This Informational release provided by:  MCWRA Lobbyist Reeb Government Relations, Raquel Ayala, J.D.  raquelayala@comcast.net Last Thursday, May 14, Governor Newsom released the State’s Budget May Revise for Fiscal Year 2020-2021. The Governor began his press conference by reminiscing on the economic health the state enjoyed at the beginning of this year which had allowed him to […]

In a letter to the Honorable Senator Mitchell and Assemblymember Ting, MCWRA wrote to express support for the funding levels proposed by Governor Newsom in its January Budget proposal for Wildfire Prevention efforts in the state. The State Budget proposed in January included: $120 million General Fund ($150 million ongoing) and 677 positions, phased in […]

The Calaveras County Water District (CCWD) was notified Tuesday April 28 that it had been awarded a $2.1 million grant to replace five, aging redwood water storage tanks with steel, ignition-resistant tanks along the upper Highway 4 Corridor. The grant was awarded to CCWD by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and it will cover […]

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released on April 24, 2020 the Draft Recommended Funding List for the Mountain Counties funding area for the Proposition 1 Round 1 Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Implementation Grant Solicitation. Approximately $4.5 million in grant funding is being made available for implementation projects with approximately $1.8 million being made available for projects […]

The one-of-a-kind French Meadows partnership restored forest health to 1,066 acres of critical headwaters in the first year of the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project implementation, reducing stand density by over 30% and harvesting over 3 million board feet of timber and 4,200 green tons of biomass. Thus, resulting in net greenhouse gas savings of […]

A federal court’s decision striking down a critical Keystone XL permit has broad implications beyond the embattled oil pipeline. The Wednesday ruling from the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana tossed a nationwide permit the Army Corps of Engineers uses to approve water crossings for projects all over the country, concluding the agency hadn’t properly […]

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 American Water Works Association (AWWA) AWWA will host a FREEwebinar this Friday, March 20th titled UTILITY ACTIONS TO SUSTAIN OPERATIONS DURING COVID-19.  Friday, March 20, 2020 @ 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Pacific Daylight Time)  Note: Webinar is Friday, March 20, 2020 @ 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time Venue-Online-Denver, CO This webinar is designed to […]

The Tuolumne Utilities District (TUD) and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) have entered into exclusive negotiations regarding a transfer of assets of the Phoenix Hydroelectric Project from PG&E to TUD ownership. Under the proposed agreement, TUD would acquire the Phoenix Powerhouse, the Main Tuolumne Canal, the pre- and post-1914 water rights, the Lyons Dam […]

AUBURN, Calif. (March 3, 2020) — Against the backdrop of Folsom Dam, Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) executed a landmark water contract with the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) at a signing ceremony on February 28. The new contract, which annually allocates up to 35,000 acre-feet of Central Valley Project (CVP) water to PCWA, runs […]