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 3939.28 - A Total Maximum Daily Load for Trash in Lake Elizabeth, Munz Lake and Lake Hughes

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (Los
					 Angeles Water Board) Resolution No. R4-2007-009, adopted on June 7, 2007 by the
					 Los Angeles Water Board, modified the regulatory provisions of the Water
					 Quality Control Plan for the Los Angeles Region by:
(1) revising the Table of Contents,
(2) adding introductory text for Chapter 7
				  (Total Maximum Daily Loads), and
(3) establishing a Total Maximum Daily Load
				  for trash in Lake Elizabeth, Munz Lake, and Lake Hughes.
The amendment establishes the numeric target with which
					 wasteload allocations for point source discharges and load allocations for
					 nonpoint source discharges are calculated. Wasteload allocations will be
					 implemented through storm water permits via the authority vested in the
					 Executive Officer by section
					 13267 of the Porter-Cologne Water
					 Quality Control Act (Water Code section
					 13000 et seq.).
					 Load allocations shall be implemented through either (1) a conditional waiver
					 from waste discharge requirements, or (2) an alternative program implemented
					 through waste discharge requirements or an individual waiver or another
					 appropriate order of the Los Angeles Water Board.
The Regional Board adopted Resolution No. R19-005 on June
					 13, 2019 revising the Lake Elizabeth, Munz Lake and Lake Hughes Trash TMDL's in
					 light of the "Amendment to the Water Quality Control Plan for Ocean Waters of
					 California to Control Trash" and "Part 1 Trash Provisions of the Water Quality
					 Control Plan for Inland Surface Waters, Enclosed Bays, and Estuaries," known as
					 the statewide Trash Amendments. The Los Angeles Water Board determined that the
					 implementation requirements in the existing Lake Elizabeth, Munz Lake, and Lake
					 Hughes Trash TMDL should not be aligned with the scope of the statewide Trash
					 Amendments because it could not be determined if there is a potential for
					 non-priority land use areas to discharge significant amounts of trash. All of
					 the catch basins draining to Lake Elizabeth are located in non-priority land
					 use areas and have already been addressed with full capture devices or full
					 capture equivalency. However, it has been found in other Los Angeles Water
					 Board Trash TMDLs that generally, non-priority land use areas do have the
					 potential to discharge significant amounts of trash to waterbodies. Therefore,
					 stormwater dischargers assigned wasteload allocations will still be required to
					 address point sources of trash in all land use areas.
The revised TMDL removes the waivers of Waste Discharge
					 Requirements to regulate nonpoint sources of trash and replaces the requirement
					 with language referencing the statewide Policy for Implementation and
					 Enforcement of the Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program.
1. New
					 section summarizing amendments to the basin plan filed 2-8-2008; amendments
					 approved by State Water Resources Control Board Resolution No. 2007-0073 on
					 12-4-2007; amendments approved by OAL pursuant to Government Code section
					 11353 on
					 2-8-2008 (Register 2008, No. 6).
2. Amendment of section summarizing
					 basin plan filed 10-25-2021; amendments approved by State Water Resources
					 Control Board Resolution No. 2020-0002 on 1-21-2020; amendments approved by OAL
					 pursuant to Government Code section
					 11353 on
					 10-25-2021 (Register 2021, No. 44).