Press Releases & Announcements
Next Regional Board Meeting
- 22 August 2025 Board Meeting
**Location Change
In-Person with Remote Meeting Option - Executive Officer's Report
- Ex Parte Communications
Other Announcements
- Previous Years' Announcements
- California Storm Water Toolbox
Storm water pollution reduction tools for residents, community and civic groups, educators, municipalities and public agencies. - Current Public Notices
- Enforcement Announcements
2024 … a continuation of the announcements from the Central Valley Regional Water Boards home page.
- Central Valley Water Board adopts Resolution No. R5-2024-0060, 2024 Triennial Review and Workplan for the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers Basins and the Tulare Lake Basin (12/30/24)
- City of Modesto to pay $325,000 for sewage spills caused by inadequate infrastructure maintenance (10/31/24)
- Notice of Opportunity to Comment and Staff Workshop for the 2024 Joint Triennial Review of the Water Quality Control Plans for the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Basins, and the Tulare Lake Basin (Español) (10/23/24) - PERIOD CLOSED
- Lower American River Bacteria Study - Get the latest monitoring results before heading out to the river and learn more about bacteria sources. (05/15/24)
- Central Valley Water Board expands innovative safe drinking water program to eight more geographic zones (01/22/24)
- Notice of Public Solicitation (Español) for the 2024 Joint Triennial Review of the Water Quality Control Plans for the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River Basins and the Tulare Lake Basin (01/05/24) - PERIOD CLOSED
Previous Years' Announcements
2023
- How to keep your family and pets safe as harmful algal bloom threat increases during summer months (06/23/23)
- Gallo Winery to pay penalty for discharge that threatened water quality in Merced River (02/06/2023)
2022
2021
- Settlement reached with sewer district that had hundreds of raw sewage spills (12/29/2021)
- DNA testing for E. coli in American River traces most causes to wildlife, not humans (11/16/2021)
- Food Safety Project White Paper: No elevated risk from food grown with oil field produced water (09/10/2021)
- Pistachio processing facility in Tulare County will pay $221,440 fine for odor violations
Numerous residents complained of stench from wastewater pond (06/09/2021) - $2.5 million settlement reached for Mule Creek State Prison violations of Clean Water Act (03/29/2021)
- City of Colfax agrees to settlement for Bunch Creek sewage spill (03/26/2021)
- 100,000 Central Valley residents impacted by contaminated drinking water will soon see interim solutions (03/15/2021)
Short-term and permanent fixes for drinking water contaminated with nitrates - Sumiden Wire Co. agrees to settlement in industrial wastewater discharge case (03/11/2021)
- Expert Panel: Food Grown with Produced Water Safe for Human Consumption (02/17/2021)
- Shasta County property owner fined $25,000 for water quality violations at cannabis grow site (01/29/2021)
- Drinking water quality impacts from North Complex fires found to be minimal (01/28/2021)
2020
- Agenda Package for CV-SALTS Revisions to the Basin Plan Amendments; Agenda Item No. 8; Central Valley Board Hearing 10 December 2020 (11/25/20)
- Shasta County agrees to settlement for sewage spill and violations at Cottonwood Wastewater Treatment Plant (11/20/20)
- Butte County Property Owner Fined $193,088 for Water Quality Violations at Cannabis Grow Site (11/09/20)
- CV-SALTS Aviso de Oportunidad Para Comentar y de Audiencia Pública (Spanish CV-SALTS
Public Hearing Notice) Respecto a Enmiendas a Planes de Control de Calidad del Agua para Incorporar Modificaciones al Programa de Control de Nitrato y Sal (10/23/20) - Water Quality Coordinating Committee (WQCC) Meeting, October 27-28, 2020 (10/16/20)
- City of Mount Shasta agrees to settlement for sewage spills and violations at wastewater treatment plant - Penalties will go towards preventing future spills and effluent violations (10/15/20)
- CV-SALTS Public Comment Period and Public Hearing - For proposed Basin Plan Amendments revising the recently adopted Salt and Nitrate Control Program (9/4/20)
- ALERT to Fresno and Central Valley media - Individuals going door-to-door fraudulently impersonating State Water Board’s drinking water specialists in the Fresno area (8/26/20)
- Recreational advisory issued at Lake Isabella due to harmful algal bloom - Visitors should avoid water contact at many locations on lake (8/19/20)
- Foul odors from Tulare County pistachio processing plant trigger cease and desist order (8/14/20)
- City of Galt agrees to six-figure settlement in sewage spill case (8/11/20)
- Lewis Land Developers to Settle Stormwater Violations at Placer County Construction Project (6/15/20)
- Two Central Valley Dairy Operators Cited for Violating Waste Management Practices (6/10/20)
- Diamond B Dairy Violations Posed Threat to Groundwater Quality (5/21/20)
- New tools available to help Bovine Operations complete their annual reports due 1 July 2020 (5/5/20)
- Implementation of Executive Order N-42-20: Guidelines and Best Practices for Water and Wastewater Systems (4/30/20)
- Service of Process During the COVID-19 Emergency (4/20/20)
- Dairyman Agrees to $108,608 Settlement for Dumping Dairy Wastewater on Cropland (1/29/20)
- Roman Catholic Bishop of Sacramento to Settle in Stormwater Violations at Placer County Construction Project (1/6/20)
