TMDL Projects
San Joaquin River Dissolved Oxygen TMDL
Implementation Activities

To request a copy of documents listed on this page, please contact Jennifer LaBay at Jennifer.LaBay@waterboards.ca.gov or (916) 464-4650.

Port of Stockton Dock 20 Aeration Facility

The Port of Stockton owns the aeration device that was constructed at Dock 20 on the Port's West End Complex. The Dock 20 Aeration Facility is funded under a voluntary aeration agreement among participating San Joaquin River DO TMDL stakeholders. The facility injects dissolved oxygen into the San Joaquin River when dissolved oxygen concentrations are less than the Central Valley Water Board's Basin Plan dissolved oxygen water quality objectives. Below are the following documents - the current aeration agreement and the annual operations, maintenance and cost summaries for the Dock 20 facility.

  • 2017 Amended Agreement for Funding & Operation of Dissolved Oxygen Aeration Facility
  • 2016 Amended Agreement for Funding & Operation of Dissolved Oxygen Aeration Facility
  • 2012 Agreement for Funding & Operation of Dissolved Oxygen Aeration Facility
  • 2017 Port of Stockton Aerator Operations, Maintenance, and Cost Summary
  • 2016 Port of Stockton Aerator Operations, Maintenance, and Cost Summary
  • 2015 Port of Stockton Aerator Operations, Maintenance, and Cost Summary
  • 2014 Port of Stockton Aerator Operations, Maintenance, and Cost Summary
  • 2013 Port of Stockton Aerator Operations, Maintenance, and Cost Summary
  • 2012 Port of Stockton Aerator Operations, Maintenance, and Cost Summary
  • 2012 Port of Stockton Aerator Operations, Maintenance, and Cost Summary Addendum

The Aeration Facility was constructed by the Department of Water Resources in 2006-2007 and was demonstrated during a multi-year study of the effectiveness of elevating dissolved oxygen concentrations in the channel through the use of an in-channel aerator. More information on DWR's Stockton Deep Water Ship Channel Demonstration Dissolved Oxygen Project can be found on their website below.

Continuous dissolved oxygen readings in the DWSC can be obtained from the California Data Exchange Center (CDEC).

Port of Stockton - Dredging and Mitigation Aeration Requirements

The Port of Stockton performs maintenance dredging of the berths at the Port, and is required to provide aeration as a mitigation measure.

  • Port of Stockton's WDR

Source Control – Point and Nonpoint Sources

The primary point source of oxygen demanding substances contributing to the DO impairment is from the City of Stockton Regional Wastewater Control Facility. Other municipal wastewater treatment plants in the SJR watershed may also have the potential to contribute oxygen demanding substances or their precursors. These may include, but are not limited to, the City of Manteca, City of Tracy, City of Modesto and the City of Turlock.

  • City of Stockton Regional Wastewater Control Facility NPDES Permit

For the purpose of the Control Program, nonpoint source discharges are discharges from irrigated lands – lands where water is applied for producing crops, and includes, but is not limited to, land planted to row, field and tree crops, as well as commercial nurseries, nursery stock production, managed wetlands and rice production.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for any channel deepening or maintenance dredging in the Stockton Deep Water Ship Channel. The TMDL's Control Program required the Army Corps to submit a technical report identifying and quantifying the various mechanisms by which oxygen demanding substances are converted to oxygen demand and the impact that the Stockton DWSC has on re-aeration and other mechanisms that affect DO concentration in the water column.

  • October 1988 Document:
    Effects of the Stockton Ship Channel Deepening on Dissolved Oxygen Near the Port of Stockton, California (Phase II)
  • November 1988 Document:
    Dissolved Oxygen Study, Stockton Deep Water Ship Channel
  • May 1990 Document:
    Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) San Francisco Bay to Stockton Ship Channel: Dissolved Oxygen Mitigation Implementation
  • November 1988 Bibliography Document:
    Dissolved Oxygen Bibliography Referred to in the USACE Office Report Entitled "Dissolved Oxygen Study" dated November 1988
  • March 1972 Document:
    City of Stockton Environmental Impact Statement Main Water Quality Control Plant
    • City of Stockton Water Quality Control Plant Figure 1
  • May 1985 Document:
    Effects of the Stockton Ship Channel Deepening on the Hydraulics and Water Quality Near the Port of Stockton, California
  • March 1986 Document:
    Users Guide for the Stockton Ship Channel Project Link-Node Hydrodynamics and Water Quality Models
    • LinkNode Figure VI-1
    • LinkNode Figure III-1
  • 1972 Document:
    Old River Closure Summary Report – 1972
  • 1974 Document:
    Old River Closure Summary Report – 1974
  • 1981 Document:
    Old River Closure Summary Report – 1981
  • February 1985 Document:
    Summary of Water Quality Monitoring During 1984 Old River Closure