Central Valley Salinity - Programs, Policies, Reports and Presentations
There have been a number of programs and policies developed to address small and large scale salinity issues in California’s Central Valley. Links to a few of these programs and policies are below.
Water Board Programs, Policies, and Reports
- List of Recent Regional Board Orders Containing Salinity Requirements, 36 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
- California's Anti-degradation Policy
- Sources of Drinking Water Policy
- Water Quality Control Plans (Basin Plans)
- Sacramento River and San Joaquin River Basin Plan, 714 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Tulare Lake Basin Plan, 562 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Bay-Delta Plan, 3.28 MB*, MS Word
- Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
- Irrigated Lands Program
- State Water Board Water Rights Decision 1641
- Salinity Overview Report, 1.47 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
Presented at the 2 May 2006 State Water Board meeting - 2007 Salinity Guidance memo, 128 KB, PDF (PDF info)
Real Time Salinity Management on the San Joaquin River
- Weekly Water Quality Report
- Environmental decision support system development for seasonal wetland salt management, 942 KB, PDF (PDF info)
Other Agency Programs, Policies, and Reports
- List of Local Salt Management Efforts, 24 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Department of Water Resources San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Drainage Programs
- Integrated On-Farm Drainage Management (IFDM)
- California Health & Safety Code 25209, 35 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation South-Central California Area Office
- U.S. Geological Survey
- UC Davis
- Draft Report "The Economic Impacts of Central Valley Salinity", 1.3 MB*, PDF (PDF info) (Posted 10/29/2008)
- Draft Report Appendices, 411 KB, PDF (PDF info) (Posted 10/29/2008)
- California Water Institute: Metadata Guide
- Executive Summary & Table of Contents, 52 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Chapter 1, 281 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Chapter 2, 686 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Chapter 3, 3.7 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
- Chapter 4, 886 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Chapter 5, 665 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Chapter 6, 852 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Chapter 7, 696 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Gaps and Limitations, 26 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- U.C. Center for Water Resources
- Salinity Management Guide
- California Bay-Delta Authority (formerly CALFED)
- Water Quality for Agriculture (Ayers and Westcot)
- Kings River Conservation District
- UC Davis
- Lund: Approaches to Planning Water Resources, 80 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Australia’s Salinity Investment Framework III (examples and analyses of funding strategies)
- UNL.edu salinity listserv
Presentations
April 2008 Salt Workshops Presentations- April 10 & 17 Salinity Workshops (Tulare and Sacramento)
- Announcement, 1.6 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
- Presentations:
- Pamela Creedon, 88 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Les Grober, 520 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Daniel Cozad, 467 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Workshop
- Elanie Archibald, 1.9 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
- Pamela Creedon, 111 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Richard Howitt, 625 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Sarge Green (Tulare), 2.15 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
- Rudy Schnagl (Sacramento), 1.9 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
- Audience Survey (Tulare), 855 KB, PDF (PDF info)
- Audience Survey (Sacramento), 1.9 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
- Rosa Lau-Staggs (Tulare), 2.2 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
- Tom Reyes (Sacramento), 2.8 MB*, PDF (PDF info)
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