Water Quality Report Card- Pesticides in the Palo Verde Outfall Drain and Lagoon

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Palo Verde Outfall Drain (PVOD) and Lagoon is located in Palo Verde Valley and
Mesa (approximately 131,000 acres of agricultural land) in Imperial and
Riverside counties.  PVOD and Lagoon are impaired
by the legacy pesticide toxaphene, and listed on the Clean Water Act Section
303(d) List.  Discharges from irrigated
agriculture were identified as the primary source of toxaphene. </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'><a href='http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/coloradoriver/water_issues/programs/irrigated_lands/docs/palo_verde/0047pvwaiver.pdf' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
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Waiver</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
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EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'> (Agricultural Order) of </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'>Waste Discharge
Requirements, adopted by the Regional Water Board in September 2012. The
Responsible Parties (RPs) for complying with the </span><span style='font-size:
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Order</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;
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mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA'> are agricultural and drain
maintenance dischargers.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;
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to: a) implement management practices to effectively control discharges of
waste and meet water quality standards; b) monitor and report consistent with
the </span><span style='font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;'><a href='http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/water_issues/programs/nps/docs/plans_policies/nps_iepolicy.pdf' rel='nofollow ugc'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
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and Enforcement of the Non-Point Source Control Program</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;
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minor-latin'> Policy</span></a></span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;'>; and c) pay state fees. The Palo Verde Outfall
Coalition (Coalition) <span style='letter-spacing:-.05pt'>was formed</span> to
assist member RPs in complying with </span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;'>Agricultural Order</span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;'> requirements. </span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; color: black;'>The </span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;'>Agricultural Order</span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;'> the expired on September 20, 2017 </span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; color: black;'>did not require monitoring of toxaphene in water nor fish tissue.</span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;'> The Regional Water Board
plans to replace it with a General Order of Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs)
that will require monitoring</span><span style='font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; color: black;'> toxaphene in water and
fish tissue.</span><br /></span></div>