CV Salinity Coalition

By Julia Scott • California Watch • May 15, 2010

The Technical Advisory Committee announces the availability of the Final Salt and Nitrate Source Pilot Implementation Report

The Final Report is now posted incorporating comments provided on the Full Draft Document from December 2009. Document links below are compressed to reduce download time. There is an Executive Summary as well as the full report and the Attachments.

Executive Summary (650 KB) Compressed

Main Report (20 MB) Compressed 

Attachments (14 MB) Compressed

This report will be presented at the March 11th Economic and Technical Committee meeting. The Presentation is posted here (10 MB).

Click the Read More button below for Information on the draft version or prior presentation materials.

CV-SALTS Public Outreach Workshops Held Comment Deadline May 30

Public Outreach Workshops Held April 26, 2010 in Woodland and April 27, 2010 in Tulare

The Central Valley Salinity Coalition (CVSC) and the CV-SALTS Executive Committee, in cooperation with the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board staff, will hold public workshops to seek input on the information that CV-SALTS should consider in developing salt and nitrate management plans and proposing modifications or amendments to the Water Quality Control Plan for the Sacramento River, San Joaquin River and Tulare Lake Water Basins and Sacramento Bay Delta (Basin Plans) that may incorporate new or revised numeric objectives and management plans, and a program of implementation for application to manage salts and nitrate in Central Valley surface water and groundwater.  The Workshop Notice contains full information on the workshops.  Please review the Workshop Questions prior to attending the Workshop.  You may submit responses in writing; see the Workshop Notice for procedures.  All written comments should be submitted no later than 12:00 Noon on May 30, 2010  Presentation 1 shows the outline of the agenda and background and presentation 2 shows news and issues.

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Regional Board Staff Make Presentation on New Report

As part of the CV-SALTS Technical Committee Meeting the regular Coordination Programs was host to the Regional Water Quality Control Boards presentation of the San Joaquin River Upstream Salt & Boron BPA/TMDL. 

After a brief introduction and preliminary information on integration and potential transfer of the program to a CV-SALTS effort, Jay Simi make the presentation of Draft Report - Salt Tolerance of Crops in the Lower San Joaquin River (Stanislaus to Merced River Reaches).  The PowerPoint Presentation reviewed the draft report and highlighted the information and approach used as well as the opportunity for comments.   The Commitee members and participants asked questions and provided comments on the presentation and the report.  

Jay will be available at future CV-SALTS meeting to respond to stakeholder questions. The comment period closes on May 19, 2010.