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Who will manage the Salton Sea restoration?

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 30, 2007 at 10:37 am

As the $47 million restoration bill moves through the legislature, there is concern over what group or agency will manage the restoration effort, projected to cost as much as 8.9 billion over the next 75 years. From MyDesert.com:

A proposed amendment to the bill would put project governance in the hands of a 19-member conservancy board, including “eight or 10 senior department heads” of state agencies such as the departments of Water Resources, Fish and Game, and Parks and Recreation, Salton Sea Authority executive director Rick Daniels said Friday.

Some members of the La Quinta-based Authority raised concerns the conservancy board as proposed would give Sacramento too much influence on the project, and minimize local interests. Authority members such as Riverside and Imperial county supervisors, the Imperial Irrigation District, the Coachella Valley Water District and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians would get only five of 19 votes.

“I think that is intolerable and arrogant and outrageous,” said Patricia “Corky” Larson, a Coachella Valley Water District board of directors and Salton Sea Authority member, Friday. “The Salton Sea is here, in our area,” added Imperial County Supervisor Gary Wyatt. “We have all of the impacts, but they want all of the control. I, for one, will not participate in that model.”

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July 30, 2007 · Filed Under Salton Sea

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