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Coachella Valley Water District’s chief engineer Steve Robbins goes with the flow

Posted by: Maven on April 26, 2010 at 6:32 am

From MyDesert.com:

“Steve Robbins has served since 2002 as general manager and chief engineer for the Coachella Valley Water District, a public agency established in 1918 that serves 1,000 square miles in Riverside, Imperial and San Diego counties. It has more than 500 employees and an annual operating budget of nearly $220 million.

Robbins is president of the State Water Contractors, sits on the board of California Municipal Utilities Association and on the regional board of the Association of California Water Agencies.

He played a key role in negotiations that lead to the Quantification Settlement Agreement, which helped resolve longstanding Colorado River issues.

A UCLA graduate, Robbins joined the district as a domestic water engineer in 1978. He was in the private sector for about nine years and as assistant director of engineering. … “

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April 26, 2010 · Filed Under Coachella Valley

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One Response to “Coachella Valley Water District’s chief engineer Steve Robbins goes with the flow”

  1. neil on May 24th, 2010 8:58 pm

    If the Coachella Valley County Water District Engineering Department were given the resources of the Navy, including the use of Alvin–the human occupied deep submersible that can go miles deep under the sea–how would you stop the BP oil gusher?

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