Division of Water Rights - The Division will perform an HRTW analysis consistent with guidelines to incorrect policies, regulations and procedures that reflect current HRTW activities and need for further staff training, stakeholder involvement and reporting of HRTW actions for transparency. The Division maintains prioritization criteria for processing water rights applications to appropriate water and change petitions of existing water rights. These prioritization criteria could be revised to include a new criterion for a project that would assist in obtaining safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. Language has been drafted. Office of Enforcement - We specifically look to identify ways to implement the HRTW in enforcement actions. North Coast Regional Board We have several upcoming basin planning actions where there is a nexus between the BP - actions and HTRW. a. First, our board will adopt an updated triennial review list this spring, the first since passage of the HTRW Act. We intend to include a finding in the adopting resolution regarding consideration and implementation of HTRW. b. We also are preparing a basin plan amendment that updates water quality objectives and that includes updates to maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for drinking water, and that will propose a toxicity objective for groundwater. Both of these elements will provide important tools for drinking water protection. c. Finally, once the preceding basin plan amendment is adopted, we will move toward developing a comprehensive groundwater protection strategy that will include assessing groundwater quality at a basin scale in the region, and developing an approach to salt and nutrient management planning for the region. Other elements of our regional programs that may be of interest. a. Groundwater quality issue identification. There is a dearth of basin-scale groundwater quality data for many parts of the region. We have several efforts that involve or will involve data collection with direct relevance to groundwater quality in rural and disadvantaged parts of the region. Our dairy program includes sampling of well water in the dairy production parts of the region. Salt an nutrient planning and possibly ag permitting programs will include data collection efforts in sensitive or high priority groundwater use areas. b. Coordination with Division of Drinking Water. We see an opportunity to cross link the work of DDW and RB to better identify threats to drinking water and potential responses.
Division of Water Rights - The Division will perform an HRTW analysis consistent with guidelines to incorrect policies, regulations and procedures that reflect current HRTW activities and need for further staff training, stakeholder involvement and reporting of HRTW actions for transparency. The Division maintains prioritization criteria for processing water rights applications to appropriate water and change petitions of existing water rights. These prioritization criteria could be revised to include a new criterion for a project that would assist in obtaining safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes. Language has been drafted. Office of Enforcement - We specifically look to identify ways to implement the HRTW in enforcement actions. North Coast Regional Board - We have several upcoming basin planning actions where there is a nexus between the BP actions and HTRW. a. First, our board will adopt an updated triennial review list this spring, the first since passage of the HTRW Act. We intend to include a finding in the adopting resolution regarding consideration and implementation of HTRW. b. We also are preparing a basin plan amendment that updates water quality objectives and that includes updates to maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for drinking water, and that will propose a toxicity objective for groundwater. Both of these elements will provide important tools for drinking water protection. c. Finally, once the preceding basin plan amendment is adopted, we will move toward developing a comprehensive groundwater protection strategy that will include assessing groundwater quality at a basin scale in the region, and developing an approach to salt and nutrient management planning for the region. Other elements of our regional programs that may be of interest. a. Groundwater quality issue identification. There is a dearth of basin-scale groundwater quality data for many parts of the region. We have several efforts that involve or will involve data collection with direct relevance to groundwater quality in rural and disadvantaged parts of the region. Our dairy program includes sampling of well water in the dairy production parts of the region. Salt an nutrient planning and possibly ag permitting programs will include data collection efforts in sensitive or high priority groundwater use areas. b. Coordination with Division of Drinking Water. We see an opportunity to cross link the work of DDW and RB to better identify threats to drinking water and potential responses.
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