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Water agencies to rekindle shared planning?

Posted by: Maven on February 23, 2010 at 6:08 am

From the Union Democrat:

“A who’s-who collection of officials from Highway 4 corridor water management agencies and local governments gathered Thursday in an attempt to cut through old animosities and find areas for collaboration.

The meeting was both a nod to growing state and federal pressure for regional water management solutions and the renewing of a collaboration effort halted when California’s budget crisis put a freeze on the grant money funding the work.

The group, seated in intimate proximity around a phalanx of tables in a small conference room at the Utica Power Authority headquarters, included one or two board members, and in some cases staff too, from Calaveras County Water District, Utica Power Authority, Union Public Utility District and Murphys Sanitary District.

There were also two representatives each from the Angels Camp City Council and the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors.

A couple of representatives of the county’s agricultural community were also present: Ironstone vineyards owner John Kautz and Prospect 772 Wines vineyard manager Mark Skenfield, who said he came on behalf of the Calaveras County Agricultural Coalition.

But the biggest presence in the small room was the litany of past battles and former grudges between those present, almost all now settled, but contributing tension nonetheless. … “

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February 23, 2010 · Filed Under San Joaquin Valley

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