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The Environmental Engineering & Utilities Divisions provide support related to the design, operation and maintenance of the County's public water systems in the Sheridan community, and at the Eastern Regional Landfill. Sustainable Groundwater ManagementPlacer County is part of the West Placer Groundwater Sustainability Agency, a multi-agency group formed to monitor and manage the local groundwater basin in accordance with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.Placer County, along with the cities of Roseville and Lincoln, and Placer County Water Agency, and in participation with the California American Water Company, adopted a Groundwater Sustainability Plan in 2022. The plan is a long-range planning document aimed at preservation and enhancement of portions of the North American groundwater basin (NASb). The plan outlines evaluation criteria, projects, and management actions to ensure continued health of the basin for continued use by our communities, agriculture, and the environment.Visit the West Placer Groundwater Sustainability Agency website for more information. The adopted plan can be accessed at: North American Subbasin.Make Water Conservation a Way of LifeOn March 28th, 2022, Governor Newsom signed an Executive Order proclaiming continuing drought conditions. The order calls on all Californians to strive to limit their summertime water use and to use water more efficiently, reducing water use by at least 15% from 2020 levels, in order to help conserve available water supplies. Water conservation tips:Inside: Install water efficient showerheads and take shorter showers.Run full loads in the dishwasher and washing machine.Turn off the tap when shaving, brushing your teeth, and washing your hands. Outside:Spread mulch in landscaping beds to retain soil moisture. Reduce landscape irrigation.Prevent irrigation runoff.Water in the morning to reduce water evaporation.Find and fix leaks.Don’t hose off driveways or sidewalks; use a broom.Use a shut-off nozzle on hose ends. More tips and resources on water conservation can be found on Save Our Water, or visit California’s drought site for information on current conditions and the State’s response.
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CEDEN is a central location to find and share information about California’s water bodies, including streams, lakes, rivers, and the coastal ocean. Many groups in California monitor water quality, aquatic habitat, and wildlife health to ensure good stewardship of our ecological resources, and CEDEN aggregates this data and makes it accessible to environmental managers and the public.
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CEDEN administrator at ceden@waterboards.ca.gov.
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This searchable database contains an extensive compendium of numeric water quality thresholds for over 860 chemical constituents and water quality parameters. For more information, please visit the instructions webpage.
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The eWRIMS Database System provides information about water rights throughout California. It includes information on Statements of Water Diversion and Use that have been filed by water diverters, as well as registrations, certificates, and water right permits and licenses that have been issued by the State Water Resources Control Board and its predecessors. You can search for water rights by several criteria, including the water right owner's name, watershed, stream system, and county.
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VA disability compensation provides tax-free monthly payments. If you have a health condition caused by exposure to burn pits or other specific hazards in the air, soil, or water during your service, you may be eligible. Read this page to learn more.

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This report allows the user to select whether the first display is by county, regional board, or violation type. The user then is given options to choose program type, violation source, agency type, and date range. The user can then drill down to a listing of facilities with violations and then to more details about a particular facility’s violations, in accordance with the original criteria selected. For more information about the report and how to navigate, we have developed a Fact Sheet.
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SMARTS provides a platform where dischargers, regulators, and the public can enter, manage, and view storm water data including permit registration documents, compliance, and monitoring data associated with California's Storm Water General Permits. SMARTS is compliant with the EPA's Cross-Media Electronic Reporting Rule (CROMERR) which sets requirements for electronic reporting of National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit and report submittals. Click on the button labeled ‘View SW Data’ to view public reports from the SMARTS program.
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CEDEN is a central location to find and share information about California’s water bodies, including streams, lakes, rivers, and the coastal ocean. Many groups in California monitor water quality, aquatic habitat, and wildlife health to ensure good stewardship of our ecological resources, and CEDEN aggregates this data and makes it accessible to environmental managers and the public.
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Oil and natural gas production have a rich history in the State of New York. The first commercial natural gas well in the United States was drilled in Fredonia, New York in 1821. The first commercial oil well in the state was drilled not long after in 1865 in Carrollton, NY.
Solution salt mining in New York dates back to the 1800's. The first solution salt mining well in the state was drilled in 1878. New York is consistently in the top three salt-producing states in the United States.
More than 75,000 wells have been drilled in New York; about 14,000 of these are still active, and new drilling continues. The interactive map, DECinfo Locator, provides access to well locations and links to well-specific information.

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Hydrocarbons (oil and natural gas) are used in everyday life, from home heating oil/gas, to gasoline in our cars, to fabric, paint, and plastics manufacturing. Salt from solution mining wells is used for chlorine, water conditioning, road salt, and food products. Thus, oil, gas, and solution salt mining wells remain an important part of New York's economy. Extraction of oil and gas contributes half a billion dollars annually to the state's economy while the value of New York's solution salt mining production is estimated at over $100 million.
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Any potential environmental impacts from drilling and well operation are minimized through regulations and a permitting program. Permits are tools that allow DEC to implement guidelines and conditions to protect the land and environment during and after oil and gas extraction.
When a permit application is received, the Division of Mineral Resources performs a detailed review of a proposed project and assess and potential environmental impacts in accordance with the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR). All well drilling applications must comply with the ECL and its implementing regulations which:

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protect groundwater by mandating a casing and cementing program for each well.
The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection
Storage Tank Cleanup Fund (USTCF) to support contamination cleanup at
leaking petroleum underground storage tanks. This funding will allow
SWRCB both to reimburse applicants for a backlog of cost claims
associated with storage tank cleanup and to respond to new claims. The
current funding builds on similar one-time local assistance
augmentations totaling $481 million from the USTCF in 2021‑22 and
2022‑23. The budget also includes a $30 million transfer from the USTCF
to the Orphan Site Cleanup Fund to pay for costs associated with tanks
that lack a responsible party to pay for cleanup.
Shifts Water Arrearages Funding Back to
SWRCB. The budget shifts $200 million in federal
Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Fund dollars from CSD back to SWRCB for the
California Water and Wastewater Arrearage Payment Program. These funds
were originally allocated to SWRCB as part of a $1 billion appropriation
in 2021‑22 for water bill arrearages. The 2022‑23 budget shifted
$200 million of the total to CSD for its Low Income Household Water
Assistance Program. Because other federal funding was available for that
program, however, that funding ultimately went unspent. The SWRCB
program helps to address unpaid water bills that accrued during the
COVID-19 pandemic by providing funding to operators of water systems to
backfill their revenue losses. Budget trailer bill language expands
eligible uses of both this $200 million and existing SWRCB unspent
program funding (approximately $400 million) to include residential and
commercial debt related to both water and wastewater. (Previously,
funding for this program prioritized water bill debt and was only
available for wastewater treatment providers if funds remained.) In
addition, the language extends the eligibility period of unpaid bills
for which operators can claim reimbursement, moving the end date from
June 15, 2021 to December 31, 2022.
Augments SGMA Oversight Resources. The