Resources

Fees

• Master Fee Resolution
• Fee Waiver Procedures
• Fee Waiver Request Form

 Department of Consumer Affairs - License Lookup

• Architects
• Contractors
• Engineers and Professional Land Surveyors
• Geologists and Geophysicists

Development Review

• Guidance Documents:
  • Stormwater Technical Guide for Low Impact Development
    
    
• Land Use Regulations:
  • Monterey County Code Chapter 16.08 - Grading Regulations
  • Monterey County Code Chapter 16.12 - Erosion Control Regulations
  • Monterey County Code Chapter 16.14 - Stormwater Management Regulations
    
    
• Rainfall Information:
  • 85th Percentile Rainfall Depths Map
  • 95th Percentile Rainfall Depths Map
  • NOAA Atlas 14
    
    
• Maps:
  • NPDES Municipal General Permit Boundary Map
  • ASBS Watershed Protection Area Map

Erosion Control

• Erosion Control Plan Waiver Request Form 

 

• Guidance Documents:
  • Hillslope Farming Runoff Management Practices Guide
• Soils:
• Soil Survey of Monterey County
• CalTRANS Soil and Rock Logging, Classification, and Presentation Manual
• CalTRANS Foundation Report Preparation for Bridges
• CalTRANS Guidelines for preparing Geotechnical Design Reports
• CalTRANS Corrosion Guidelines

 

Geology

• Geologic Hazards:
  • Faults and Earthquakes
    • Faults and Earthquakes in California (CGS Note 31)
    • Fault Rupture Hazard Zones in California (CGS Special Publication 42)
    • Guidelines for Evaluating the Hazard of Surface Rupture (CGS Note 49)
  • Landslides and Liquefaction
    • Guidelines for Evaluating and Mitigating Seismic Hazards in California (CGS Special Publication 117A)
    • USGS Emergency Assessment of Post-Fire Debris-Flow Hazards
  • Tsunami
    • NOAA Tsunami Program
    • CalOES Tsunami Program
    • Tsunami Inundation Maps
      
      
• Hydrogeology:
  • California's Groundwater -DWR Bulletin 118
    
    
• Legislation:
  • Alquist Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Act (1972)
  • Seismic Hazards Mapping Act (1990)
    
    
• Organizations: 
  • Association of Environmental & Engineering Geologists
  • California Geological Survey
  • California State Mining & Geology Board
  • US Geological Survey

Stormwater Management

• Structural Stormwater Control 
  • PR1 Checklist

• Guidance Documents:
  • Monterey County Guidance Document
  • Monterey County Guidance Document Appendix
  • Monterey County Guidance Document Apporoval by RWB Executive Officer
    
    
• Maps
  
  • NPDES Muncipal General Permit Boundary Map
  • Monterey County Drainage System Map - North
  • Monterey County Drainage System Map - South
  • 85th Percentile Rainfall Depths Map
  • 95th Percentile Rainfall Depths Map
  • ASBS Map Index
  • ASBS Watershed Protection Area Map-North Carmel
  • ASBS Watershed Protection Area Map-Carmel Point
  • ASBS Watershed Protection Area Map-Carmel Meadows
  • MS4 Drainage System Map-North
  • MS4 Drainage System Map-South
    
    
•  Regulations:
  • Clean Water Act
  • Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act
  • NPDES Municipal General Permit
  • Post-Construction Requirements
  • Monterey County Code Chapter 16.14 - Stormwater Regulations
    
    
• Organization
  • Monterey Regional Stormwater Management Group
  • California Stormwater Quality Association
    
    
• Plans
  • ASBS Compliance Plan
  • Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination Plan
  • Spill Response Plan
  • Wasteload Allocation Attainment Plan (WAAP) - Lower Salinas River
  • Wasteload Allocation Attainment Plan (WAAP) - Pajaro River
    
    
• Other                    
  • MS4 Annual Report (2015)
  • PCR Annual Report (2015)
  • Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Summary Monitoring Report 2000-2014 (2015)
  • ASBS Water Quality Monitoring Program Report (2015)
  • Pajaro River Watershed Fecal coliform TMDL
  • Pajaro River Waste Load Allocation Attainment Plan (WAAP)
  • Lower Salinas River Watershed Fecal Coliform TMDL
  • Lower Salinas River Waste Load Allocation Attainment Plan (WAAP)
  • Lower Salinas River Watershed Nitrogen Compounds and Orthophosphate TMDL