Item 07 - Sewer System Management Plan 2025 Update

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STATEWIDE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEMS GENERAL ORDER Table of Contents 1. Introduction.................................................................................................................... 4 2. Regulatory Coverage and Application Requirements.................................................... 5 2.1. Requirements for Continuation of Existing Regulatory Coverage ....................... 5 2.2. Requirements for New Regulatory Coverage...................................................... 5 2.3. Regulatory Coverage Transfer............................................................................ 7 3 0 5 Findings......................................................................................................................... 7 3.1. Legal Authorities................................................................................................. 7 3.2. General............................................................................................................. 11 3.3. Water Quality Control Plans, Policies and Resolutions ..................................... 14 3.4. California Environmental Quality Act................................................................. 16 3.5. State Water Board Funding Assistance for Compliance with Water Board Water QualityOrders................................................................................................... 16 3.6. Notification to Interested Parties....................................................................... 17 Prohibitions.................................................................................................................. 17 4.1 Discharge of Sewage from a Sanitary Sewer System ....................................... 17 4.2. Discharge of Sewage to Waters of the State ..................................................... 17 4.3. Discharge of Sewage Creating a Nuisance....................................................... 18 Specifications............................................................................................................... 18 5.1. Designation of a Legally Responsible Official ................................................... 18 5.2. Sewer System Management Plan Development and Implementation ............... 18 5.3. Certification of Sewer System Management Plan and Plan Updates ................ 19 5.4. Sewer System Management Plan Audits.......................................................... 19 5.5. Six -Year Sewer System Management Plan Update .......................................... 21 5.6. System Resilience............................................................................................. 22 5.7. Allocation of Resources.................................................................................... 22 5.8. Designation of Data Submitters......................................................................... 22 5.9. Reporting Certification....................................................................................... 22 5.10. System Capacity............................................................................................... 23 5.11. System Performance Analysis.......................................................................... 23 5.12. Spill Emergency Response Plan and Remedial Actions ................................... 23 5.13. Notification, Monitoring, Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements ............. 24 5.14. Electronic Sanitary Sewer System Service Area Boundary Map ....................... 26 5.15. Voluntary Reporting of Spills from Privately -Owned Sewer Laterals and/or Private Sanitary Sewer Systems................................................................................... 26 5.16. Voluntary Notification of Spills from Privately -Owned Laterals and/or Systems to the California Office of Emergency Services ..................................................... 27 5.17. Unintended Failure to Report............................................................................ 27 ORDER 2022-0103-DWQ December 6, 2022