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The Monterey Plus Amendments to State Water Contracts: It’s Chinatown, Jake
California Water Impact Network (C-WIN) | February 1st, 2014
In the 1990s, ,ive of the extant 29 State Water Project contractors secretly colluded with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to change SWP policy, a move subsequently known as the Monterey Plus Amendments.
These changes caused major disruptions in Delta ecosystems and made water less accessible and much more expensive for most State Water Project customers, especially during droughts. Urban ratepayers bore the brunt of the burden, as they found out to their profound dismay in the drought that beleaguered the state from 2007 to 2009.
The Monterey Plus Amendments were concluded 17 years ago, but they are not established law, and are under current court challenge.
Keywords
Monterey amendments, State Water Project (SWP), water project operations