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Salinity Management Strategy Report

Richard Howitt, Daniel Cozad | July 29th, 2008


The mission of the Central Valley Salinity Policy Group is to work closely, in a collaborative manner to create a comprehensive Central Valley Salinity Management Plan. This mission is presented at all meetings and forms the basis for the efforts of the group. This report and its plans and strategies are intended to further the initial efforts of the group in fulfilling its mission.

The purpose of this report is to document the strategies discussed and proposed to provide an overall roadmap developing efforts that lead to solving salinity issues in the Central Valley Region. While these efforts are just beginning and will take a long time to come to fruition many of them need to be started now to be successful. The document collects materials and information prepared with the committees and group participants as they worked during most of 2007 and early 2008. The report attempts to capture this progress and provide summary information that would be useful to current and future participants, the Regional Board and Salinity Policy Group members. Within this document no specific regulatory or policy decisions related to salinity have been made by the Salinity Policy Group or Waterboards.

Changes to the outline of this document were made to include efforts that were undertaken to assist the groups in planning and working on issues important to the group over the contract term. Additionally, some technical information and integration of existing technical studies is omitted from this report as several of these studies are ongoing and will not be completed in time to report their findings in this report.

Keywords

Central Valley, salinity