Press Releases & Announcements
Next Regional Board Meeting
- 11-12 October 2023 - Field Tour and Board Meeting
- Wednesday, 11 October 2023 - Upper Pit River Field Tour
This tour will view operations in a cross section of the Upper Pit River watershed, near Fall River Mills, CA. Non-waterboard staff will need to provide their own transportation. If you are interested in attending this tour, you must RSVP via email to agenda5@waterboards.ca.gov on or before October 6 at 12:00 p.m. indicating the names of attendees. Water Board staff will provide an agenda with tour times, meeting locations, and driving directions.
- Thursday, 12 October 2023 - Board Meeting
(In-person and via Video and Teleconference)
- Wednesday, 11 October 2023 - Upper Pit River Field Tour
- Ex Parte Communications
Other Announcements
- Previous Years' Announcements
- California Storm Water Toolbox
Storm water pollution reduction tools for residents, community and civic groups, educators, municipalities and public agencies. - Current Public Notices
- Enforcement Announcements
2023 … a continuation of the announcements from the Central Valley Regional Water Boards home page.
COVID-19 – Compliance with Water Boards’ Requirements (03/20/2020)
Previous Years' Announcements
2022
2021
- Settlement reached with sewer district that had hundreds of raw sewage spills (12/29/2021)
- DNA testing for E. coli in American River traces most causes to wildlife, not humans (11/16/2021)
- Food Safety Project White Paper: No elevated risk from food grown with oil field produced water (09/10/2021)
- Pistachio processing facility in Tulare County will pay $221,440 fine for odor violations
Numerous residents complained of stench from wastewater pond (06/09/2021) - $2.5 million settlement reached for Mule Creek State Prison violations of Clean Water Act (03/29/2021)
- City of Colfax agrees to settlement for Bunch Creek sewage spill (03/26/2021)
- 100,000 Central Valley residents impacted by contaminated drinking water will soon see interim solutions (03/15/2021)
Short-term and permanent fixes for drinking water contaminated with nitrates - Sumiden Wire Co. agrees to settlement in industrial wastewater discharge case (03/11/2021)
- Expert Panel: Food Grown with Produced Water Safe for Human Consumption (02/17/2021)
- Shasta County property owner fined $25,000 for water quality violations at cannabis grow site (01/29/2021)
- Drinking water quality impacts from North Complex fires found to be minimal (01/28/2021)
2020
- Agenda Package for CV-SALTS Revisions to the Basin Plan Amendments; Agenda Item No. 8; Central Valley Board Hearing 10 December 2020 (11/25/20)
- Shasta County agrees to settlement for sewage spill and violations at Cottonwood Wastewater Treatment Plant (11/20/20)
- Butte County Property Owner Fined $193,088 for Water Quality Violations at Cannabis Grow Site (11/09/20)
- CV-SALTS Aviso de Oportunidad Para Comentar y de Audiencia Pública (Spanish CV-SALTS
Public Hearing Notice) Respecto a Enmiendas a Planes de Control de Calidad del Agua para Incorporar Modificaciones al Programa de Control de Nitrato y Sal (10/23/20) - Water Quality Coordinating Committee (WQCC) Meeting, October 27-28, 2020 (10/16/20)
- City of Mount Shasta agrees to settlement for sewage spills and violations at wastewater treatment plant - Penalties will go towards preventing future spills and effluent violations (10/15/20)
- CV-SALTS Public Comment Period and Public Hearing - For proposed Basin Plan Amendments revising the recently adopted Salt and Nitrate Control Program (9/4/20)
- ALERT to Fresno and Central Valley media - Individuals going door-to-door fraudulently impersonating State Water Board’s drinking water specialists in the Fresno area (8/26/20)
- Recreational advisory issued at Lake Isabella due to harmful algal bloom - Visitors should avoid water contact at many locations on lake (8/19/20)
- Foul odors from Tulare County pistachio processing plant trigger cease and desist order (8/14/20)
- City of Galt agrees to six-figure settlement in sewage spill case (8/11/20)
- Lewis Land Developers to Settle Stormwater Violations at Placer County Construction Project (6/15/20)
- Two Central Valley Dairy Operators Cited for Violating Waste Management Practices (6/10/20)
- Diamond B Dairy Violations Posed Threat to Groundwater Quality (5/21/20)
- New tools available to help Bovine Operations complete their annual reports due 1 July 2020 (5/5/20)
- Implementation of Executive Order N-42-20: Guidelines and Best Practices for Water and Wastewater Systems (4/30/20)
- Service of Process During the COVID-19 Emergency (4/20/20)
- Dairyman Agrees to $108,608 Settlement for Dumping Dairy Wastewater on Cropland (1/29/20)
- Roman Catholic Bishop of Sacramento to Settle in Stormwater Violations at Placer County Construction Project (1/6/20)
