Zarian to Chair Water Quality Board
Glendale Mayor Larry Zarian has been elected chairman of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, the lead agency for monitoring water quality and pollution in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, officials said this week.
Zarian was promoted Monday by the eight other board members from vice chairman to chairman. He was appointed to the board in October, 1986, by former Gov. George Deukmejian, who reappointed him in October, said Robert Ghirelli, the board’s executive officer.
The board monitors water quality and pollution, issues waste discharge permits, and enforces state and federal clean water laws. Its jurisdiction is the most heavily populated of California’s nine regional water quality boards, Ghirelli said.
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