California Code of Regulations
Title 23 - Waters
Division 4 - Regional Water Quality Control Boards
Chapter 1 - Water Quality Control Plans, Policies, and Guidelines
Article 2 - San Francisco Bay Region
Section 3919.20 - Total Maximum Daily Load or Bacteria in the Petaluma River Watershed
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
On November 13, 2019, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted Resolutions No. R2-2019-0030, amending the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay Region. This amendment establishes a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for bacteria in the Petaluma River and its tributaries (Petaluma River Watershed). The amendment includes new regulatory provisions, summarized below:
1. Numeric targets for fecal indicator bacteria in the Petaluma River Watershed to protect water contact recreation;
2. A TMDL for fecal indicator bacteria in the Petaluma River Watershed;
3. Allocations of the TMDL among controllable sources of bacteria, including a wastewater treatment plant, sanitary sewer collection systems, private sewer laterals, onsite wastewater treatment systems, vessel marinas, homeless encampments, confined animal facilities, grazing lands, domestic pet waste, and municipal and California Department of Transportation stormwater runoff; and
4. A program of implementation that includes actions to achieve the TMDL, a time schedule for actions, and a description of monitoring to be undertaken to determine compliance.
1. New section summarizing amendments to basin plan filed 10-26-2020; amendments approved by State Water Resources Control Board Resolution No. 2020-0018 on 6-2-2020; amendments approved by OAL pursuant to Government Code section 11353 on 10-26-2020 (Register 2020, No. 44).
