Drinking Water Quality Program

Prepared for the Prop 13 Applicant Workshops

January 2002

Geographic Scope of Problem/Solution Areas

Geographic Scope of

Solution

Geographic Scope of Problem Identification

Sacramento

Sacramento River

San Joaquin

River

Stockton

Suisun Marsh

Program Goal for Water Quality

To improve the quality of the waters of the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta Estuary for all beneficial uses, including domestic, industrial, agricultural, recreation, and aquatic habitat.

Drinking Water Quality Program Objectives

To continuously improve source water quality that allows municipal water suppliers to deliver safe, reliable, and affordable drinking that meets and, where feasible, is better than applicable drinking water standards.

DWQP Focus

Integrate protection of and improvements in Bay-Delta drinking water quality across all federal and State agencies, from source to tap source water protection water management treatment and distribution

Pollutants of Concern

Drinking Water Quality Pathogens Organic Carbon Bromide Salinity/Total Dissolved Solids Turbidity Nutrients Taste and odor

CALFED Drinking Water Quality Targets

50 µg/L bromide and 3.0 mg/L total organic carbon at South Delta intakes-or-an “equivalent level of public health protection”

Record of Decision Commitments for DWQP

Source Control Agricultural

Drainage in the Delta and San Joaquin Valley

North Bay Aqueduct Control Runoff into

Conveyances Treatment

Technology

Operational Improvements

Public Health Effects

Bay Area Blending/Exchange

Alternative Sources for So. Calif.

Delta Drinking Water Council

Objectives - San Joaquin River, Delta and tributaries

Reduce pathogens, organic carbon, salinity, sediment, and nutrient loads through source control, treatment, water management, and appropriate land fallowing and/or land retirement.

Reduce pathogen loading from confined animal facility operations

Objectives - Entire Bay-Delta Solution Area

Reduce TOC through control of algae, aquatic weeds, agricultural runoff, urban runoff, and through watershed improvements.

Promote sediment reduction in agricultural, construction, and urban areas.

Proposal Solicitation Themes

Public Health ProtectionGood SciencePartnershipsCommunity InvolvementEnvironmental Justice

DWQP Selection Criteria

Relevance and Importance to CALFED Goals

Technical/Scientific Merit and FeasibilityMonitoring, Assessment, and Performance

MeasuresCoordination, Communication and

Technology TransferApplicant Qualifications and Project

Resources

more DWQP Selection Criteria

Costs and BenefitsLong-term Operations and Maintenance

(if applicable)Environmental Justice (If applicable)

References

DWQP web site (http://calfed.water.ca.gov/programs/drinking_water.html)

Programmatic Record of Decision (http://calfed.water.ca.gov/current/ROD.html)

CALFED Water Quality Program Plan

For Additional Information on the CALFED Drinking Water Quality Program

call John Andrew (916) 653-9715