Clean Water Program:
Preserving and Enhancing the Environment

» Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District's Clean Water Program

The District's Clean Water Program works to protect and enhance local creeks and watersheds. Program activities include monitoring and watershed assessment, creek restoration, illicit discharge and connection inspection, and promoting water pollution best management practices in-house and to the community.

The Alameda County Public Works Agency's Clean Water Division is responsible for administering the District's Clean Water Program.

Division staff participate in zone-specific activities such as:

• Working to re-establish fish runs in the San Lorenzo Creek and Alameda Creek Watersheds,
• Partnering with the City of Oakland to implement the Clean Creeks Program, a program that focuses on the protection and enhancement of urban creeks, and,
• Working with the community to support watershed awareness and stewardship.

» Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program

The District is a co-permittee of the Alameda Countywide Clean Water Program, a mandated program of the federal Clean Water Act and California's State Water Resources Control Board.

Other co-permittees include the cities of Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Newark Oakland, Piedmont, Pleasanton, San Leandro, Union City plus the Alameda County Flood Control District, Zone 7, and county unincorporated areas. These 17 agencies are responsible for implementing, at the local level, pollution control standards for stormwater runoff to the San Francisco Bay consistent with the federal Clean Water Act. They also work together for public outreach and education.