ENVS 560/L Watershed Systems - Working
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This page is a working area for the ENVS 560 class.
Contents
- 1 Lists to keep up to date
- 2 Ideas for the future
- 3 Main new contribs 2015:
- 4 Minor new contribs 2015:
- 5 Updates worked on in 2015:
- 6 Links to pages students want Fred to look at soon
- 7 Links to what you mostly worked on (2015) and a very brief summary of what you did
- 8 Main new contribs 2014:
- 9 Minor new contribs 2014:
- 10 Updates worked on in 2014:
- 11 Leftover ideas after 2014:
- 12 Leftover ideas after 2013:
- 13 Disclaimer
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 the future
- Page on Incidental Take Permits (ITPs) otherwise known as 2081 permits
- Needs to be related to this page Common Permits Required for Restoration in the Central Coast Region, which might need a split or a name change to make it more general and less specific about 'restoration'
- List of major or exemplary ITPs in the region, perhaps?
- Pages on these organizations, and their activities in the region:
- A page on Water Supply Issues on the Former Fort Ord
- A page with a map of the service areas of all the water providers in the southern Monterey Bay Region, with links to internal pages on each of the providers (MCWD, Cal-Am, etc.)
- A page on the Regional Urban Water Augmentation Project (RUWAP)
- Develop the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) page to include a list of major points where CPUC has exerted influence on projects in the southern Monterey Monterey Bay region.
- The Special Status Species page needs a lot of work (it contains several meta-comments and blank sections; as at 2 Apr 2015)
Main new contribs 2015:
- Need a page on the failed Regional Water Project Phase 2: Amelia
- Need a page on the current Monterey Peninsula Water Project Phase 2: Dan
- Need a proper page for Marina Coast Water District (MCWD), covering the basic function of the agency, and also its relationship to LAFCO issues, and the failed and current water supply projects Phase 2: Alex
- Could add an issue page about how the MCWD boundary does not match the area it serves. This is a LAFCO issue. MCWD Home Page
- Need a set of pages on Special Districts: (1) the overall concept, (2) the main ones in the Central Coast Region Phase 2:Pat
- Add a set of pages on Public Finance in California's Central Coast Region: Phase 2: Sarah
- Add a page giving an overview of Recycled Water in the Central Coast Region
- ...
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, ...
- Create a page for Salinas Valley Water Project (SVWP) with link to separate page on Salinas River Diversion Facility (SRDF) Phase 2:Pat
- Basic page for the Castroville Seawater Intrusion Project (CSIP)
- Basic page for some common technical tools and how/when/where they have been used in the Central Coast Region, e.g.:
- A basic list of Solar Farms in the Central Coast Region - existing and proposed
..
Updates worked on in 2015:
- Could update status of Fort Ord HCP Phase 1: Dan
- 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 Environmental Consultants in the Central Coast Area e.g.: Phase 1: Amelia
- Update the desal page in general; and also make sure it has links to the pages on Regional Water Project and Monterey Peninsula Water ProjectPhase 1: Sarah
- Update these pages:
- Monterey Peninsula Groundwater Replenishment Project
- Salinas River Diversion Facility Phase 1: Pat
- Salinas River Channel Maintenance Program Phase 1: Pat
- Any pages with the facts behind this article on MCWRA's responsibility regarding water quality Phase 1: Alex
- ...
Links to pages students want Fred to look at soon
- Public Finance in California's Central Coast Region
- Special Status Species Within Fort Ord
- Marina Coast Water District (MCWD)
- List of Special Districts in the Monterey Bay Region
Links to what you mostly worked on (2015) and a very brief summary of what you did
- SF
- Phase 1: Edited/expanded Desalination in the Central Coast Region
- Phase 2: Wrote Public Finance in California's Central Coast Region page
- Phase 3:
- MCWD
- Add to List of Environmental Consultants working in the California Central Coast Region:
- Alta Planning & Design
- Dover-Kohl Partners
- Other planning firms like the above two?
- PM
- Phase 1: Edited/expanded Salinas River Stream Maintenance Program (SMP), created Salinas River Channel Maintenance Program redirect page, edited/expanded Salinas River Diversion Facility (SRDF)
- Phase 2: Wrote Special Districts page, Wrote List of Special Districts in the Monterey Bay Region
- Phase 3:
- Regional Water Project, Regional Urban Water Augmentation Project (RUWAP)?
- Update this list of CEQA projects on the Central Coast with links to recent project pages that already exist on the wiki (like MPWSP etc.))
- Add links to specific projects on CEQAnet from the individual CEQA project pages on the wiki, using the example I created on the MPWSP page where it says "SCH#" (look inside the link to see how it uses a "ProjectKey" that you can get fro the URL that CEQAnet gives you when you do a search)
- In the "Links" sections at the bottoms of each of the main CEQA "Project" pages, add a link to the list of CEQA projects on the Central Coast (if one is not already there)
- AO
- Phase 1: Edited/fixed dead links/added projects and environmental consulting firms to List of Environmental Consultants in the Central Coast Area
- Phase 2: Wrote Regional Water Project page and a brief description of Regional Urban Water Augmentation Project (RUWAP)
- Phase 3:
- DM
- Phase 1: Fixed the dead links, edited Fort Ord HCP, created page for Incidental Take Permits and Special Status Species Within Fort Ord
- Phase 2: Wrote Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project page
- Phase 3:
- Special Districts, List of Special Districts in the Monterey Bay Region
- Keep working on Special Status Species Within Fort Ord:
- Needs to list more than just 'Listed' (T&E) species, and also include at least some non-T&E species e.g. 'Watch-Listed' species - if not all of them, then some of them and an indication of "Other species not yet listed here".
- Needs to link to the SPAnimals.pdf list from March 2015 (on CDFW web site)
- Needs to link to any references that say things like "There are 35 Special Status Species on former Fort Ord"
- Needs to link to relevant pages containing words like "Species" or "Fort Ord" in their title.
- AH
- Phase 1: Edited/rewrote/fixed dead links in Monterey Coastkeeper page. Added info to the California Coastkeeper Alliance page.
- Phase 2: Wrote/working on Marina Coast Water District (MCWD) page.
- Phase 3:
- Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project
- Incidental Take Permits (ITPs) - add 'Links' section, and link to any pages in the wiki that relate to ITPs (do a search) e.g. the Fort Ord HCP. Maybe update the references so that the text that appears is an indication of what to expect if you clicked the link (as opposed to a garbled URL).
- Flesh these two pages out a tiny bit (mainly by adding a summary sentence or two; and maybe a map of the MRWPCA site showing both plants): Salinas Valley Reclamation Plant (SVRP) and Regional Treatment Plant (RTP)
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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