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Meeting Announcement - February 17, 2004
Featured topics:
- Bureau of Reclamation Grant Opportunities, Water 2025 Initiative, and Program Partnerships in Southern California
- Update on New State Legislation
- Proposed Legislation Clarifying Terminology for Emerging Contaminants
- Proposition 50 - Chapter 8 (Integrated Regional Water Management) - What's in it for Southern California?
The Southern California Water Dialogue will meet on Tuesday, February 17th from noon - 3 pm at Metropolitan Water District of Southern California headquarters, 700 N. Alameda, Los Angeles, (213) 217-6000.
Lunch will be served at 11:30 am (RSVP to [email protected] if you plan on joining us for lunch).
| Agenda |
| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Introductions, agenda adjustments, and reports |
| 12:15 - 1:15 |
Update on new state legislation - Kathy Cole, Legislative Representative, MWD
Prop 50 Chapter 8, Integrated Regional Water Management Funding Process
Legislative proposal clarifying water quality terminology for emerging contaminants - Martha Davis, Inland Empire Utilities Agency |
| 1:15 - 1:45 |
Bureau of Reclamation presentation - Bill Steele, Southern California Area Manager |
| 1:45 - 2:30 |
Question and Answer |
| 2:30 |
Announcements |
Meeting Information
Bureau of Reclamation - Bill Steele, Bureau of Reclamation Southern California Area Manager, will speak about grant funding available through the Department of Interior's new Water 2025 Initiative. The President's 2005 budget seeks funding of $21 million for conservation, water-saving technologies for irrigation systems, desalination research, and water-marketing projects that will help avoid future water supply crises. In the current year, there is $4 million available for Water 2025 Challenge Grant funding and $3 million for water improvement technology. Additional grant funding opportunities will be available from the new Water Conservation Field Services Program for urban and agricultural conservation.
Mr. Steele will elaborate on the many partnerships underway in the region including the Chino Basin Restoration Project, Title XVI Program, Native American Affairs, Santa Margarita Watershed Project, Lake Arrowhead drought program, City of Long Beach Desalination Pilot Demonstration Project, San Diego River Restoration Project, and Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Water Augmentation Study. In addition, the Bureau of Reclamation is seeking partners for a industrial recirculation systems planning study to promote the industrial use of recycled water.
Legislative Proposal on Water Quality Terminology - Over the past year, Southern California water quality experts have been meeting to develop language that will improve the current law regarding terminology used for regulating emerging contaminants. Legislation is proposed to clarify and strengthen the requirements for providing governing body notification and for guidance from the DHS to reduce public exposure to listed emerging contaminants. This new language will improve the understanding of what water supply agencies are expected to do if a listed contaminant is discovered and eliminate the confusion between state and federal action levels. At the notification level, the appropriate governing body or water system must be notified; at the response level additional steps are recommended to reduce public exposure to below the response level. These changes do not negate the fundamental premise that notification and response levels are still non-regulatory advisory levels that enable DHS to have a flexible mechanism for dealing with contaminants that have not yet undergone the rigorous process for establishment of standards in accordance with state law.
Next meeting - March 16, 2004 cancelled
Kathy F. Caldwell
Water Dialogue Coordinator
Southern California Regional Coordinator, Bay-Delta Authority
Sr. Water Resources Manager
McGuire Environmental Consultants, Inc.
1919 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 200
Santa Monica, CA 90404
310 829 1441 phone
310 453 7621 direct phone
310 829 2155 fax
Past Meeting Notices
• May 25, 2005
• March 2, 2005
• February 17, 2005
• January 20, 2005
• September 21, 2004
• July 20, 2004
• May 18, 2004
• April 2004
• No meeting held in March 2004.
• February 2004
• January 2004
• December 2003
• November 2003
• October 21, 2003
• September 16, 2003
• August 2003
• July 15, 2003
• June 17, 2003
• May 20, 2003
• April 15, 2003
• March 18, 2003
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Presentations from past meetings
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July 26, 2006
Props 1E and 84 November 2006 Ballot |
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July 26, 2006
Susan J Varty.
Proposition 84 and Integrated Regional Water Management |
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October 26, 2005
California’s Water Market: Overall Trends and Southern California’s Role |
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September 28, 2005
California Water Transfers 101
Dialogue (Kern County Water District)
Central Valley Water Transfers
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April 27, 2005
Dorothy Green, California Water Impact Network
Toward a Sustainable Water Future |
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March 22, 2005
Fran Spivy-Weber
Southern California Drinking Water Quality Planning
Jared W. Huffman, Senior Attorney and San Joaquin River Restoration Project Manager, Natural Resources Defense Council
Restoring the San Joaquin River: Update and Perspectives from the Environmental and Fishing Community
Greg Wilkinson, Attorney with Best, Best & Krieger,
representing the Friant Water Users
Rewatering the San Joaquin
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March 2, 2005
Patrick Wright
CALFED Bay-Delta Program
Randall Neudeck
Financing the CALFED Bay-Delta Program
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