“Our team of career professionals did a great job using the best available science to develop new operational plans for the coordinated operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project. The governor and attorney general just launched a ship into a sea of unpredictable administrative and legal challenges regarding the most complex water [...]
CCM Board Chairman Matt Fisher spoke at the press conference regarding California water accessibility with President Donald Trump. It was at this press conference that the President signed a Presidential Memorandum supporting more water development and delivery in California. You can see further details of the Memorandum in the press release below. “These biological opinions [...]
BAKERSFIELD, CA - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt joined President Donald Trump and other federal officials in Bakersfield, California for the signing of a Presidential Memorandum supporting more water development and delivery in California. "President Trump gave the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce clear direction to move forward [...]
February 4, 2020 - Today, Congressman Kevin McCarthy applauded the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s (BOR) Fiscal Year 2020 Distribution of Additional Funding plan. The plan details how BOR will spend funds appropriated by Congress in the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116-94), which McCarthy supported. This includes $11 million for subsidence repair work on the [...]
On January 3, 2020, California Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food & Agriculture released the draft water resilience portfolio. The draft is to fulfill Governor Newsom’s executive order on water resilience. There are four major components to the draft; maintain and diversify water supplies, protect and enhance natural [...]
Today, the Newsom Administration rejected the Federal Government’s water proposal and released its draft environmental impact report for “fish protective management” of the State Water Project and water flows through the Delta. According to the Administration, the proposed plan “reflects the state’s assessment that operating rules recently proposed by federal agencies are not scientifically adequate [...]
SACRAMENTO, October 21, 2019 – The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is now accepting applications for the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP), a competitive grant program that incentivizes farmers to invest in irrigation water and energy efficiency. Agricultural operations can apply for up to $100,000 for projects that involve improvements to [...]
The Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released the new Biological Opinions on October 21, 2019. Below is the information released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “The Service finalized our biological opinion on the coordinated operations of the CVP/SWP on October 21, 2019. The Service carefully evaluated the impact of [...]
On Wednesday, October 17, 2019, the State Water Resources Control Board voted to approve the Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term Sustainability, otherwise known as CV-SALTS. Approval of the plan was conditioned upon several revisions. The most notable of these revisions accelerated the timeline to achieve the goal of reducing salts and nitrates in groundwater [...]
The Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley submitted formal recommendations for the Water Resilience Portfolio (WRP) in response to Governor Newsom’s Executive Order (EO) N-10-19. The purpose of the Blueprint coalition is to develop a comprehensive plan to close the 1.5 to 2.5 million acre-foot gap that exists today. The group also highlighted the [...]