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If your holiday food preparations end up generating more cooking grease than usual, or you have unused or unwanted cooking oil, don't poor it down the drain or dump it into the stormdrains! Go to Too Toxic To Trash page for proper disposal of cooking oil and grease. While there, take a look at how to properly dispose of household hazardous waste, such as chemicals, fertilizers, and automotive fluids! Clean water starts with you! Teachers! The Banana Slug String Band is conducting free school assemblies entitled "We All Live Upstream" in San Mateo County elementary schools. Rock Steady Science is presenting "Water Pollution Prevention and Your Car" in High Schools around the county. Also check our teachers page for resources and ideas related to pollution prevention as you plan your new school year! 2011 Fall P3 Newsletter Now Available! Watershed Groups Guide Find San Mateo County groups working on watershed stewardship projects. Volunteer opportunities and events listed. Spanish-language Stormwater Brochure available Usted es la Solución para Prevenir la Contaminación del Agua que va a los Desagües
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ABOUT Video Interview about SMCWPPP airing now on PenTV26 Water pollution degrades surface waters making them unsafe for drinking, fishing, swimming, and other activities. The San Mateo Countywide Water Pollution Prevention Program (SMCWPPP) was established in 1990 to reduce the pollution carried by stormwater into local creeks, the San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean. The program is a partnership of the City/County Association of Governments (C/CAG), each incorporated city and town in the county, and the County of San Mateo, which share a common National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. The Federal Clean Water Act and the California Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act require that large urban areas discharging stormwater into the San Francisco Bay or the Pacific Ocean have an NPDES permit to prevent harmful pollutants from being dumped or washed by stormwater runoff, into the stormwater system, then discharged into local waterbodies. San Mateo, Santa Clara, Alameda, Marin, Sonoma, Solano, San Francisco, Fairfield/Suisun, Vallejo and Contra Costa Counties have each obtained these permits. Certain types of businesses must also apply for individual coverage, by filing a Notice of Intent (NOI) with the State Water Resources Control Board Stormwater Management Plan (pdf) outlines the priorities, key elements, strategies, and evaluation methods for San Mateo Countywide Water Pollution Prevention Program. The comprehensive Program includes pollution reduction activities for construction sites, industrial sites, illegal discharges and illicit connections, new development, and municipal operations. The program also includes a public education effort, target pollutant reduction strategy, and monitoring program. Program Highlights
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