Draft California 2020 Integrated Report (303(d) List/305(b) Report)

Supporting Information

Regional Board 5 - Central Valley Region

Water Body Name: Elbow Creek (Alpine County)
Water Body ID: CAR5326001020180615049098
Water Body Type: River & Stream
 
DECISION ID
126375
Region 5     
Elbow Creek (Alpine County)
 
Pollutant: Indicator Bacteria
Final Listing Decision: Do Not List on 303(d) list (TMDL required list)
Last Listing Cycle's Final Listing Decision: New Decision
Revision Status Revised
Impairment from Pollutant or Pollution: Pollutant
 
Regional Board Conclusion: Insufficient information is available to determine beneficial use support for this waterbody-pollutant combination with the statistical power and confidence required by the Listing Policy. Beneficial use support will be reassessed in a future cycle, if more data are available.
 
Regional Board Decision Recommendation: After review of the available data and information, RWQCB staff concludes that the water body-pollutant combination should not be placed on the section 303(d) list. The readily available data and information is insufficient to determine, with the power and confidence of the Listing Policy, the applicable beneficial use support rating.
 
State Board Review of Regional Board Conclusion and Recommendation:
 
State Board Decision Recommendation:
 
 
Line of Evidence (LOE) for Decision ID 126375, Indicator Bacteria
Region 5     
Elbow Creek (Alpine County)
 
LOE ID: 194506
 
Pollutant: Escherichia coli (E. coli)
LOE Subgroup: Pollutant-Water
Matrix: Water
Fraction: None
 
Beneficial Use: Water Contact Recreation
 
Number of Samples: 3
Number of Exceedances: 0
 
Data and Information Type: PATHOGEN MONITORING
Data Used to Assess Water Quality: Water Board staff assessed data for Elbow Creek (Alpine County) to determine beneficial use support and the results are as follows: 0 of the 3 samples exceeded the Statistical Threshold Value (STV) water quality threshold for E. coli. The STV is based on a 10% exceedance rate that is calculated monthly.
Data Reference: Water data for the 2020/2022 integrated report in Region 5.
 
SWAMP Data: Non-SWAMP
 
Water Quality Objective/Criterion: The bacteria water quality objective applicable to all waters, except Lake Tahoe, where the salinity is less than 10 parts per thousand (ppth) 95 percent or more of the time is a STATISTICAL THRESHOLD VALUE (STV) of 320 cfu/100 mL not to be exceeded more than 10 percent of the time (calculated monthly).
Objective/Criterion Reference: Inland Surface Waters, Enclosed Bays, and Estuaries Plan. Part 1: Trash Provisions; Part 2: Tribal Subsistence Beneficial Uses and Mercury Provisions; Part 3: Bacteria Provisions and Variance Policy
 
Evaluation Guideline:
Guideline Reference:
 
Spatial Representation: The samples were collected at 1 monitoring site(s), station(s): ELBC_ELB
Temporal Representation: The samples were collected between the days of 2014-06-23 and 2014-08-06 .
Environmental Conditions:
QAPP Information: Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center. 2010. QAPP for Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Project in the Stanislaus National Forest., Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center. 2016. QAPP for Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Project in the Stanislaus National Forest., Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CSERC). 2017. QAPP for Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Project in the Stanislaus National Forest., Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center. 2018. QAPP for Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Project in the Stanislaus National Forest.
QAPP Information Reference(s): QAPP for Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Project in the Stanislaus National Forest
QAPP Information Reference(s): QAPP for Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Project in the Stanislaus National Forest
QAPP Information Reference(s): QAPP for Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Project in the Stanislaus National Forest
QAPP Information Reference(s): QAPP for Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Project in the Stanislaus National Forest