Regional Water Quality Control Board

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1 Regional Water Quality Control Board Region 7 Policy Priorities California Regional Water Quality Control Board - Colorado River Basin Jose L. Angel, Interim Executive Officer, P.E.

2 CA Regional Water Boards 2

3 Figure 1Ǧ3 MWA Regional Board Boundaries Salt and Nutrient Management Plan, Mojave Water Agency Page 1-5

4 Region 7 Planning Areas Lucerne Lucerne Valley 29 Palms Joshua Tree Yucca Valley Coachella Groundwater Recycling Ag runoff Septic systems Anza-Borrego Groundwater Protection Colorado River Topock Septic Systems Hayfield Not much Salton Sea Main Regional Problem Imperial Valley Ag runoff Pollution from Mexico 4

5 Region 7 Policy Priorities Legal mandates Salton Sea New River Groundwater protection Salt-Nutrients Management Plans Septic systems Funding Priorities 5

6 Priority Groundwater Basins High Desert Areas Joshua Tree Basin Warren Valley Basin (Yucca Valley) Copper Mountain Valley Basin Lucerne Valley Basin Twentynine Palms Valley Basin Morongo Valley Basin Coachella Valley Basin Indio San Gorgonio Pass Mission Creek Desert Hot Springs Borrego Valley Basin 6

7 Lucerne Valley Lucerne Valley North: Total Dissolved Solids > 1700 mg/l Lucerne Valley South: localized high NO 3, otherwise OK Monitoring septic system density Need Local Area Management Program 7

8 Figure TDS Concentration Contours Page 4-12 Salt and Nutrient Management Plan, Mojave Water Agency

9 Joshua Tree Chromium IV in all 5 supply wells $15M problem (individual well-head treatment) Threat from septic system (NO 3 ) USGS Study recommendations Density-based limitations Package treatment plants 9

10 Yucca Valley: Top Priority Septic systems Basin Plan Prohibition HDWD project lead for sewer system Phase 1 to comply by 2021 ($145M) Phases 2 and 3 to comply 2025 Salts-nutrients Addressed through WDRs for proposed Wastewater Reclamation Facility 10

11 New Boundary Map

12 State Financial Assistance Prop 84 Projects that are part of an Integrated Regional Watershed Management Plan (IRWMP) Prop 1 State Water Board administering $2.1B Wastewater Stormwater Drinking water Recycled water: $625M Cleanup and Abatement Account Prioritized for drought measures 12

13 Prop 1: Small Communities Wastewater $260 million to the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF) Small Community Grant (SCG) Fund At least 10 percent ($26M) to severely disadvantaged communities (SDACs) Up to 15% for multi-disciplinary technical assistance for small DACs and SDACs Slide No. 13

14 Drinking Water $260 million available for grants and loans Up to $5 million grant per project Up to $20 million grant per regional project that benefits at least one small DAC Slide No. 14

15 Groundwater Funding Programs Grants Proposition 1 Groundwater Sustainability $800M Senate Bill 445 Site Cleanup Subaccount Program $19.5 Loans Proposition 1 Groundwater Sustainability Grant-loan split not yet determined Slide No. 15

16 Groundwater Sustainability Eligible Applicants Public Agencies, Tribes, Public Utilities, Non-Profits, Mutual Water Companies Eligible Projects Prevent or Clean up Contamination (natural and anthropogenic) of Groundwater that serves or has served as a source of Drinking Water Priorities Threat posed by groundwater contamination to drinking water supply Potential for groundwater contamination to spread/impair Potential of project to enhance local water supply reliability Potential of project to recharge vulnerable, high-use basins Projects with no viable responsible party Slide No. 16

17 Process Utilize the CWSRF application process Online FAST Simplifies the funding process Grants easily combined with low-interest (loan) financing Applications accepted continuously Funded in the order applications are completed and approved Planning and construction projects Slide No. 17

18 Questions/Comments? 18