Watershed Management Initiative
The Watershed Management Initiative (WMI) was most recently updated in November 2006.
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(updated) was last revised in 2001.
Below are links to the Watershed Management Initiative (WMI) Chapters.
The full document is available to download below:
WMI - Full document with all tables and appendices (.pdf document in a zip file ~ 8 MB)
The document is also broken down by section below:
| Cover Sheet & Executive Summary |
| Table of Contents (Including List of Tables, Figures and Appendices) |
| Section 1.0 - INTRODUCTION |
| 1.1 The Watershed Management Initiative |
| 1.2 The Santa Ana Region |
| 1.3 Overview of Regional Board Activities |
| 1.4 Watershed Management Areas (WMAs) |
| Section 2.0 - KEY REGIONAL ISSUES |
| 2.1 Santa Ana River Nitrogen/Total Dissolved Solids Management |
| 2.2 Dairies |
| 2.3 Coastal Beaches |
| 2.4 Regional Funding Priorities
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| Section 3 - WATERSHED ACTIVITIES |
| 3.1 Chino Basin Watershed Management Area |
| 3.2 Newport Basin Watershed Management Area |
| 3.3 Lake Elsinore/San Jacinto River Watershed Management Area |
| 3.4 Anaheim B./Huntington Harb./Bolsa Chica Watershed Management Area |
| 3.5 Big Bear Area Watershed Management Area |
| 3.6 Upper Santa Ana River Watershed Management Area |
| 3.7 Middle Santa Ana River Watershed Management Area |
| 3.8 Lower Santa Ana Watershed Management Area |
| 3.9 Newport Coast Watershed Management Area |
| 3.10 Coyote/Carbon Creek Watershed Management Area |
| Section 4 - REGIONWIDE ACTIVITIES |
| 4.1 Total Maximum Daily Loads |
| 4.2 Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program |
| 4.3 Watershed Management |
| 4.4 Monitoring and Assessment |
4.5 Core Regulatory (NPDES, Waste Discharge Requirements [WDRs] & Land Disposal WDRs |
| 4.6 Water Quality Standards/Basin Planning |
| 4.7 Wetlands |
| 4.8 Groundwater Resource Protection/Cleanup |
| Section 5 - RESOURCE ALLOCATION |
LIST OF TABLES
| Table 1-1 | Watershed Management Areas and Priority Activities |
| Table 2 | Regional WMI Water Quality Priorities for Grant Projects |
| Table 2-1 | Santa Ana Region WMI Targeted Projects, Needs, or Activities |
| Table 2-2 | General Categories of Watershed Planning, Mapping, Assessment, and Monitoring Project Needs |
| Table 4-1 | Summary of NPS Pollutants by Watershed and Management Measure Category |
| Table 4-2 | Monitoring and Assessment Resource Needs |
| Table 4-3 | Monitoring and Assessment: Five Year Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program (SWAMP) Related Monitoring Priorities |
| Table 4-4 | Monitoring and Assessment: Water Bodies for Data Review – No Sampling Activities Planned |
| Table 4-5 | Monitoring and Assessment: Water Bodies Needing More Information to Assess Water Quality |
| Table 5-1 | Resource Allocation |
LIST OF FIGURES
| Figure 1-1 Santa Ana Region Watershed Management Areas |
| Figure 3-1 Chino Basin WMA |
| Figure 3-2 Newport Bay WMA |
| Figure 3-3 Lake Elsinore/San Jacinto River WMA |
| Figure 3-4 Anaheim Bay/Huntington Harbour/Bolsa Chica WMA |
| Figure 3-5 Big Bear Area WMA |
| Figure 3-6 Upper Santa Ana River WMA |
| Figure 3-7 Middle Santa Ana River WMA |
| Figure 3-8 Lower Santa Ana River WMA |
| Figure 3-9 Newport Coast WMA |
| Figure 3-10 Coyote Creek and Carbon Creek WMA |
| Figure 4-1 Critical Coastal Areas (CCA), Orange County |
APPENDICES
| Appendix A | Core Regulatory Program Tables |
| Table 1 | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permit Re-Issuance Schedule |
| Table 2 | NPDES Pretreatment Audits and Inspections |
| Table 3 | NPDES Permit Compliance Inspection Schedule |
| Table 4 | Waste Discharge Requirements (WDR) Re-Issuance Schedule |
| Table 5 | Land Disposal WDR Re-Issuance Schedule |
| Table 6 | WDR Compliance Inspection Schedule |
| Table 7 | Land Disposal WDR Compliance Inspection Schedule |
| Appendix B | Water Quality Assessment Report and 303(d) Update Schedule |
| Appendix C | Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program Tables |
| Table 1 | Summary Schedule for TMDL Development |
| Table 2 | Five-Year Schedule of TMDL Activities |
| Appendix D | Standards/Basin Planning Activities |
| Appendix E | Non-Point Source (NPS) Program Tables |
| Table 1 | Regional NPS Problems by Management Measure Category |
| Table 2a | NPS Program Short Term Objectives |
| Table 2b | Education, Outreach, and Technical Assistance |
| Table 3 | Waivers of Waste Discharge |
| Table 4 | Key Partners |
| Table 5 | Proposed FY 2002/03 NPS Resource Allocation |
| Table 6 | NPS Resource Needs: FY 2002/03 to FY 2004/05 |
For more information, please contact Mark Adelson at (951) 782-3234.
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