El Dorado County Water Agency Announces Dissolution of El Dorado Water & Power Authority PLACERVILLE – The El Dorado County Water Agency (EDCWA) announced today that the El Dorado Water and Power Authority (EDWPA) is dissolving in order to more effectively manage all project efforts going forward. All functions of EDWPA will be […]
AUBURN, Calif. (February 20, 2019) — In the wake of Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) recent bankruptcy filing, the Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) is warning of potential threats to the water supply and reliability of nearly 200,000 Placer County residents should PG&E liquidate its Drum Spaulding Project. “Although there is no way to know at this early […]
LEGISLATIVE ANALYST’S OFFICE – February 13, 2019 Improving California’s Forest and Watershed Management PRESENTED TO: Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Resources and Transportation, Hon. Richard Bloom, Chair Assembly Committee on Natural Resources, Hon. Laura Friedman, Chair An Overview of California’s Forestlands Forests provide critical statewide benefits for water supply, climate change mitigation, and wildlife habitat. A changing climate […]
DWR Briefing on Outdoor Irrigation Regulations – March 15, 2019 February 4, 2019 | Edit Mountain Counties Water Resources Association will be holding a Department of Water Resources (DWR) briefing on March 15, 2019 on DWR’s implementation of the long-term Water Conservation Framework legislation, signed into law by Governor Brown in May, 2018 Register Here for MCWRA […]
Leaks created wildlife habitat and problems to fix By: Gus Thomson, Reporter/Columnist Auburn Journal A $500,000 program to mitigate for destruction of artificial habitat created by Placer County Water Agency canal leaks has ended. The Water Agency started working in the mid-2000s to fix ongoing leaks along its canals and confronted a problem of its own doing. The […]
Mountain Counties Water Resources Association will be holding a Department of Water Resources (DWR) Briefing on March 15, 2019 on DWR’s implementation of the long Water Conservation Framework Legislation, which was signed into law by Governor Brown in May 2018 Register Here for MCWRA Event – DWR Briefing Long-term Conservation Framework, What will be required, and DWR’s […]
At its January 25, 2019 meeting, the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association (MCWRA) Board of Directors endorsed the opposition by Jackson Valley Irrigation District (JVID) and others over concerns of the proposed fee increase by the Division of Safety of Dams. MCWRA Letter – Opposition to Annual Dam Fee Increase JVID January 7 2019 DSOD […]
