MCWRA Letter to California Departments of Water Resources and Fish & Wildlife
Mountain Counties Water Resources Association (MCWRA) encouraging regional interests inclusion in Voluntary Settlement Agreement conversation.
November 13, 2018
To: Karla Nemeth, Director, California Department of Water Resources and Chuck Bonham, Director, California Department of Fish & Wildlife
Thank you for attending the State Water Resources Control Board hearing on November 7, 2018. I was very pleased to hear both of you talk about the tributaries to the Delta, but more specifically the need for inclusion and restoration in the mountain counties region as part of your comprehensive approach that will hopefully find its way into the voluntary settlement agreements. I applaud your efforts, along with Governor Brown, Governor elect Newsom, and the appeal from those working on settlement agreements to persuade the Water Board to postpone acting on a misguided staff proposal. I strongly support Water Board Member Dee Dee D’Adamo’s call for “balancing the needs of fish with the needs of cities and the people who live in them – people whose lives and jobs are dependent on that water. We must also consider the needs of agriculture, and the beneficial use of water to grow crops.” This too should apply to the mountain counties area….
