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Presentations and Articles

 

Upcoming

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Thousand Oaks)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Thousand Oaks)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (San Luis Obispo)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (San Luis Obispo)

  • CWEA 2026 (Wastewater Treatment Plant Compliance & Enforcement - Are You Ready?)

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2025​

  • CSAC Conference (The Future After San Francisco v. EPA)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Palm Desert)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Palm Desert)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Beverly Hills)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Beverly Hills)

  • 2025 Sewer and Stormwater Summit (Spills, Fixes & Fines)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Santa Cruz)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Santa Cruz)

  • CASQA Moderator and Panel Reviewer

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Pleasanton)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Pleasanton)

  • CEB and Sacramento County Bar Ass'n MCLE Course (Cleanup to Construction: Navigating Regional Water Boards in Contaminated Property Development)

  • CA CUPA Forum Presenter (Emerging Contaminants)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Sacramento)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Sacramento)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Carlsbad)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Carlsbad)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Orange County)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Orange County)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Ventura)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Ventura)

  • Sanitary Sewer WDR Workshop (Los Angeles)

  • Compliance & Enforcement Workshop (Los Angeles)

  • Environmental Law News, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2024) (Stormwater Management: Evolving to Advanced Climate Solutions)

  • State Water Board Training Academy (CEQA 101)

 

2024

  • 2024 Sewer and Stormwater Summit (Stormwater Solutions to the Climate Change Challenge)

  • County Counsels' Association of CA (Update on PFAs and Emerging Contaminants)

  • Yosemite Law Conference (Emerging Contaminants)

  • AWWEE 2024 Conference (Innovating for Impact: Women Leading Environmental Solutions)

  • CSRMA/CASA Conference (Sanitary Sewer Spills WDRs Compliance Update)

TAMARIN AUSTIN 
FOUNDER AND CEO

After a dozen years in private practice, litigating on behalf of water purveyors, and an additional decade with the State Water Resources Control Board Office of Chief Counsel, representing the regional water boards, I am pleased to launch Austin Clean Water Advisors, Inc., a professional law corporation designed to support the public and private sectors in their efforts to improve water quality. My experience in the clean water field includes a wide array of water quality issues such as permitting and compliance, policy development, basin planning, site cleanup, and some of the most consequential California water quality cases:

Private Practice Representing Water Purveyors

  • South Lake Tahoe and City of Santa Monica MTBE

  • City of Modesto PCE

  • DBCP and 1,1,1-TCP Cases

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State Water Board Office of Chief Counsel

  • Sweeney v. San Francisco Bay Water Board (who is a discharger)

  • Santa Clara Valley Water District v. San Francisco Bay Water Board ("discharge" includes sediment)

  • United Artists v. San Francisco Bay Water Board (former landlowner liability)

  • City of Thousand Oaks v. Los Angeles Water Board (NPDES toxicity provisions)

Tamarin and I were colleagues for almost a decade.  She is extremely conscientious, a creative thinker, and a staunch advocate for her clients.  Her knowledge of permitting, cleanup and compliance issues under the California Water Code and Clean Water Act are unparalleled.  She is an asset to any team.

Sophie Froelich, J.D.
Former Colleague

Ms. Austin was exceptional as my legal counsel through a very politically challenging process, and helped achieve my project’s best outcome.  She is tough, tenacious, articulate, and extremely well-versed in California and federal water quality laws.  

 

John Robertson, P.G., 
Former Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board Executive Officer

I have known Tamarin professionally for 24 years.  One of her strongest traits is that she is a good listener: she quickly understands the needs of the project and/or client.  Because she has spent over a decade in private practice and over a decade as a regulatory agency lawyer, Tamarin clearly understands and astutely applies California environmental law to her projects.  Tamarin is great to work with because she is positive, engaged and relentless.

Stephen M. Carlton,

CA Hydrogeologist 

©2023 by Austin Clean Water Advisors, Inc., a Professional Law Corporation.

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