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What is a Local Management Zone?
A Management Zone is a regulatory alternative, or alternative compliance pathway (Pathway B), for the Central Valley Water Board to permit discharges of nitrate to waters of the state. The Central Valley Water Board ensures implementation of commitments made by dischargers through waste discharge requirements (WDRs).
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Nitrate Control Program Overview
CV-SALTS has developed the Central Valley’s Nitrate Control Program to address historical nitrate problems affecting groundwater. The Nitrate Control Program’s three primary goals consist of:
- Provide safe drinking water, particularly for residents in affected areas, as quickly as possible
- Reduce nitrate impacts to water supplies
- Restore groundwater quality where feasible.
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Join the Tule Basin Management Zone
Joining the Tule Basin Management Zone offers several key benefits for permittees choosing to work together to achieve nitrate compliance:
- Work collectively to ensure safe drinking water supplies to affected areas within the Management Zone.
- Share resources, knowledge, and costs of nitrate management by working with others.
- Manage nitrate problems locally with more flexibility than under past regulations.
- Avoid “going it alone” under demanding individual permit (Pathway A)
- Apply local knowledge to implement nitrate reduction actions by adapting management to local conditions.
- Support a vision that manages nitrate for a viable local economy and community over the long-term.
Permitted dischargers who received a Notice to Comply from the Central Valley Water Board should consider joining the Tule Basin Management Zone.
If you have received a Notice to Comply from the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and are seeking to choose Pathway B – Local Management Zone, and would like to become part of the Tule Basin Management Zone, please fill out the form below.
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