newport Bay and Huntington Harbor to install, maintain, and operate pumpout facilities and dump stations to protect water quality. (12/2/04)
  • General Order
  • Fact Sheet
  • Response to Comments
• 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.
• Opportunity, Responsibility, & Accountability
  Relates successful grass roots actions being taken statewide to reduce polluted runoff.
• California's Colorado River Water Use Plan
• Links to Maps and Geographic Information System Related Websites
  

Watershed Monitoring, Outreach, and Education

• Citizen Monitoring
  Community based monitoring to protect your watershed.
• Environmental Justice

Nonpoint Source Projects – Local Assistance

• Agricultural Water Quality Grant Program
• Clean Water Act 319(h) Projects (1999-2005)
  Our state's federally funded water pollution reduction & watershed restoration projects.
• Contract Preparation Guide: Phase II 319(h) and Proposition 13 Projects
• Funding – Grants & Loans
  Funding may be available for your project.

(Updated 10/8/08)