Press Releases & Announcements

Previous Years' Announcements

2021

• Settlement reached with sewer district that had hundres 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 (06/09/21)
• $2.5 million settlement reached for Mule Creek State Prison violations of Clean Water Act (03/29/21)
• City of Colfax agrees to settlement for Bunch Creek sewage spill (3/26/21)
• 100,000 Central Valley residents impacted by contaminated drinking water will soon see interim solutions (3/15/21)
  Short-term and permanent fixes for drinking water contaminated with nitrates
• Sumiden Wire Co. agrees to settlement in industrial wastewater discharge case (3/11/2021)
• Expert Panel: Food Grown with Produced Water Safe for Human Consumption (2/17/21)
• Shasta County property owner fined $25,000 for water quality violations at cannabis grow site (1/29/21)
• Drinking water quality impacts from North Complex fires found to be minimal (1/28/21)

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)