Transfers
From: Dale Strange, Visalia
Times-Delta
Another dry year.
Mark Watte, vice-president of the
board of the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District, the local agency that
oversees the surface and groundwater resources of the Kaweah River Basin,
pointed something out at the board's July meeting: Water is more valuable than
it's ever been. It's a whole new era.
Coalition response...Water transfers involve willing-buyers and willing-sellers. Transfers
include those who have an available supply of water and are willing to sell it
and those who are willing to pay the price to purchase the water and have it
transported. These transfers are usually for a short period of time and must
protect the area of origin, including groundwater and the environment. Past
water transfers have proven beneficial to water users throughout California and
when farm water users are involved, it means that farmers are able to continue
growing the food supply that consumers expect to find in their local grocery
stores.
Water Supply
From: Dale Yurong, KFSN-30 TV
The drought and pumping
restrictions in the Delta have some Valley farmers making very painful cropping
decisions.
From: Sara Sandrik, KFSN-30
TV
The San Luis Reservoir in Merced
County is extremely low right now -- and could be on track for the lowest level
in its history by the end of the summer. Officials say the lack of water will
have a significant impact on agriculture across the Valley's Westside.
Delta
From: Maven, Maven's Notebook
Executive Officer Chris Knopp
updated the Council on the progress made in establishing the Delta Plan
Interagency Implementation Committee; staff is also recommending that the
Council select a committee chair at today's meeting.
The Delta Reform Act directs the
Council to establish a committee of agencies responsible for implementing the
Plan. The point of the committee is to get things moving in the Delta,
said Mr. Knopp, so the primary role of the committee is to address individual
problems that are stymieing progress by creating a workgroup to develop
recommendations. "The Implementation Committee will then have a
clear range of options to select from, and ideally workable solutions will be
part of the process, the idea being by focusing energy on specific issues, we
can make something happen in a collaborative way among all the agencies, and do
it in a very timely way."
Rivers
From: Jim Johnson, Monterey
Herald
A settlement between the Monterey
County Water Resources Agency and state water board officials has postponed,
and likely averted, a hearing on possible revocation of a 55-year-old Salinas
River water use permit.
On Friday, the state Water
Resources Control Board announced the mid-August hearing had been postponed
indefinitely after the board's Division of Water Rights prosecution team
notified two board members earlier in the week that an agreement had been
reached with the county on the river permit. The state water board had
indicated it would consider revoking the permit, which allows the county water
agency to divert up to 168,500 acre feet of water per year from the river, due
to a lack of progress on projects designed to use the water.
BDCP
From: Nancy Vogel, DWR
The integrated water management
efforts described in our last blog cannot offset entirely the loss of
reliability associated with a significant source of water for much of the
state: the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The unpredictability of
Delta supplies puts a large portion of California's economy and population at
risk.
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