California Code of Regulations › Title 23 - Waters › Division 4 - Regional Water Quality Control Boards › Chapter 1 - Water Quality Control Plans, Policies, and Guidelines › Article 4 - Los Angeles Region › Section 3935 - A Total Maximum Daily Load for Trash for the los Angeles River Watershed

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				  Regional Board Resolution No. 2007-012 adopted on August 9, 2007 by the Los
				  Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, modified the Regulatory
				  provisions of the Water Quality Plan for the Los Angeles Region (Basin Plan) by
				  (1) revising the Table of Contents and the List of Figures, Tables, and
				  Inserts, (2) adding text to Chapter 3 (Water Quality Objectives) to reference
				  specific guidelines for the Los Angeles River, and (3) adding text to Chapter 7
				  (Total Maximum Daily Loads Summaries) which establishes a Total Maximum Daily
				  Load (TMDL) for Trash for the Los Angeles River Watershed. This TMDL addresses
				  the impairment of water quality due to trash being discharged to the river via
				  municipal storm drains; and will be implemented primarily through the National
				  Pollutant Discharge Elimination System storm-water permits.
The numeric target of zero trash in the river implicitly
					 incorporates a margin of safety, based on a conservative interpretation of
					 narrative water quality objectives. The TMDL sets baseline waste load
					 allocations for each responsible jurisdiction based on trash generation per
					 land use within its boundaries; and establishes a schedule for progressive
					 reductions from the baseline, over a period of nine years, until the numeric
					 target is reached. California Department of Transportation and the Los Angeles
					 County Department of Public Works and its municipal storm water co-permittees
					 are the responsible jurisdictions under this TMDL. To the extent nonpoint
					 source implementation of load allocations is necessary, it will be
					 accomplished, consistent with the
Plan for Nonprofit Source Pollution
					 Control Policy.
Responsible jurisdictions have the option of installing
					 Executive Officer certified full capture systems, or implementing a combination
					 of partial-capture trash best management practices and institutional controls
					 in order to meet compliance requirements. An implementation report, outlining
					 how responsible agencies intend to comply with the TMDL, will be prepared six
					 months after the effective date of the TMDL. The implementation phase of the
					 TMDL is scheduled to begin on September 30, 2008. Compliance with the TMDL
					 numeric target must be demonstrated no later than September 30,
					 2016.
(b) On June 11, 2015,
				  the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted Resolution No.
				  R15-006, amending the Basin Plan to revise the Total Maximum Daily Load for
				  Trash in the Los Angeles River Watershed and the Total Maximum Daily Load for
				  Trash in the Ballona Creek Watershed.
The Basin Plan Amendment, adopted by Resolution No.
					 R15-006, revises the TMDL adopted by Resolution No. 2007-012 by clarifying and
					 assigning load allocations for nonpoint sources to entities that own and/or
					 operate parks, open space, or recreational facilities located adjacent to the
					 river, estuary, and accompanying tributaries. The TMDL was further revised to
					 provide added flexibility for implementing the TMDL and demonstrating
					 compliance and includes additional receiving monitoring and nonpoint source
					 monitoring.
1. New
					 section summarizing amendments to basin plan filed 7-16-2002; amendments
					 adopted by the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board Resolution No.
					 01-013 on 9-19-2001; approved by State Water Resources Control Board Resolution
					 No. 02-0038 on 2-19-2002; amendments approved by OAL pursuant to Government
					 Code section
					 11353 on
					 7-16-2002 (Register 2002, No. 29).
2. Editorial correction of
					 HISTORY 1 (Register 2008, No. 27).
3. Section summarizing amendments
					 to basin plan filed 7-1-2008; amendments approved by State Water Resources
					 Control Board Resolution No. 2008-0024 on 4-15-2008; amendments approved by OAL
					 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11353 on
					 7-1-2008 (Register 2008, No. 27). Prior amendments of the basin plan adopted by
					 Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board Resolution No. 01-013 on
					 9-19-2001 set aside by appellate court in City of Arcadia v. State Water
					 Resources Control Board (2006), 135 Cal.App.4th 1392.
4. Designation
					 of existing section as subsection (a) and new subsection (b) summarizing
					 amendments to basin plan filed 5-4-2016; amendments approved by State Water
					 Resources Control Board Resolution No. 2015-0068 on 11-17-2015; amendments
					 approved by OAL pursuant to Government Code section
					 11353 on
					 5-4-2016 (Register 2016, No. 19).