Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Watershed (Draft)

A water quality control plan consists of: (1) beneficial uses to be protected; (2) water quality objectives for the reasonable protection of beneficial uses; and (3) a program of implementation for achieving the water quality objectives. This Plan establishes water quality objectives for which implementation can be accomplished by assigning responsibility to water right holders and water users to mitigate for the effects on the designated beneficial uses of their diversions and use of water. Together, the beneficial uses and the water quality objectives established to reasonably protect the beneficial uses are called water quality standards under the terminology of the federal Clean Water Act.

Related documents:

Main Draft Report

Final Staff Report in Support of Sacramento/Delta Updates to the Bay-Delta Plan

Appendix G2: Final Scientific Basis Report Supplement in Support of,Proposed Voluntary Agreements for the Sacramento River, Delta, and Tributaries Update to the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Water Quality Control Plan

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