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Contacts for California
Septic Systems
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Todd Thompson, P.E.
California State Water Resources Control Board
PO Box 100
Sacramento, CA 95812-0100
Phone: (916) 341-5518
Fax: (916) 341-5463
Email: tthompson@waterboards.ca.gov
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Kim Ward
Environmental Scientist
California State Water Resources Control Board / Division of Water Quality
1001 I St
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 341-5586
Fax: (916) 341-5463
Email: wardk@waterboards.ca.gov
Links for California
Funding Sources 
Training Centers
Demonstration Projects for California
- Title: California, Eastern San Francisco: Alternative Technologies, California
Description: This project is funded under a Water Quality Cooperative Agreement and was designed to evaluate sewer mining (see Mobile, AL) using decentralized alternative technologies to relieve the overloaded sewers of San Francisco and avoid its costly expansion.
Contact: Wendy Iwata
City and County of San Francisco, Public Utilities Commission
(415) 558-4022
- Title: California, Paradise: Management Program, California
Description: By creating of an onsite management zone, the town required operating permits for all new and existing systems; adopted design criteria, including special regulations for large systems and innovative systems; set up variance and enforcement procedures; and established a surface water monitoring program. Paradise also established a program for initial and periodic operational evaluation of all onsite systems by private evaluators.
Contact: "National Small Flows Clearinghouse
(800) 624-8301
Wes Greenwood
Butte County Health Department
(916) 872-6293."For More Information: http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/nodp/nodp_index.htm
- Title: California, WAWTTAR: Cost-estimating Program, California
Description: This project produced a tool to assist with planning and implementing water and wastewater treatment systems, including treatment systems incorporating wastewater effluent reuse. The cost-estimating program was designed to be used at the pre-feasibility step in facility planning or infrastructure investment. The program has an extensive database of water and wastewater alternative technologies and treatment processes (more than 200 and user expandable), onsite or decentralized waste and wastewater treatment processes and collection systems.
Contact: Brad Finny
Humboldt University
(707) 826- 3918For More Information: http://firehole.humboldt.edu/wawttar/wawttar.html
- Title: California: Model Code, California
Description: This project is funded under a Water Quality Cooperative Agreement and will promote the adoption and implementation of a statewide onsite or decentralized wastewater management program in California. This will be accomplished by developing a model Memorandum of Understanding between local and state agencies, preparing guidelines and funding options for local sanitary surveys, and establishing of a California onsite or decentralized systems Web site.
Contact: Justin Malan
CA Association of Environmental Health Administrators
(916) 944-7315