On Monday, May 18, managers, Board members and attorneys from the Mounties Counties water purveyor membership convened at the Calaveras County Water District or via conference call for an action oriented workshop to discuss the recent water conservation regulations, and concern of the prospect of pre-1914 and riparian water right curtailments. In the morning part […]
The limited water resource in California has Mountain Counties concerned about the prospect and process by which the State Water Board may look to curtail most or all Pre-1914 and Riparian water rights in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Watershed. MCWRA supports the State Water Board’s public involvement and appreciates the opportunity to provide comments […]
The long history of California is embattled with disputes over water diversions for export to other regions. The US Army ran out the Paiutes from the Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra Nevada region that destroyed the Paiutes quality of life and largely destroyed the environment. The battle over the O’Shaughnessy Dam that flooded the […]
Mountain Counties Water Resources Association Watershed Tour *** King Fire Media Tour *** Sponsored by: the California Forestry Association Tour Partners: Georgetown Divide Public Utility District, Placer County Water Agency, Sierra Pacific Industries, USDA Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy
Nevada Irrigation District Drought Briefing On Thursday, May, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. at the Grass Valley Veterans Memorial Building, 255 South Auburn Street, Grass Valley Nevada Irrigation District officials will present the latest information on: water storage precipitation drought contingency planning state’s water right curtailments conservation targets long-range water storage options for the future […]
AUBURN, Calif – On April 23, Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) Director of Resource Development, Andy Fecko, testified before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Federal Lands in a hearing titled, “The Devastating Impacts of Wildland Fires and the Need to Better Manage our Overgrown, Fire Prone National Forests.” Restoring health to forest […]
