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DIVISION 7. WATER QUALITY 13000-16104›CHAPTER 4. Regional Water Quality Control 13200-13286.9›ARTICLE 5. Individual Disposal Systems 13280-13286.9

§ 13283

California Water Code · 2018-11 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

In reviewing any determination that discharge of waste from existing or new individual disposal systems should not be permitted, the state board shall include a preliminary review of possible alternatives necessary to achieve protection of water quality and present and future beneficial uses of water, and prevention of nuisance, pollution, and contamination, including, but not limited to, community collection and waste disposal systems which utilize subsurface disposal, and possible combinations of individual disposal systems, community collection and disposal systems which utilize subsurface disposal, and conventional treatment systems.

(Added by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1194.)

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