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Salt and Nutrient Management Planning
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Background
Salt and nutrient management planning is included in the Recycled Water Policy to help address the potential for recycled water use to impact groundwater quality and to promote basin-wide management of salts and nutrients in groundwater.
The Recycled Water Policy (2009, amended 2013) recognized that local water and wastewater entities, together with stakeholders, would fund locally driven efforts to develop Salt and Nutrient Management Plans (SNMPs), with the intent that every basin/subbasin in California have an SNMP. The State Water Board later clarified that regional water boards should focus salt and nutrient management planning efforts on those basins identified as “priority basins” by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) as part of their 2003 study of monitoring and assessment of California groundwater (https://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri034166/).Related Links and Resources
Use the following map tool to view the status of SNMP development in each groundwater basin in California. “Accepted SNMPs” are SNMPs that have been accepted by the Regional Board, typically through a Board resolution or letter from the Executive Officer. “Completed SNMPs” refer to SNMPs that have been submitted to the Regional Boards as final reports, but have not been formally accepted by that Board through a resolution or letter from the Executive Officer. Other information is available on the webtool, including basin identification, links to accepted SNMPs, location of the USGS-identified priority basins, and other spatial layers for reference.
Salt and Nutrient Management Planning Webtool - click to access Webtool
Regional Water Quality Control Board Contacts
| Regional Water Quality Control Board | Name | |
| North Coast | Jeremiah Puget | Jeremiah.Puget@waterboards.ca.gov |
| San Francisco Bay | Alec Naugle | Alec.Naugle@waterboards.ca.gov |
| Central Coast | Harvey Packard Matt Keeling |
Harvey.Packard@waterboards.ca.gov Matt.Keeling@waterboards.ca.gov |
| Los Angeles | Ginachi Amah | Ginachi.Amah@waterboards.ca.gov |
| Central Valley | Glen Meeks Jeanne Chilcott Walter Plachta |
Glen.Meeks@waterboards.ca.gov Jeanne.Chilcott@waterboards.ca.gov Walter.Plachta@waterboards.ca.gov |
| Lahontan | Jan Zimmerman Lisa Dernbach |
Jan.Zimmerman@waterboards.ca.gov Lisa.Dernbach@waterboards.ca.gov |
| Colorado River Basin | Cathy Sanford | Cathy.Sanford@waterboards.ca.gov |
| Santa Ana | Cindy Li | Cindy.Li@waterboards.ca.gov |
| San Diego | John Odermatt | John.Odermatt@waterboards.ca.gov |
Contact Us
- For questions or comments, please contact
Rebecca Greenwood
Rebecca.Greenwood@waterboards.ca.gov
916-341-5858