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<title>State Water Boards: Performance Report</title>
  <h1> The California Water Boards' Annual Performance Report - Fiscal Year 2009-10
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  <p class="blueSubtitle">What We Do and How We are Doing</p>
  <p>The State and Regional Water Boards are California's regulatory agencies responsible for ensuring that the quality of the State's rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, ocean, and groundwaters is protected. To protect our water resources, the Water Boards set water quality standards in plans and policies, monitor and assess the <a href="index.shtml">State's waters</a>, regulate identified pollutant sources, and enforce compliance with regulatory requirements. The State Water Board is solely responsible for providing funding for others' water quality protection activities, allocating surface water rights, and reviewing petitions that contest Regional Water Board actions. </p>
  <strong class="greenSubtitle">State Water Board</strong>
  <p>The State  Water Board, located in Sacramento,  is solely responsible for ensuring that State surface water supplies are  properly allocated and efficiently used through the administration of a water  rights system.&nbsp; To help individuals and  businesses meet the costs of water pollution control and cleanup, the State  Water Board also provides financial assistance in the form of various State and  federal loan and grant programs.&nbsp; In  addition, the State Water Board reviews petitions that contest Regional Water  Board actions.</p> 
  <p>While some  of these Water Board activities are more well-known than others, all are  essential to providing California individuals, families, farmers, cities,  industries, and the environment with water needed to keep our State healthy and  productive.</p>
<p><strong class="greenSubtitle">Regional Water Boards</strong><br />
    While the  State Water Board develops statewide policy and regulations for water quality  control, the nine Regional Water Boards provide local implementation of  statewide policy and regulations, set water quality standards and  implementation provisions in plans and policies, issue waste discharge permits,  determine compliance with permit requirements, and take enforcement actions  against violators.</p>
  <p>The  Regional Water Boards&rsquo; boundaries are based on watersheds so that their water  quality decisions and actions appropriately recognize local differences in  climate, topography, geology, and hydrology.</p>
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                    <strong> Regional Water Quality Control Boards </strong>
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                  <p align="left"><a href="../../../northcoast/">Region 1</a> - North Coast Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg1.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
                    <a href="../../../sanfranciscobay/">Region 2</a> - San Francisco Bay Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg2.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
                    <a href="../../../centralcoast/">Region 3</a> - Central Coast Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg3.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
                    <a href="../../../losangeles/">Region 4</a> - Los Angeles Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg4.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
                    <a href="../../../centralvalley/">Region 5</a> - Central Valley Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg5.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
                    <a href="../../../lahontan/">Region 6</a> - Lahontan Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg6.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
                    <a href="../../../coloradoriver/">Region 7</a> - Colorado River Basin Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg7.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
                    <a href="../../../santaana/">Region 8</a> - Santa Ana Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg8.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
                    <a href="../../../sandiego/">Region 9</a> - San Diego Region (<a href="../../../publications_forms/publications/factsheets/docs/reg9.pdf">fact sheet</a>)<br />
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  <h2>Work of the State and Regional Water Boards </h2>

  <p>Collectively, the Water Boards are responsible for  protecting and restoring water quality in all surface waters (streams, rivers,  lakes, and wetlands) and ground waters (aquifers, drinking water wells) of the  State.&nbsp; Water Board scientists,  engineers, analysts, and support personnel collaborate with local, State, and federal  agencies, communities, and organizations to ensure that water issues are  addressed.</p>
  <p>The Water  Boards perform work that addresses specific questions regarding the protection  of the State&rsquo;s waters.</p>
  <p><strong><em>The State and Regional Water Boards&hellip;</em></strong><br />
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      <strong><em>&hellip; Plan and Assess</em></strong></p>
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    <li><strong>Set Water Quality Standards</strong><br />
      <em>What are safe levels of pollutants  in waters?</em> </li>
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    <li><strong>Monitor and       Assess Waters</strong><br />
      <em>What is the quality of our waters?</em></li>
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    <strong><em>&hellip; Regulate</em></strong></p>
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    <li><strong>Identify and Control Threats to       the Waters<br />
    </strong><em>What are the sources of water  pollution and how do we control them?</em></li>
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    <li><strong>Assess Compliance with       Requirements to Protect Water<br />
    </strong><em>How do we assess compliance with  laws and regulations?</em> </li>
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  <p><strong><em>&hellip; Enforce</em></strong></p>
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    <li><strong>Take Enforcement Actions to       Achieve Compliance<br />
    </strong><em>How do we address violations and  clean up contaminated sites?</em></li>
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  <p><strong><em>The State Water Board alone&hellip;</em></strong></p>
  <p><strong><em>&hellip; Funds Planning and Projects</em></strong><em> (water quality improvement projects)</em><br />
    <em>How does financial  assistance protect water quality?</em></p>
  <p><strong><em>&hellip; Allocates Water</em></strong><br />
    <em>How do we allocate  water for use?</em> </p>

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