Santa Cruz.
Unenforceable, unmeasurable, and unattainable standards for nonpoint nitrates were the precedent under which the County intends to enforce similarly bogus standards for nonpoint silt. Santa Cruz was one of two complicit jurisdictions that instituted compliance to a court ruling on a sweetheart suit between NRDC (remember them?) and the EPA. Nonpoint silt is dirt in runoff, otherwise known as mud. Any disturbance of dirt makes mud, including none :-) They will are using an illegal interpretation of Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act to protect "water quality" for fish. I have a long document by a Polish IUCN attorney now employed by a foundation in the US on how to do it.Its real purpose is to control land use. I have a long document by a Polish IUCN attorney now employed by a foundation in the US on how to do it. Characteristically, the consequences of the plan will be MAJOR landslides.
Nothing succeeds like failure.
It's all there (including what to do about it) in Part IV, Chapter 4, & Part V, Chapter 2 of a certain book.