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Monterey Amendments would give away state water resources, says the Planning & Conservation League

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 28, 2007 at 7:21 am

From the California Progress Report:

Despite the recent crisis in the Delta and the Governor’s push for new dams, last week the Department of Water Resources (DWR) proposed to give away the largest water storage facility in the state and to eliminate drought safeguards for urban areas in California.

DWR’s draft decision, revealed in the Monterey Plus Environmental Impact Report (EIR), would require the State to adopt amendments to the State Water Project (SWP) contract, called the “the Monterey Amendments,” negotiated in secret by DWR in 1994. The original behind-closed-doors deal was successfully challenged in a lawsuit by the Planning and Conservation League, the Citizens Planning Association of Santa Barbara, and Plumas County Flood Control and Water Conservation District (Planning and Conservation League v. Department of Water Resources (2000) 83 Cal.App.3d). While DWR has been allowed to operate under the Monterey Amendments provisionally since 1995, the PCL lawsuit forced DWR to analyze the impacts of the amendments and to decide whether or not permanently to adopt the Monterey Amendments based on that analysis.

If permanently adopted, the Monterey Amendments would fundamentally change how the State Water Project operates.

To read the rest of this article from Gary Patton of the Planning & Conservation League, as posted on the California Progress Report, click here.

October 28, 2007 · Filed Under Monterey Agreements

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