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The 9 Regional Water Quality Control Boards are the: [27] North Coast RWQCB - rivers draining to the Pacific Ocean between the Oregon border and Tomales Bay; San Francisco Bay RWQCB - rivers draining to San Francisco Bay (except the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers) and to the Pacific Ocean from Tomales Bay south to Pescadero Creek.
"If you are on a municipal water supply, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires them to provide a yearly Drinking Water Quality Report that you can view on their websites," Dr. Yancey ...
In 2016, more than 5,000 drinking water systems were found to be in violation of the lead and copper rule. [56] Congress passed the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act in 2011. This amendment to the SDWA, effective in 2014, tightened the definition of "lead-free" plumbing fixtures and fittings. [57]
" San Francisco Chronicle. Kamiya, Gary. (March 20, 2014). "History Written in Water." San Francisco Magazine. Prado, Mark. ((May 24, 2013). "Bay Area Beaches Get Top Marks for Water Quality Report in Spring and Summer." Marin Independent Journal. Fimrite, Peter. (September 19, 2011). "$44 Million settles Cosco Busan Oil Spill in San Francisco Bay.
The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board gave a huge fine for water quality violations against a property owner in rural California. The owners failed to get the necessary permits prior to developing the land, and their growing resulted in discharges of highly erodible sediment and the unauthorized placement of filling a tributary.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) is a public agency of the City and County of San Francisco that provides water, wastewater, and electric power services to the city. The SFPUC also provides wholesale water service to an additional 1.9 million customers in three other San Francisco Bay Area counties. [1]
In 1923, EBMUD was founded due to the rapid population growth and severe drought in the area. The district constructed Pardee Dam (finished in 1929) on the Mokelumne River in the Sierra Nevada, and a large steel pipe Mokelumne Aqueduct to transport the water from Pardee Reservoir across the Central Valley to the San Pablo Reservoir located in the hills of the East Bay region.
Most importantly, San Francisco would lose its source of high-quality mountain water, and would have to depend on lower-quality water from other reservoirs – which would require costly filtration and re-engineering of the aqueduct system – to meet its needs. [77] [78] The economic wisdom of removing the dam has been frequently questioned. [79]