Water Quality Program

Statewide Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program Information

Boating Clean and Green

The Boating Clean and Green Campaign is an education and outreach program that promotes environmentally sound boating practices to marine business and boaters in California. As part of its efforts to promote clean green boating, the Commission facilitates the northern California chapter of the California Clean Boating Network (CCBN), trains "Dockwalkers" to conduct face-to-face boater education, and influences the purchasing power of boaters through its "Shopping Clean and Green" project.

California’s Nonpoint Source Program

The Plan for California's Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program (NPS Program Plan) provides a single unified, coordinated statewide approach to dealing with NPS pollution. A total of 28 state agencies are working collaboratively through the Interagency Coordinating Committee to implement the NPS Program Plan.

Interagency Coordinating Committee (IACC)

The IACC is a cooperative working group composed of 28 State agencies involved in implementing California’s Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program (NPS Program Plan). Its goals are to: (1) Improve interagency coordination and promote statewide consistency in implementing the NPS Program Plan; (2) Promote the watershed approach in addressing nonpoint source pollution; and (3) Provide a forum for resolving policy and programmatic conflicts among State agencies.

California Water and Land Use Partnership

The California Water and Land Use Partnership is a member of the National Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) Network, which educates local land use decision makers about the relationship of land use to natural resource protection, with a focus on water resources.

The California Water and Land Use Partnership was formed by local, state, and national agencies to develop an educational program linking land use to water quality. We are working with local communities to develop the tools necessary to protect natural resources, including water quality, and community character. The intent is to keep California’s land use decision makers updated on nonpoint source (NPS) pollution related issues. Natural resource based planning is introduced as a framework for addressing land use and water quality issues.


Critical Coastal Areas (CCA) Program

California’s Critical Coastal Areas (CCA) Program is an innovative program to foster collaboration among local stakeholders and government agencies, to better coordinate resources and focus efforts on coastal-zone watershed areas in critical need of protection from polluted runoff.

The Model Urban Runoff Program

The Model Urban Runoff Program (MURP) is a “how-to” guide for local governments to address the issues of polluted runoff in the urban environment. The program consists of a manual and associated workshops that will help small municipalities develop, finance, implement, and enforce a comprehensive program for managing storm water pollution and improving water quality.

California's Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program (January 2000) 

Nonpoint Source Program Strategy & Implementation Plan, 1998-2013, Volume 1 (231 pages) [PDF]

• First Addendum To Five-Year Implementation Plan For 1998-2003 (November 2000)[PDF]

California Management Measures For Polluted Runoff (CAMMPR), Volume 2

• Table of Contents, Introduction, Implementing Agencies for CZARA Management Measures [PDF]
• Agriculture [PDF]
• Forestry (Silviculture) [PDF]
• Urban Management Measures [PDF]
• Marinas & Recreational Boating [PDF]
• Hydromodification (includes modification of stream & river channels, dams and water impoundments, and streambank/shoreline erosion) [PDF]
• Wetlands, Riparian Areas, & Vegetated Treatment Systems [PDF]

Attachment 3 : MOU between SWRCB and CCC

Attachment 4 & Attachment 5 : Two memoranda from Cal/EPA and the Resources Agency

Model Urban Runoff Program Documents
 

Fact Sheets

• Low Impact Development (LID): a Sensible Approach to Land Development and Stormwater Management, from the California Water & Land Use Partnership
• How Urbanization Affects the Water Cycle, from the California Water & Land Use Partnership

Other Reports

• Final Biennial Progress Report on California's Efforts to Prevent and Control Nonpoint Source Pollution - July 1, 1999 to June 30, 2001
• Nonpoint Source Biennial Progress Report - July 2001 through June 2003
• California Nonpoint Source Program Five-Year Implementation Plan, July 2003 - June 2008

Outside Links

• State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program
• NOAA Office of Coastal and Ocean Resource Management (OCRM) Coastal Zone Management Program
• U.S. EPA Region 9 Water Programs
• U.S. EPA NPDES Storm Water Program
• U.S. EPA Nonpoint Source Pointers (Fact Sheets)
• Clean Water Initiative (from EPA at their site)
• Boating Clean and Green
• Los Angeles Basin Contaminated Sediments Task Force
• California Unified Watershed Assessment: Clean Water Action Plan