The County Department of Agriculture, Weights and Measures regulates agricultural facilities that are designated as high priority commercial facilities. These include:
Nurseries and Greenhouses
Agricultural Pest Control Businesses
Structural Pest Control Businesses
Golf Courses
Cemeteries
Equestrian Facilities1
[1] The Dept. of Agriculture, Weights and Measures initiated inspections of these facilities in July 2005 due to the large number of complaints and referrals the department received as a result of the heavy rains during the winter of 2004.
Equestrian Information
Equestrian Best Management Practices (pdf)
Equestrian Facilities Brochure (pdf)
Farming Information
Ag Water Quality Informational Pamphlet (pdf)
Agricultural Runoff Training Guidelines (pdf)
Gude entrenamiento para los Negocios Comerciales Agrlas (pdf)
Sedimentation From Agricultural Operations (pdf)
La Sedimentacion las Operaciones Agricolas (pdf)
Ques y Quedo Hacer? (pdf)
Forms
Employee Stormwater Training Documentation Form (pdf)
Registration Form for Agriculture Water Quality (pdf)
Inspection Forms
Pest Control Business/Structural Pest Control Business AWM 1404 (pdf)
Landscape AWM 1403 (pdf)
Nursery/Greenhouses AWM 1402 (pdf)
County Ordinances
In 2001, the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board adopted Order 2001-01, which requires the County and other land use jurisdictions in the region to reduce contaminants in local waterways.
Watershed Protection, Stormwater Management, & Discharge Control Ordinance
County of San Diego Stormwater Standards Manual