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 3939.27 - A Total Maximum Daily Load for Trash in the Ventura River Estuary

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (Los
					 Angeles Water Board) Resolution No. R4-2007-008, 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 the Ventura River Estuary.
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 Ventura River Estuary Trash TMDL 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 Ventura River Estuary 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 the Ventura River Estuary, whether located in priority or
					 non-priority areas, have already been addressed with full capture devices.
					 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, storm water 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. The revised TMDL
					 also separates requirements for the California Department of Transportation
					 from requirements for other MS4 permittees, consistent with the statewide Trash
					 Amendments.
1. New
					 section summarizing amendment to basin plan filed 2-11-2008; amendment approved
					 by State Water Resources Control Board Resolution No. 2007-0072 on 12-4-2007;
					 amendment approved by OAL pursuant to Government Code section
					 11353 on
					 2-11-2008 (Register 2008, No. 7).
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).