North Coast Regional Water Board Performance Summary1
Percentage of Targets Met
Area: 19443 square miles Budget: $10,103,842 Staff: 81.8
Permitting 33% Inspections 100% Others 25%
1Regional Board performance summary statistics show the percentage of targets met.
 
Total Maximum Daily Load and Basin Planning
Program Budget: $2,157,023 Program Staff: 13.80
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
Basin Plan Amendments Adopted 1 1 100%
Pollutant/Water Body Combinations Addressed 11 2 18%
Total Maximum Daily Loads Adopted 2 0 0%
NPDES Wastewater
Program Budget: $365,880 Program Staff: 1.80
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
Major Individual Permits Issued or Renewed 4 4 100%
Major Individual Facilities Inspected 4 7 175%
Minor Individual Permits Issued or Renewed 5 3 60%
Minor Individual Facilities Inspected 7 12 171%
Minor General Facilities Inspected 0 0  
No Regional Board Considerations Provided
NPDES Stormwater
Program Budget: $619,208 Program Staff: 4.00
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
Municipal (Phase I/II Inspections) 5 7 140%
Construction Inspections 55 67 122%
Industrial Inspections 60 103 172%
No Regional Board Considerations Provided
Waste Discharge to Land - Wastewater
Program Budget: $984,743 Program Staff: 8.60
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
Waste Discharge to Land Inspections 39 36 92%
Individual Waste Discharge Requirements Updated 3 0 0%
No Regional Board Considerations Provided
Land Disposal
Program Budget: $347,405 Program Staff: 2.20
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
Landfill Individual Permits Updated 0 0  
Landfill Inspections 13 34 262%
All Other Individual Permits Updated 0 0  
All Other Inspections 0 0  
No Regional Board Considerations Provided
Confined Animal Facilities (WDR, NPDES, etc.)
Program Budget: $0 Program Staff: 0.00
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
Confined Animal Facilities Inspections 26 22 85%
No Regional Board Considerations Provided
Timber Harvest (Forestry)
Program Budget: $2,251,550 Program Staff: 17.10
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
Timber Harvest Inspections 175 220 126%
No Regional Board Considerations Provided
Enforcement
Program Budget: $164,799 Program Staff: 1.00
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
Class 1 Priority Violations will Result in Formal Enforcement or an Investigative Order Pursuant to Water Code Section 13267 within 18 Months of Discovery 100% 10% 10%
Facilities with Over $12,000 in MMPs (4 or More Violations) Not Assessed within 18 Months of Accrual 0 6        
In R1, MMPs can be time-consuming because 70% of our communities are considered “small and disadvantaged” or “small and severely disadvantaged” and qualify for compliance projects. We spend considerable amount of staff time working with the communities to come up with compliance projects, apply for additional grants or loans needed to improve treatment plants’ long-term compliance and to protect the human health and the environment. However, a comparison of our number over target this year to that from last year shows a significant improvement. Where we had 15+ cases with MMPs more than 18 months old last year, this year we have only 6, and for all 6 of these facilities we have enforcement efforts under development or underway.
Cleanup
Program Budget: $516,175 Program Staff: 3.40
  Target Actual Achieved % of Targets Met
New Department of Defense Sites Into Active Remediation 0 0  
New Cleanup Sites Into Active Remediation 5 3 60%
Cleanup Sites Closed 10 6 60%
New Underground Storage Tank Sites Into Active Remediation 6 4 67%
Underground Storage Tank Sites Projected Closed 25 23 92%
No Regional Board Considerations Provided