Priority Water Quality Improvement Projects
Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Priority Water Quality Improvement Projects:
September 2001
Priority Water Quality Improvement Projects:
September 2001
Project Identification Number |
Project Descriptions * |
| 1 | Projects which support capacity to establish and implement locally directed watershed management programs: including watershed assessments, development of watershed management plans, and implementation of existing watershed management plans. |
| 2 | Implementation of BMPs to mitigate/reduce nonpoint source pollution from irrigated and non-irrigated agriculture (including pesticides, salts, sediment, nutrients, pathogens, and other pollutants), and monitoring programs which demonstrate effectiveness of these practices. |
| 3 | Projects which address the transport of pesticides and other pollutants from orchard operations. |
| 4 | Implementation of BMPs to reduce or control discharge of pesticides, nutrients, and sediment from wine grape vineyard operations. |
| 5 | Projects which provide technical assistance and/or implement demonstration projects to address nutrients, BOD, and other pollutants from dairy wastes. |
| 6 | Implementation of control systems by local water/drainage districts to manage the water quality of discharges into natural water bodies. |
| 7 | Projects which assess nutrient source loads and implement nutrient reduction plans in areas of identified beneficial use impacts. |
| 8 | Projects which lead towards implementation of the CA Rangeland Water Quality Management Plan, SWRCB, 1995 (i.e. development and implementation of individual Ranch Plans, projects which improve livestock management for purposes of water quality and aquatic habitat enhancement) |
| 9 | Implementation of citizen monitoring, community education, and/or K-12 watershed education programs. |
| 10 | Projects which address accelerated erosion and sediment discharge/deposition in areas of identified beneficial use impacts. |
| 11 | Projects which identify sources and reduce loadings of pollutants (i.e. pesticides, oil/grease, nutrients, pathogens, etc.) from urban storm water discharges. |
| 12 | Studies and implementation projects which address discharges of mercury and other heavy metals from a variety of sources including abandoned and inactive mines. |
| 13 | Implementation of BMPs to address low dissolved oxygen, salt, and boron conditions in the lower San Joaquin River. |
| 14 | Projects which document existing baseline water quality/watershed condition and establish programs to evaluate long-term water quality/watershed trends. |
| 15 | Projects which improve or restore natural functioning condition of stream channels (i.e. restore floodplain access, reduce accelerated erosion, improve aquatic and riparian habitat, restore natural hydrologic regimes). |
| 16 | Projects which address invasive, exotic vegetative species resulting in enhancement of water quality, quantity and/or habitat conditions. |
| 17 | Protection, restoration, and enhancement of sensitive watershed lands through easement/fee title acquisitions and other means to avoid or reduce water quality impacts from encroaching land uses. |
| 18 | Projects which improve upland conditions (i.e. fuels management, wildlife habitat enhancement, range improvement, etc.) and result in improved water quality and aquatic habitat conditions. |
| 19 | Projects which result in augmentation of in-stream flows for purposes of enhancing water quality, fisheries, aquatic habitat and other beneficial water uses. |
| 20 | Nitrate, pesticide and salinity reduction in groundwater. |
| 21 | Projects which assess bacteria contamination in potential and identified areas of beneficial use. |
* For examples of projects which would address the above priorities, both Regionwide and specific to the Sacramento, San Joaquin, Delta, and Tulare Basins, click on these links to download the Regionwide Example Projects 32K( PDF Format ) and the Basin Specific Example Projects 24K( PDF Format ) tables in PDF format. All regionwide and basin specific project activities include a reference to a general project identification number.