Water Quality Control Board

The water quality control board dataset represents two regional board jurisdictions within the County of Sonoma.  One in the north called the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board based in Santa Rosa, and one in the south called the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board based out of Oakland.  The Water Quality Control Board is one of the nine statewide regional boards tasked to enforce the California Porter Cologne Water Quality Control Act.

Each regional board has delegated its authority to regulate onsite waste water disposal systems to Sonoma County PRMD Well and Septic Division.

The parent organization is the California Water Resources Control Board located in Sacramento. 

Related Resources:
For more information go to http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/

Since the GIS data was developed for planning purposes and use in publication of maps and/or database creation, the data is for illustrative purpose only and is not suitable for parcel specific decision making. 

Therefore, the GIS data presented herein are approximations and further land development determination is at the discretion of the PRMD planning staff which may require a parcel specific site review (to draw parcel specific conclusions).

Creation methodology & resources:
1) refer to Data Quality - Attribute Accuracy tab for historical dataset modifications by ActiveMap version release number
2) for ActiveMap Data Capture June 2010 [ver. 2.0.2], no edits needed to rectify dataset to AM_PARCEL 04/01/2010 (no modification to borders of changed parcels & validated topology)

Note:
On September 14, 2007, PRMD received California Water Resources Control Board's release approval on accuracy of feature class/layer data and per public inquiry utilizing the geographical Internet application, ActiveMap.  As stated, "Calwater is a PUBLIC data set.  There should be NO RESTRICTIONS on it's use or distribution." Calwater contact: Chris Keithley (Chris.Keithley@fire.ca.gov).