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Revision as of 11:40, 24 March 2015
This page is a working area for the ENVS 560 class.
Contents
Lists to keep up to date
Don't forget to make sure all major 'issue' and 'summary' pages are listed in one of these two lists:
- Watershed Issues on the Central Coast of California
- Summaries of Environmental Topics on the Central Coast of California
Ideas for 2015
- MCWD boundary does not match the area it serves. LAFCO issue. [1]
- Desal general update
- CalAm desal project
- GWR project
- SVWP update
- Public financing mechanisms
- Grants
- Bond measures
- Special Districts
- Benefit Assessments - SVWP, MPRPD
- etc.
Main new contribs 2015:
- Need a page on the failed Regional Water Project
- Need a page on the current Monterey Peninsula Water Project
- Could add an issue page about how the MCWD boundary does not match the area it serves. This is a LAFCO issue. [2]
- ...
Minor new contribs 2015:
- Could add a general page on Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs), listing as an example the Fort Ord Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP)
- Need a kind of disambiguation page listing all the major water "projects" like RWP, MPWP, SRDP, ...
..
Updates worked on in 2015:
- Could update status of Fort Ord HCP
- Add projects to big list of CEQA projects e.g.:
- Monterey Peninsula Groundwater Replenishment Project
- Veteran's Cemetery IS/MND
- Add firms to list of consultants operating on Central Coast e.g.:
- Update the desal page to have links to the pages on Regional Water Project and Monterey Peninsula Water Project
- ...
Main new contribs 2014:
- GW Replenishment project
- Common Permits Required for Restoration in the Central Coast
- Regulatory Agencies in the Central Coast
- Desal
- Salinas River Channel Maintenance Program
- Special Status Species of the Central Coast
- What are prominent SS species in our region
- CNDDB
- Fort Ord HCP
- Water supply for underserved, marginalized communities of the Salinas Valley
Minor new contribs 2014:
- Aquifer
- Watershed
- California American Water Company (CalAm)
- City of Salinas Treatment Plant
- Monterey Peninsula Water Management District (MPWMD)
- Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency
- City of Marina
- City of King
- The Molera Wetland
- Endangered species
- Natural Community Conservation Planning Act
- Salinas River Diversion Facility
- California Endangered Species Act
- Templates
- Monterey-Pacific Grove ASBS Stormwater Management Project
- Seaside Basin Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)
- Blanco Drain
- MRWPCA Regional Treatment Plant
Updates worked on in 2014:
- TMDLs in the Monterey Bay Region of California
- Approaches to TMDL Development and Implementation in the Monterey Bay Area
- Los Padres Reservoir Capacity Issues
- Sudden Oak Death (SOD)
- Urban storm water management in the City of Santa Cruz
- Steelhead Management in the Monterey Bay Region
- Steelhead Management in the Salinas Watershed
- Steelhead
- Riparian habitats as wildlife corridors in the California Central Coast Region
- Carmel River Watershed
- Lower Salinas River Watershed
- Gabilan Range
- Basin-Indians Fire Erosion and Debris Flows
Leftover ideas after 2014:
- Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP)
- Who they are
- What they do
- Who are members
- Student chapter
- Recent events
- PG Diversion project & DEIR
- Hollister Hills - site summary
- Page on all the water providers in the Monterey Bay Region - the biggies (like Cal Am), and all the teeny weird ones you never heard of (like Seaside Muni). Needs a good set of maps.
- Other:
- Water Supply for the Cal Am service area (focus on current impediments to the proposed portfolio approach)
- Water metering as a means of understanding agricultural water use.
- Understanding "water policy cycles"---Water supply and Policies that are viable in drought years, but untenable in years of plenty (new big dams in CA, etc).
- Impacts of the new Salinas River channel maintenance program.
- Movement toward public takeover of Cal Am water supply system.
- Is there a physical inventory of extant groundwater resources to fuel existing (or proposed) Fort Ord reuse plans. This could be a close scrutiny of the Monterey Downs EIR.
- How does the planned desal impact Fort Ord reuse?
- Potential water use projects that would secure the now tenuous MCWRA rights to about 168,000 af/yr of Salinas Valley water.
- When new subdivisions are permitted, they must demonstrate a sustainable water supply. Apparently, that approach is flawed, since many areas are in overdraft. What are the minimum criteria for demonstrating "sustainable" water supply and why does it fail in many cases?
Leftover ideas after 2013:
- CEQA
- CEQA approaches to each of the main CEQA areas:
- Visual / aesthetic
- Transport
- Wetlands
- etc.
- Firms that do CEQA, tabulated by project, role, specialty, client etc.
- CEQA approaches to each of the main CEQA areas:
- Land use planning in Central Coast
- County General Plan
- County Long-Range Development Plan
- Marina General Plan
- Seaside General Plan
- AMBAG Metropolitan Transportation Plan
- TAMC Regional Transportation Plan
- Former CA-led County Redevelopment Agencies and new 'Successor' agencies.
- Fort Ord
- BRAC / Fort Ord Cleanup
- History of consistency determinations made with respect to Fort Ord Reuse Plan
- Viewshed policy (county critical viewshed, approaches taken in CEQA projects)
- Water rights - How do water rights work?
- e.g. for projects in CEQA right now (Ferrini, Downs)
- Drainage studies
- e.g. Canyon del Rey and current contract to Balance & Whitson
- Ag Waiver & TMDLs:
- Can always use more updating with new developments
- Stakeholder pages:
- Marina Coast Water District, e.g. its role in Fort Ord re-use
- MPWMD, e.g. its role in Canyon del Rey drainage study update
- TAMC
- AMBAG
- Specific Watersheds
- Wildlife:
- Wildlife habitat corridor planning - State-level efforts, Regional effort led by CalTrans, Local survey led by BSLT, ...
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