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C-WIN: The Monterey Amendments to State Water Project contracts

Posted by: Maven on January 2, 2010 at 7:56 am

CalifAqueductFrom the California Water Impact Network:

“Drought from 1987 to 1992, and again in 1994, financial crisis among state water contractors, and the prospect of severe regulation of Delta exports by the State Water Project (SWP) provoked the project’s most serious crisis.

In 1994 four of its contractors, including the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Kern County Water Agency which together control about 75 percent of State Water Project allocations, met in secret in Monterey with representatives of Paramount Farming (a private corporation) to attempt to resolve their water shortage.

The result was the Monterey Amendments to the State Water Project contracts.

These contracts lay out the contractors’ and state’s obligations concerning delivery of water under both surplus and drought conditions. … “

Find out more about the Monterey Amendments from the California Water Impact Network by clicking here.

January 2, 2010 · Filed Under State Water Project (DWR)

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