Sacramento River Conservation Forum Bruce Houdesheldt Director Regulatory Affairs Northern California Water Association Elements of the Irrigated Lands Program ID: 1043156
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1. Irrigated Lands Program Update – Sacramento River Conservation Forum Bruce Houdesheldt Director Regulatory Affairs Northern California Water Association
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5. Elements of the Irrigated Lands ProgramMonitoring and Reporting Program PlanAnnual Monitoring Report – 2009 and 2010Management PlanManagement Plan Progress Report TMDLsFuture Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program
6. Monitoring and Reporting Program PlanMonitoring begun in 2002 at sites representative of irrigated agricultureIn 2009 Regional Board established Monitoring Cycle – Assessment, Core, CoreButte Yuba Sutter Subwatershed Monitoring Sites – Lower Honcut Creek @ Hwy 70 (12)Lower Snake River @ Nuestro Road (12)Pine Creek @ Nord Gianella Road (12)Sacramento Slough Bridge near Karnak (12)Butte Slough @ Pass Road (6)Gilsizer Slough @ GW Road (3)Wadsworth Canal @ S Butte Road
7. Results to DateFrom 2005 -2010 (Exceedances/Samples)Drinking WaterNitrate (0/128)TDS (1/103AgricultureBoron (0/30)Conductivity (9/194)Recreation E. coli (45/153)
8. Results to DateFrom 2005 -2010 (Exceedances/Samples)Aquatic LifeToxicity – Invertebrates (5/70)Toxicity – Fish (0/51)Toxicity – Algae (3/56)Toxicity – Sediment (2/15)Chlorpyrifos (5/114)Diaznon (5/114)Diuron (0/80)Malathion (2/114)Parathion, Methyl (1/114)Simazine (0/62)Copper, Dissolved (0/65)pH (5/182)Dissolved Oxygen (15/194)
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11. Management PlansGilsizer Slough – Diazinon, Salinity, Legacy Pesticides, E. coliLower Snake River – E. coliPine Creek – E. coli, ChlorpyrifosWadsworth Canal – E. coliLower Honcut – E. coli
12. Management Plan Implementation Cycle
13. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition Presented by: Sutter County Resource Conservation District (SCRCD)Larry Lloyd – District Manager
14. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition BYSWQC Boundaries.
15. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition BYSWQCA Three-County Coalition of irrigated agricultural producersApproximately 1,200 members Approximately 229,000 acres of irrigated agriculture215,629 tons of peaches92,481 tons of dried plums151,071 tons of walnuts38,517 tons of almonds in 2010.
16. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition Outreach and Education CoordinatorsSCRCD provides Outreach and Education CoordinatorsCentral Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board)Inform members on changing water quality regulationsAssist members in efforts to comply with the ILRP
17. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition Success Story
18. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality CoalitionUS Environmental Protection AgencyNonpoint Source Success Stories“Stakeholders Cooperate to Reduce Diazinon in Runoff from Dormant Season Spray”1994: Lower Feather River listed on 303(d) list for Diazinon impairment2003: Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) established2010: EPA delists LFR for Diazinon impairment
19. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition Lower Feather River TMDL
20. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition Lower Feather River TMDL"Implementation of the Feather River TMDL for Orchards." Best Management PracticesReduce Diazinon in Runoff from Dormant Season Spray
21. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition Bare Orchard Floor in September
22. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition SUCCESS STORYPerennial Sod Emerging in Late December
23. Butte-Yuba-Sutter Water Quality Coalition Outreach Coordinators Larry Lloyd, Sutter County Resource Conservation DistrictJim Cornelius, Sutter County Resource Conservation DistrictAdministrators Megan Foster, Yuba/Sutter Farm BureauJaime Robertson, Yuba/Sutter Farm Bureau
24. Future Irrigated Lands ProgramGroundwater qualityTiering based on threat to surface and ground water qualityGroundwater Quality Monitoring Advisory WorkgroupILRP Stakeholder MeetingSacramento Valley Water Quality Coalition Order – Summer or Fall 2012
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