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Changes to the 1995 Water Quality Control Plan Program of Implementation

Changes to the 1995 Water Quality Control Plan Program of Implementation. Presented by: Steve Ford Department of Water Resources. 1995 Water Quality Control Plan Program of Implementation. Implementation Measures within SWRCB Authority

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Changes to the 1995 Water Quality Control Plan Program of Implementation

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  1. Changes to the 1995 Water Quality Control PlanProgram of Implementation Presented by: Steve Ford Department of Water Resources

  2. 1995 Water Quality Control PlanProgram of Implementation • Implementation Measures within SWRCB Authority • Implementation Measures Requiring SWRCB and Multi-Agency Cooperation • Recommendations to Improve Habitat Conditions • Monitoring and Special Studies Program

  3. Implementation Measures within SWRCB Water Rights Authority 1995 Program of Implementation • Decision 1641 has implemented many of the water quality objectives. Many are the responsibility of DWR and Reclamation • Excluded the south Delta salinity objective for agriculture because requires other agency cooperation Proposed Change • Exclude Pumping Plant #1 chloride objectives because requires other agency cooperation

  4. Implementation Measures within SWRCB Water Quality Authority 1995 Program of Implementation • Use Clean Water Act section 401 water quality certification authority during FERC licensing activities • DWR to submit 401 certification application in 2006 • Operations to meet DWR Delta water rights requirements assumed in project description Proposed Change • No changes proposed

  5. Implementation Measures Requiring SWRCB and Multi-Agency Cooperation 1995 Program of Implementation • Dissolved Oxygen • Salmon Narrative • Suisun Marsh • Southern Delta Agricultural Salinity Proposed Additions • Pumping Plant #1 Municipal Chlorides • San Joaquin River Fish Flow (VAMP)

  6. Implementation Measures Requiring SWRCB and Multi-Agency Cooperation Dissolved Oxygen • Control of local discharges - RWQCB • Demonstration aeration system - DWR & CBDA • Permanent barrier at the head of Old River – DWR & CBDA Salmon Narrative • Reflect recent activities by other agencies Suisun Marsh • Multi-agency effort to develop a management and restoration plan for the Suisun Marsh and nearby brackish tidal wetlands by June, 2006

  7. Implementation Measures Requiring SWRCB and Multi-Agency Cooperation Southern Delta Agricultural Salinity • Update description of San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program activities • Recognize importance of the permanent operable barriers to control salinity in the south Delta • Modify to be consistent with D-1641 • Change the effective date of the 0.7 EC salinity objective at Brandt Bridge, Old River near Middle River, and Old River at Tracy Road Bridge • Consider SWRCB evaluation of alternative salinity objectives for agricultural needs

  8. Implementation Measures Requiring SWRCB and Multi-Agency Cooperation Rock Slough Municipal Chlorides • Recognize DWR & Reclamation unable to meet objectives under some CCWD operations • Establish an alternative compliance location and objective in Old River at Holland Tract to use during these CCWD operations • Identify the need to reduce Veale Tract drainage discharges and line Contra Costa Canal to implement these objectives

  9. Implementation Measures Requiring SWRCB and Multi-Agency Cooperation San Joaquin River Fish Flow (VAMP) • Recognize the phased implementation of the Vernalis pulse flow objective • Phase I consists of the current VAMP experimental flow assessment • Phase II will occur after analysis of VAMP results & subsequent water right hearing

  10. Recommendations to Improve Habitat Conditions • Identifies 14 types of measures to improve habitat conditions to improve fish and wildlife benefits • DWR’s written presentation summarizes what DWR has done in each of these

  11. Monitoring and Special Studies Program • Adopt previously proposed amendments to Table 4 and Figure 2 • Improve the scientific basis for the monitoring • Improve monitoring efficiency by consolidating neighboring stations • Improve safety • Add a compliance monitoring station in Old River at Holland Tract to Table 4 and Figure 2 • Footnote to make it effective subject to approval through a water rights hearing

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