Arrangement and Description

Physical Description: 49 file folders.

Arranged chronologically by date of meeting.

The Research Consulting Board of the State Water Quality Control Board managed the research and technical projects mandated by the Board. The records contained in this series include correspondence, meeting notes, summary reports, report drafts, consultant contracts, meeting memoranda, rosters, meeting agendas, invoices, proposed budgets, project progress reports, editorial correspondence, research proposal abstracts, research project outlines, and contract correspondence.

Subjects covered in the meeting files focus on water quality control research projects administered by the Board, including marine waste disposal, submarine outfall, red tide, and the current meter investigation.

Physical Description: 145 file folders.

Arranged alphabetically by project title; no specific arrangement within the project.

From its inception, the Water Quality Control Board sponsored research projects in order to obtain scientific data pertinent to the development of Board water pollution policies. The records in the research project files include meeting notes, contracts, invoices, quarterly and monthly progress reports, final reports, correspondence, report proofs, project abstracts, project outlines, photographs, board resolutions, legislation summaries, charts, graphs, research proposals, charts of accounts, field work summaries, interdepartmental communications, maps, and diagrams.

The subjects covered in the research project files relate to the ten water quality control management projects administered by the Board between 1951 and 1963. These projects cover the following topics: algae oxidation of ponds, compilation of sewerage enabling acts, underground travel of pollution, water reclamation, compilation of water quality control criteria, pulp and paper, affects of water discharge on kelp, bioassay and tracer techniques, the development of an interagency system for water pollution control, and a two-part study of submarine outfall focusing on an oceanographic study and a study of the continental shelf.