Table of Contents

Ch.1-3

Ch.4

Ch.5-7

Figures/Tables

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Beneficial Uses

Chapter 3: Water Quality
Objectives

Chapter 4: Implementation
Plan

Chapter 5: Plans and Policies

Chapter 6: Surveillance and
Monitoring

Chapter 7: Water Quality
Attainment Strategies and TMDLs

List of Figures

List of Tables

TABLE OF CONTENTS (cont.)

CHAPTER 4: IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

4.1 The Watershed Management Approach

4.1.1 Water Quality Attainment Strategies Including Total Maximum Daily Loads

4.1.2 Toxic Pollutant Management in the Estuary

4.1.2.1 Numeric Water Quality Objectives: Wasteload Allocations

4.1.2.2 Toxic Pollutant Accumulation: Mass-Based Strategies

4.1.2.3 Scientific Research: Ongoing Refinement of Programs

4.1.2.4 Riverine Flows, System Flushing, and Pollutant Loading

4.1.2.4.1 Delta Outflow

4.1.2.4.2 San Luis Drain

4.1.3 Watershed Management in Countywide Programs and Individual Watersheds

4.1.3.1 The Napa River Watershed

4.1.3.2 The Santa Clara Basin Watershed Management Initiative

4.1.3.3 The Tomales Bay Watershed

4.1.3.4 The Contra Costa Watershed Forum

4.2 Discharge Prohibitions Applicable Throughout the Region

4.2.1 Summary

4.3 Point Source Control

4.4 Waste Discharge Permitting Program

4.5 Effluent Limitations

4.5.1 Technology- and Water Quality-Based Limitations

4.5.2 Site-Specific Objectives

4.5.3 Best Professional Judgement

4.5.4 Discharges to Ocean Waters

4.5.5 Discharges to Inland Surface Waters, Enclosed Bays, and Estuaries

4.5.5.1 Limitations for Conventional Pollutants

4.5.5.2 Limitations for Selected Toxic Pollutants

4.5.5.3 Whole Effluent Toxicity Limits and Control Program

4.5.5.3.1 Acute Toxicity

4.5.5.3.2 Chronic Toxicity

4.5.5.3.3 Toxicity Identification / Reduction Evaluation

4.5.5.3.4 Effluent Toxic Characterization Program

4.6 Calculation of Water Quality-Based Effluent Limitations

4.6.1 Dilution Ratios

4.6.1.1 Deep Water Discharges

4.6.1.2 Shallow Water Discharges

4.6.2 Fresh Water vs. Marine Water

4.6.3 Background Concentrations

4.7 Implementation of Effluent Limitations

4.7.1 Performance-Based Limits

4.7.2 Site-Specific Objective Incorporation

4.7.3 Averaging Periods

4.7.4 Method Detection Limits, Practical Quantitation Levels (PQL), and Limits of Quantification (LOQ)

4.7.5 Selection of Parameters

4.7.6 Compliance Schedules

4.8 Stormwater Discharges

4.9 Wet Weather Overflows

4.9.1 Federal Combined Sewer Overflow Control Policy

4.9.2 Surface Impoundment Overflow Protection

4.10 Discharge of Treated Groundwater

4.11 Municipal Facilities

4.11.1 City and County of San Francisco

4.11.2 South Bay Municipal Dischargers (San Jose/Santa Clara, Palo Alto, and Sunnyvale)

4.11.3 Fairfield-Suisun Sewer District (FSSD)

4.11.4 Livermore-Amador Valley

4.11.4.1 Salt Management in the Livermore-Amador Valley

4.11.4.2 Water Recycling and Valley Water-Wastewater Management

4.11.4.3 Valley-wide Salt Management Plan

4.11.4.4 General Water Reuse Permit

4.11.4.5 Water Board Support for Water Quality Management Strategies Protecting the Livermore-Amador Valley Groundwater Basin

4.11.5 East Bay Municiapl Utility District (EBMUD) and Local Agencies

4.12 Industrial Facilities

4.13 Pretreatment and Pollution Prevention

4.13.1 California Pretreatment Program

4.13.2 Pollution Prevention

4.13.2.1 General Pollution Prevention Programs

4.13.2.2 Pollution Prevention Program History

4.13.2.3 General Pollution Prevention Programs for POTWs

4.13.2.4 Targeted Pollution Prevention Programs for POTWs

4.13.2.5 Direct Industrial Discharger Pollution Prevention Program

4.14 Urban Runoff Management

4.14.1 Management of Pollutant Discharge From Storm Drains

4.14.1.1 Baseline Control Program

4.14.1.2 Comprehensive Control Program

4.14.2 Highway Runoff Control Program

4.14.3 Industrial Activity Control Program

4.14.3.1 Tier I: General Permitting

4.14.3.2 Tier II: Specific Watershed Permitting

4.14.3.3 Tier III: Industry-Specific Permitting

4.14.3.4 Tier IV: Facility-Specific Permitting

4.14.4 Construction Activity Control Program

4.15 Agricultural Wastewater Management

4.15.1 Animal Confinement Operations

4.15.1.1 Dairy Waste Management

4.15.1.2 Dairy Waste Regulation

4.15.2 Irrigation Operations

4.16 Water Recycling

4.16.1 Water Recycling and Reuse Program

4.16.2 Interagency Water Recycling Program and Coordination

4.17 Municipal Wastewater Sludge Management

4.18 On-Site Wastewater Treatment and Dispersal Systems

4.18.1 Policy on Discrete Sewerage Facilities

4.18.2 On-Site System Wastewater Requirements

4.18.3 Graywater Systems

4.19 Erosion and Sediment Control

4.20 Dredging and Disposal of Dredged Sediment

4.20.1 Regulatory Framework

4.20.2 Environmental Impacts of Dredging and Disposal in the Aquatic Environment

4.20.3 Dredging Study Programs

4.20.3.1 Dredging Management Program

4.20.3.2 Long-Term Management Strategy (LTMS)

4.20.3.3 The LTMS Process

4.20.3.4 Ocean Studies

4.20.3.5 In-Bay Studies

4.20.3.6 Upland and Non-tidal/Reuse Studies

4.20.4 Wetland Restoration Using Dredged Material

4.20.4.1 Sonoma Baylands

4.20.4.2 Montezuma Wetlands Restoration Project

4.20.5 Water Board Policies on Dredging and Dredged Sediment Disposal

4.20.5.1 Need for Regional and Local Monitoring

4.20.5.2 Material Disposal Restriction

4.20.5.3 Volume Targets

4.20.5.4 Volume Target Implementation

4.20.5.5 Use of Testing Guidelines

4.20.5.6 Applicability of Waste Discharge Requirements

4.20.5.7 Dredging Windows

4.20.5.8 Impacts at Dredge Site

4.20.5.9 Policy on Land and Ocean Disposal

4.20.5.10 Policy on Dredged Material Disposal Permit Coordination

4.20.5.11 Current Corps of Engineers Policy on Volume of Material Disposed of at the Alcatraz Disposal Site

4.21 Mines and Mineral Producers

4.21.1 Inactive Sites

4.21.2 Active Sites

4.21.3 Mining Program Goal

4.21.4 Mining Program Description

4.22 Vessel Wastes

4.23 Wetland Protection and Management

4.23.1 Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals

4.23.2 Determination of Applicable Beneficial Uses for Wetlands

4.23.3 Hydrology

4.23.4 Wetland Fill

4.24 Oil Spills

4.25 Groundwater Protection and Management

4.25.1 Application of Water Quality Objectives

4.25.2 Requirements for Site Investigation, Cleanup and Site Closure

4.25.2.1 State Water Board Policies for Groundwater Cleanup

4.25.2.2 Elements of Groundwater Cleanup and Site Closure

4.25.2.3 Setting Cleanup Levels

Groundwater Cleanup Levels

Soil Cleanup Levels

4.25.3 Program Areas

4.25.3.1 Spills, Leaks, Investigation, and Clean-up Program (SLIC)

4.25.3.2 Underground Storage Tank Program

4.25.3.3 Landfill Program (Formerly Hazardous and Nonhazardous Waste Disposal)

4.25.3.4 Department of Defense and Department of Energy Program

4.25.3.5 Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act

4.25.4 Groundwater Protection Studies

4.25.4.1 Groundwater Protection and Beneficial Use Studies

4.25.4.2 State Board Groundwater Protection Planning Contract

4.25.4.3 Integrated Environmental Management Project

4.25.4.4 Groundwater Resource Study

4.25.4.5 Shallow Drainage Wells

4.26 Emerging Program Areas

4.26.1 Wetland Restoration

4.26.2 Desalination

4.26.3 Emerging Toxic Pollutants of Concern

4.26.4 Groundwater Protection Issues

4.26.4.1 Vertical Conduits

4.26.4.2 Horizontal Conduits / Sanitary Sewer Leaks to Groundwater

4.26.4.3 Groundwater Surface Water Interactions

4.26.4.4 Saltwater Intrusion

4.26.4.5 Tracking Institutional Controls

4.26.5 Sediment

4.26.6 National "Portfields" Initiative

4.26.7 Hydromodification