2024 Newsletter
| 2024 Newsletter |
The January 2023 CVDRMP newsletter includes information about the Annual Membership Meeting scheduled for 1 p.m. March 6, and key updates about program activities related to Nitrate Management Zones.
About CVDRMP
The Central Valley Dairy Representative Monitoring Program is a not-for-profit group of more than 1,200 Central Valley dairies and ranches, organized and overseen by directors elected from its membership. The group's purpose is to reduce regulatory costs for members by administering representative groundwater monitoring programs for its members. Membership in this voluntary program substitutes for individual monitoring requirements currently in regulation.
New program for Bovine Feeding Operations
After nearly 10 years of operating a successful, voluntary representative groundwater monitoring program for Central Valley dairies, the Central Valley Dairy Representative Monitoring Program (CVDRMP) is now opening membership in our organization to non-dairy cattle operators.
We have created a new membership category for confined bovine feeding operations (confined feedlots and ranches) regulated under the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (Regional Board’s) General Order R5-2017-0058, “WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS GENERAL ORDER FOR CONFINED BOVINE FEEDING OPERATIONS” (Bovine Order).
If you happen to be regulated under the Bovine Order, you are required to submit a “workplan for well installation for [an] individual groundwater monitoring network” by July 1, 2020. However, you may also fulfill this requirement by joining a representative monitoring program or RMP. CVDRMP is the only organization offering such a program for bovine operations. While membership in our organization is completely voluntary, compliance with the Bovine Order is not, so all “full-coverage operations” under the order must either join an RMP or submit their own individual well monitoring plan.
We have created a new membership category for confined bovine feeding operations (confined feedlots and ranches) regulated under the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (Regional Board’s) General Order R5-2017-0058, “WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS GENERAL ORDER FOR CONFINED BOVINE FEEDING OPERATIONS” (Bovine Order).
If you happen to be regulated under the Bovine Order, you are required to submit a “workplan for well installation for [an] individual groundwater monitoring network” by July 1, 2020. However, you may also fulfill this requirement by joining a representative monitoring program or RMP. CVDRMP is the only organization offering such a program for bovine operations. While membership in our organization is completely voluntary, compliance with the Bovine Order is not, so all “full-coverage operations” under the order must either join an RMP or submit their own individual well monitoring plan.
Why Join the Bovine RMP?
The primary reason for joining an RMP is to save time and costs. Dairies participating in the RMP over the past decade are estimated to have saved at least two-thirds of costs compared to installing individual groundwater monitoring wells. This also eliminates the need for individual operations to collect samples from monitoring wells, analyze data, submit annual groundwater monitoring reports, and develop their own alternative practices if water quality objectives are not met in groundwater. Importantly, our program only covers groundwater monitoring requirements and your operation will remain responsible with complying with all other aspects of the Bovine Order.