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Water Quality Updates
By Chris McGlothlin | Director of Technical Services,
Western Agricultural Processors Association
East San Joaquin River
Watershed Proposed Order
Last year, we updated you on the State
Water Board’s Revised Order for the
East San Joaquin Water Quality Coalition.
This Revised Order was precedential,
and even though it focuses on one
region of the state, it would ultimately
set the standard for the entire state. The
original Order had several significant
inclusions such as requiring of Nitrogen
& Irrigation Management Plans to be
submitted directly to State Water Board
(SWB) staff as opposed to an aggregated
data submission made by third party
coalitions, requiring that yield specific
data be submitted to SWB staff, designating
all of California as High-Vulnerability
to groundwater quality, as
well as the requirement for landowner/
farmer identification information to be
made available to the public through a
website utilized by Regional Board staff
to monitor year by year results. Various
stakeholders and Associations voiced
opposition to the revised order at a series
of public workshops held in both Fresno
and Sacramento, and it seems as if some
of the comments have had a significant
effect.
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