The Nevada County Sanitation District No. 1 is considering changes to how the County treats and disposes the wastewater of Lake of the Pines and surrounding communities. Improvements to the existing wastewater treatment system are necessitated by more stringent water quality criteria and wastewater discharge regulations by the State of California, which issues WWTP operation permits. The county encourages public input and comments throughout the planning process.

This site is your resource to obtain more information about the Lake of the Pines Wastewater Facilities Plan.

Meetings

Click here to visit the LOP Public Documents collection.

Documents

• FINAL LOP Wastewater Treatment Plant Facility Plan
  Full document with all tables, photos and graphics. 27MB PDF file.
  Text only version. 2.2MB MS Word file.

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• Notice of Preparation and Initial Study
  
  
• LOP WWTP FAQ Sheet #2 - December 2004


• County Counsel's Legal Opinion about Non-Compliance - issued 12/14/2004


• WWTP Public Meeting #3 presentation
  3MB Microsoft PowerPoint file.
  Click here to view this presentation in your browser (it's still large, but does not require the PowerPoint program).
  
• Correspondence with the State Water Resource Control Board: Letters to and from Supervisor Sue Horne and LOP FAQ Sheet.
  
• Lake of the Pines WWTP FAQ -- September 2004
  
• Federal and State Representatives
  
• WWTP Public Meeting #2 presentation (4.6Mb PDF file)
  
• WWTP Public Meeting #1 presentation (1Mb PDF file)
  
• NPDES Permitting 101 (a short course on the NPDES program, history and purpose) PDF document http://www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/101pape.pdf

Links

• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes
  
• California State Water Resources Control Board
  http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/
  
• SWCRB Water Quality Enforcement Policy
  http://www.swcrb.ca.gov/plnspols/docs/wqep.doc


• American's Clean Water Foundation http://www.acwf.org
  
• Lake of the Pines Association http://www.lop.org

Contacts

Project inquiries

Steven Stiles, Project Manager, County of Nevada, 530-265-1411 or lwwtreatmentplant@co.nevada.ca.us

Jim Graydon, Project Manager, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants, 530-891-9293 or jimgraydon@kennedyjenks.com

Media inquiries

Jennifer Harrison, Public Relations Consultant, 916-716-0636 or jennifer@JHarrisonPR.com