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  Gates and Barriers in the Delta

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  Gates and Barriers in the Delta

  | April 8, 2013...

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  While previous Delta Watermaster reports have dealt mainly with water rights and water supply issues, Water Code section 85230 (d) specifies that reports...

  While previous Delta Watermaster reports have dealt mainly with water rights and water supply issues, Water Code section 85230 (d) specifies that reports shall also be submitted on water quality issues and conveyance operations. The use of barriers and gates in the Delta addresses both of these topics.

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  Collaborative Versus Technocratic Policymaking: California’s Statewide Water Plan

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  Collaborative Versus Technocratic Policymaking: California’s Statewide Water Plan

  CSUS Center for Collaborative Policy | January 1, 2008...

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  In 2001, the California Department of Water Resources embarked on one of the most elaborate public involvement processes in state history. Over the...

  In 2001, the California Department of Water Resources embarked on one of the most elaborate public involvement processes in state history. Over the course of five years and 200 meetings, a 65-member Stakeholder Advisory Committee and a 350-member Extended Review Forum worked with agency staff to produce a new water plan for California. The process consumed some 23,000 person-hours in face-to-face discussions alone.

  Although the state had been updating its water plan approximately every five years since 1957, the 2005 process produced a dramatically different type of document. For one thing, the 2005 Update is conceptually more accurate, complex, nuanced, and comprehensive. The policy recommendations described in its strategic plan address a broader range of issues—including climate change and environmental justice—yet they engendered somewhat less political controversy than the policies identified in the 1998 Update. Moreover, there is evidence that the collaborative process used in 2001-2005 catalyzed improvements in the relationships among California's historically warring water stakeholders, and also sparked the beginnings of positive cultural changes within certain quarters of DWR.This research report authored by Ariel Ambruster catalogues the outcomes of the 2005 Water Plan Update process and those of its predecessor, the 1998 Update.

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  Recommendations for Sustainable Groundwater Management

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  Recommendations for Sustainable Groundwater Management

  California Water Foundation | April 5, 2014...

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  The results of this effort are organized and presented as follows in this Report: • A review of the Dialogue process that provides...

  The results of this effort are organized and presented as follows in this Report:

  • A review of the Dialogue process that provides additional details about participating
  stakeholders and their perspectives;
  • A description of the background and challenges for California’s groundwater management and
  current efforts to achieve measurable progress toward sustainable management;
  • A set of key Findings; and
  • A package of seven policy Recommendations intended to lead to a new state policy for meaningful, measurable improvement in groundwater management within realistic timeframes.

  The Recommendations in this report reflect the best judgments of CWF about what is needed to achieve sustainable groundwater management while keeping decision making primarily at local and regional levels. CWF remains committed to a constructive public discussion about this critical issue and, ultimately, to meaningful legislative and policy actions.

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  Water Conveyance Systems in California: Historic Context Development and Evaluation Procedures

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  Water Conveyance Systems in California: Historic Context Development and Evaluation Procedures

  State of California | December 1, 2000...

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  This study began as an attempt to develop a statewide thematic approach to surveying the ditches and canals which are a commonly encountered,...

  This study began as an attempt to develop a statewide thematic approach to surveying the ditches and canals which are a commonly encountered, but previously little studied, property type in California. In the past, canals were not always recognized as a type of cultural resource that might need study, and furthermore, although highways and other transportation facilities often intersect artificial waterways, projects that merely cross linear resources typically have little potential to affect them. As a result, structures such as canals, railroads, or roads that were bridged by a transportation project were rarely included in cultural resource studies.

  Now there is increased awareness that canals and other water conveyance facilities can be historically significant, and that when projects do have the potential to affect them, they need to be studied systematically.  However, important water conveyance systems are frequently extensive and sometimes quite complex, while transportation project effects on them are typically limited to a small segment of the entire property. Under these circumstances, developing a basic historical context would allow researchers to work from a baseline of existing knowledge, thus helping to achieve a suitable balance between the need for adequate information and expenditure of a reasonable level of effort.

  Because of California’s unique combination of natural resources, climate, topography, history, and development patterns, the state has a variety and number of water conveyance systems possessed by few if any other states.  Consequently, little guidance has been developed at a national or regional level, leaving California to develop its own statewide historic context and methodology. Sufficient research has now been conducted on California’s water conveyance systems to provide this historic context and survey methodology for the appropriate consideration of water conveyance systems, especially the frequently encountered canals and ditches, in order to take into account the effect of transportation projects on historic water conveyance facilities.

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