| City of Hollister Will Pay $181,110 for Illegal Discharge Caused by Wastewater Collection System Failure |
12/19/2019 |
Region 3 / Water Quality |
| Launch of Kettleman City’s New Water Treatment Facility Makes Arsenic Struggle a Thing of the Past |
12/18/2019 |
Drinking Water |
| Central Coast Water Board Appoints Matt Keeling to Executive Officer |
12/18/2019 |
Region 3 |
| New Advisory Group Selected to Help Focus Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Funding Efforts |
12/11/2019 |
Drinking Water |
| State Water Board Adopts 2019 Ocean Plan Review that Ranks Important Water Quality Issues |
12/03/2019 |
Water Quality |
| State Water Board Approves Last of 13 Grants Totaling $367 Million for Groundwater Protection |
11/19/2019 |
Water Quality |
| State Water Board Streamlines Permitting Process for Diversions of Floodwater and Other High Flows to Support Groundwater Sustainability |
11/14/2019 |
Water Rights |
| State Water Board Approves Central Valley Water Board Plan to Reduce Nitrate Contamination in Groundwater and Provide Replacement Drinking Water |
10/16/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Harmful Algal Bloom Update: Use Caution at Big Bear Lake |
10/14/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Statewide Well Test Results for Contaminants PFOA and PFOS Now Available Through Web-based Maps |
10/14/2019 |
Drinking Water |
| Study Indicates Oilfield Activities Have Increased Groundwater Salinity in Western Kern County |
09/23/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Rocklin Developer Agrees to $153,000 Settlement in Environmental Threats to Nearby Ravine |
09/19/2019 |
Region 5 / Enforcement |
| State Water Board Selects Alan Lilly as First Administrative Hearings Officer for Specified Water Rights Proceedings |
09/18/2019 |
State Water Board |
| State Water Board Adopts Order Protecting Endangered Steelhead and Senior Water Right Holders Impacted by the Cachuma Reservoir Project |
09/17/2019 |
Water Rights |
| State Water Board Appointee Laurel Firestone Confirmed by State Senate |
09/05/2019 |
State Water Board |
| State Water Board Appointee Sean Maguire Confirmed by State Senate |
09/05/2019 |
State Water Board |
| Harmful Algal Blooms Identified at Big Bear Lake
Visitors Advised to Avoid Water Contact and Keep Dogs From Swimming |
08/30/2019 |
Region 8 / Water Quality |
| Water Boards Ramp Up Testing For Harmful Algal Blooms, Waterways Targeted Statewide Ahead of Busy Labor Day Weekend |
08/29/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Hospitality Company Fined $11,990 for Violating Construction Permit and Unlawfully Discharging to Carbonera Creek |
08/29/2019 |
Region 3 / Enforcement |
| State Water Board Updates Guidelines for Testing and Reporting PFOA and PFOS As It Assesses Scope of Problem |
08/23/2019 |
Drinking Water |
State Water Board Authorizes Nearly Quarter Billion Dollars to Provide Safe and Affordable Drinking Water
[Audio transcript of Aug. 19, 2019, Media Briefing on Safe Drinking Water Program] |
08/20/2019 |
Drinking Water |
| Free Well Testing Program Expands to San Benito County |
08/14/2019 |
Region 3 / Water Quality |
| State Water Board Revokes Water Right License for Failure to Report Annual Diversions |
08/07/2019 |
Water Rights |
| $3.7 Million Settlement Reached Following Multi-agency Probe of Vineyard Development that Threatened Mendocino County Watersheds |
08/02/2019 |
Water Rights/Water Quality |
| Harmful Algal Bloom Triggers Public Health Alerts for Copco and Iron Gate Reservoirs |
07/31/2019 |
Region 1 / Water Quality |
| Caution Urged After Harmful Algal Bloom Detected in Stanislaus River |
07/26/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Governor Newsom Signs Bill
Creating Safe Drinking Water Fund |
07/24/2019 |
Drinking Water |
| Harmful Algal Bloom Confirmed in Black Butte Lake Public Urged to Exercise Caution |
06/13/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Glenn County Gravel Mining Operation Receives $675,000 Penalty For Water Quality Violations |
06/13/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality |
| Ten Public Agencies Are Ordered to Investigate their Systems for Discharges of Human Waste into the Lower San Diego River |
06/12/2019 |
Region 9 / Water Quality |
| $325,000 Settlement Reached In Illegal Land Development For Cannabis Cultivators |
06/12/2019 |
Region 1 / Water Quality |
| Cease and Desist Order Issued for Oil Field Wastewater Disposal Facility in Kern County to Ensure Greater Groundwater Protections |
06/07/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality |
| $30 Million State Water Board Funding to Help Palo Alto
with Climate-Friendly Sewage Plant Upgrades |
06/05/2019 |
Region 2 / Water Quality |
| Start of Outdoor Water Recreation Season Means Being Aware of E. coli in Rivers and Lakes |
05/23/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality |
| Make It a Habit and Be Mindful Of HABs – Harmful Algal Blooms |
05/23/2019 |
Water Quality |
| State Water Board Grant and Loan Funds Arvin Project to Resolve Arsenic Contamination in Drinking Water |
05/16/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality |
| Carlsbad Desalination Plant Updated Permit Approved by San Diego Water Board |
05/08/2019 |
Region 9 / Water Quality |
| Water Board Updates Nutrient Regulations to Protect San Francisco Bay Watershed |
05/08/2019 |
Region 2 / Water Quality |
| Concentrations of Some Pollutants Increasing in Streams Following Camp Fire |
04/24/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality |
| Los Angeles Regional Water Board Names
Renee Purdy As Executive Officer |
04/18/2019 |
Region 4 |
| Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Consultant
GSA Engineering Settles with State over Fraud Allegations |
04/11/2019 |
Water Quality Enforcement |
| California Water Board Adopts Statewide
Wetland Definition and Procedures |
04/02/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Azad Amiri and Sarbjit S. Kang Conditionally Banned from Owning or Operating Underground Storage Tank Facilities in California |
03/15/2019 |
Region 6 / Enforcement |
| Lahontan Water Board Accepts Lake Tahoe Nearshore Plan |
03/14/2019 |
Region 6 / Water Quality |
| Lahontan Water Board Receives $4.6 Million Grant to Investigate Perchloroethylene (PCE) Contamination in South Lake Tahoe’s Groundwater |
03/13/2019 |
Region 6 |
| $6 Million Settlement Reached With Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority for Underground Storage Tank Violations |
03/11/2019 |
Region 4 / Enforcement |
| Washoe Fuels of Quincy Fined After Long-term Neglect Harms Town’s Water Supply |
03/07/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality |
| State Water Board and Five Partner Agencies to Host Infrastructure Funding Fairs |
03/07/2019 |
Water Quality Infrastructure Funding |
| Shasta County Property Owners Fined $150,000 for Water Quality Violations at Cannabis Grow Site |
02/21/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality Enforcement |
| Former Shasta County Property Owner Fined $83,000 for Water Quality Violations at Cannabis Grow Site |
02/21/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality Enforcement |
| Elevated Concentrations of Some Pollutants Persist in Streams Following Camp Fire |
02/15/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality |
| State Water Board Updates Cannabis Cultivation Policy to Protect Waterways as Industry Undergoes Rapid Expansion |
02/05/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Multiple Offender Hayden Environmental Inc. Barred from Work on Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Program |
01/31/2019 |
Region 3 / Water Quality Enforcement |
| Central Valley Agricultural Water Coalitions Agree To Provide Safe Drinking Water To Those Dependent on Contaminated Wells |
01/29/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality Enforcement |
| Central Coast Water Board Reaches Settlement with Guggia Farms Over Reporting Violations |
01/24/2019 |
Region 3 / Water Quality |
| Water Boards Announce New
Statewide Paid Internship Program |
01/23/2019 |
Human Resources |
| Contamination Found in Streams Following Camp Fire |
01/18/2019 |
Region 5 / Water Quality |
| Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Consultant SOMA Environmental Settles with State over Fraud Allegations |
01/18/2019 |
Water Quality |
| City of Glendale to Pay $653,000 for Underground Storage Tank Violations |
01/14/2019 |
Water Quality |
| State Water Board’s 2019 Citizen Monitoring Calendar
Alerts Public to Key Clean Water Action Days |
01/08/2019 |
Water Quality |
| Draft Procedures to Protect Environmentally Sensitive Waterways from Dredge and Fill Activities now Available |
01/03/2019 |
Water Quality |
