Imperial Irrigation District gets a little water credited towards last year’s overuse; also gives $25k to the Salton Sea Authority
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 23, 2008 at 6:32 amFirst, the Salton Sea. From the Imperial Valley Press Online:
Being a part of the conversation of what happens to the Salton Sea is worth another $25,000 to the Imperial Irrigation District board. The board voted 3-2 Tuesday to give additional money to the Salton Sea Authority, an agency some say is failing.
Directors Mike Abatti and John Pierre Menvielle voted against the money that is adding to the $75,000 already given to the SSA this year by IID. “I don’t think it’s responsible to continue funding something without a position (on the sea),” Abatti said.
The IID board has not taken a position on the restoration plans for the Salton Sea and is awaiting the environmental impact report.
But a majority of the board including Director James Hanks, who voted to give more money to the SSA, said the IID needs to take a stand. “There are huge questions about air mitigation and who’s responsible for that,” Hanks said. “It’s time to give clear direction to this board. If we don’t have a voice on the Salton Sea Authority, what voice would we have?”
Read the full text of this story from the Imperial Valley Press Online by clicking here.
From KXO Radio, news that the IID has been credited with 4000 acre-feet of water against the 17,000 acre-feet that the IID overused last year:
King told the IID Board of Directors Tuesday he had requested the Bureau Of Reclamation allow the IID to be credited with the unused apportionment of Metropolitan Water District and Nevada 2005 entitlement. He said since the IID was the only District to request the unused apportionments, the Bureau agreed, but said they had to split the Nevada apportionment with the state of Arizona. King said that means the IID was given 4,000 acre-feet of water to be used in the payback of last years over-run.
That means only 13,000 acre-feet to go. Full text from KXO by clicking here.
I wonder what the “unused apportionment of Metropolitan Water District” water is. With MWD buying ag water and saying that even with conservation, they will be reaching into their reserves this year, how can there be any “unused apportionment”?
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