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2025 California Code
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 20 - CALIFORNIA COASTAL ACT
CHAPTER 3 - Coastal Resources Planning and Management Policies
ARTICLE 4 - Marine Environment
Section 30231.
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CA Pub Res Code § 30231 (2025)
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30231. The biological productivity and the quality of coastal waters, streams, wetlands, estuaries, and lakes appropriate to maintain optimum populations of marine organisms and for the protection of human health shall be maintained and, where feasible, restored through, among other means, minimizing adverse effects of waste water discharges and entrainment, controlling runoff, preventing depletion of ground water supplies and substantial interference with surface waterflow, encouraging waste water reclamation, maintaining natural vegetation buffer areas that protect riparian habitats, and minimizing alteration of natural streams.
(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1330.)
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