Contact:     Gene Mancebo, General Manager, Amador Water Agency, 209-223-3018 (Sutter Creek)  A long-term plan to provide more reliable, high quality drinking water to homes in Lake Camanche Village moved forward when AWA Directors adopted environmental documents for the Camanche Area Regional Water Supply Project (Phase II). Lake Camanche Village currently relies on a troubled well […]

On May 25,2017 the Delta Stewardship Council held a hearing to consider amendments on conveyance and storage.  The hearing lasted about 6 hours.  The informational only hearing included a staff report, two panels, and public comment to weigh in on the draft amendment. The Council is proposing to amend the Delta Plan to promote options […]

  Brown, Elissa,  Funding Development Coordinator Elissa.Brown@sierranevada.ca.gov   FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES NEWSLETTER June – July 2017 Upcoming Grants that Might be of Interest: The California Conservation Innovation Grant program (due June 7) provides funds to demonstrate innovative conservation approaches and technologies on private agricultural lands. Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Grants (due June 21) fund the acquisition […]

If you need assistance with an upcoming project or program, please consider MCWRA Associate Members in your search. MCWRA Associate Members have underwritten our symposiums, events, tours, and briefings.  Since 2011, MCWRA has received 56 sponsorships for over $56,400.00.  This funding has enabled the Association to provide quality educations programs for the mountain counties region. […]

By Jim Abercrombie, El Dorado Irrigation District General Manager As I write this column, EID workers are in the thick of widespread emergency repairs. The emergency repairs, resulting from damages caused during the storms of January/February, are some of the most significant we’ve experienced in recent memory. Some of those repairs are to canal and […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ross Branch, Public Affairs Manager, Placer County Water Agency  (530) 823-1937 (office), (530) 863-3130 (cell), rbranch@pcwa.net AUBURN, Calif. (May 5, 2017) — At the May 4 meeting of the Placer County Water Agency (PCWA), the Board of Directors approved an agreement to join neighboring entities in creation of the West Placer Groundwater Sustainability Agency (WPGSA). Once […]

BY: Einar Maisch General Manager, PCWA Last week, the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee in Sacramento held a hearing on several bills that represented two different visions for future water use in California. One vision, embodied in AB 968 (Rubio) and supported by Placer County Water Agency, would establish new long-term water use efficiency […]