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**    To manage the water resources of California in cooperation with other agencies, to benefit the State's people, and to protect, restore, and enhance the natural and human environments.
 
**    To manage the water resources of California in cooperation with other agencies, to benefit the State's people, and to protect, restore, and enhance the natural and human environments.
 
Strategic Planning Goals
 
Strategic Planning Goals
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**    Goal 1 - Develop and assess strategies for managing the State’s water resources, including development of the California Water Plan Update.
 +
**    Goal 2 - Plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain the State Water Project to achieve maximum flexibility, safety, and reliability.
 +
**    Goal 3 - Protect and improve the water resources and dependent ecosystems of statewide significance, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Estuary.
 +
**    Goal 4 - Protect lives and infrastructure as they relate to dams, floods, droughts, watersheds impacted by fire and disasters, and assist in other emergencies.
 +
**    Goal 5 - Provide policy direction and legislative guidance on water and energy issues and educate the public on the importance, hazards, and efficient use of water.
 +
**    Goal 6 - Support local planning and integrated regional water management through technical and financial assistance.
 +
**    Goal 7 - Perform efficiently all statutory, legal, and fiduciary responsibilities regarding management of State long-term power contracts and servicing of power revenue bonds.
 +
**    Goal 8 - Provide professional, cost-effective, and timely services in support of DWR’s programs, consistent with governmental regulatory and policy requirements.
  
Goal 1 - Develop and assess strategies for managing the State’s water resources, including development of the California Water Plan Update.
+
*    Goal 1: Develop and assess strategies for managing the State’s water resources, including development of the California Water Plan Update.
 +
**    DWR is responsible for promoting California’s general welfare by ensuring beneficial water use and development statewide. To guide development and management of the State’s water resources, DWR is responsible for preparing the California Water Plan Update (Water Code section 10000 et seq.).
 +
**    The Plan is updated every 5 years to address challenges currently facing California, such as satisfying the needs of the State’s growing population (projected to reach about 53 million by 2030), quantifying water demands and supplies based on sound information, and identifying management strategies to diversify the regional portfolio assets.
 +
**    DWR is authorized to conduct other planning functions, including those related to urban and agricultural water use, fish and wildlife, recreation, groundwater, agricultural drainage, and water quality. It also investigates and identifies water management strategies, such as conservation, water recycling, water transfers, conjunctive management, and structural measures.
  
Goal 2 - Plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain the State Water Project to achieve maximum flexibility, safety, and reliability.
+
*    Goal 2: Plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain the State Water Project to achieve maximum flexibility, safety, and reliability.
 +
**    DWR operates California’s State Water Project (SWP), the largest State-built multipurpose project in the United States.
 +
**    The SWP spans more than 600 miles from Northern California to Southern California, includes 32 storage facilities, 17 pumping plants, 3 pumping-generating plants, 5 hydroelectric power plants, and approximately 693 miles of canals and pipelines, including the newest section, the East Branch Extension located in Southern California.
 +
**    DWR operates and maintains the SWP and delivers, on average, 2.4 million acre-feet of water per year to the 29 water agencies who are repaying the cost, plus interest, of financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining the SWP storage and conveyance facilities. Through the SWP, DWR supplies good quality water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational uses and for protecting and enhancing fish and wildlife.
  
Goal 3 - Protect and improve the water resources and dependent ecosystems of statewide significance, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Estuary.
+
*    Goal 3: Protect and improve the water resources and dependent ecosystems of statewide significance, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Estuary.
 +
**    The ability of DWR to meet many of its goals depends on its ability to achieve and maintain a healthy ecosystem in the Bay-Delta Estuary. Maintaining such an ecosystem requires understanding, collaboration, and reasonable agreement among many partners to resolve Bay-Delta issues.
 +
**    The DWR collaborates and coordinates with the California Bay-Delta Authority and California Bay-Delta Program (CALFED) agencies to carry out its responsibilities of controlling salinity, providing water for use in the Delta, planning long-term solutions for environmental and water use problems, and administering Delta levee maintenance reimbursements and special flood control projects (Water Code section 12200).
  
Goal 4 - Protect lives and infrastructure as they relate to dams, floods, droughts, watersheds impacted by fire and disasters, and assist in other emergencies.
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*    Goal 4: Protect lives and infrastructure as they relate to dams, floods, droughts, watersheds impacted by fire and disasters, and assist in other emergencies. DWR has the responsibility of protecting public health, life, and property by regulating the safety of dams, providing flood protection, and responding to emergencies. DWR meets these responsibilities through the following activities:
 +
**    Continually supervising design, construction, enlargement, alteration, removal, operation, and maintenance of more than 1,200 jurisdictional dams;
 +
**    Encouraging preventive floodplain management practices; regulating activities along Central Valley floodways;
 +
**    Maintaining and operating specified Central Valley flood control facilities;
 +
**    Cooperating in flood control planning and facility development;
 +
**    Maintaining the State-Federal Flood Operations Center and the Eureka Flood Center to provide flood advisory information to other agencies and the public; and
 +
**    Cooperating and coordinating in flood emergency activities and other emergencies. (Water Code section 6000 et seq.)
  
Goal 5 - Provide policy direction and legislative guidance on water and energy issues and educate the public on the importance, hazards, and efficient use of water.
+
*    Goal 5: Provide policy direction and legislative guidance on water and energy issues and educate the public on the importance, hazards, and efficient use of water.
 +
**    Educating the public on the importance of water, its efficient use, and its dangers, as well as collecting, analyzing, and distributing water-related information to the general public and to the scientific, technical, educational, and water management communities are important DWR responsibilities.
  
Goal 6 - Support local planning and integrated regional water management through technical and financial assistance.
+
*    Goal 6: Support local planning and integrated regional water management through technical and financial assistance.
 +
**    DWR provides technical and financial assistance to local agencies; cooperates with local agencies, groups, and individuals on water resources investigations; supports watershed and river restoration programs; encourages water conservation, explores conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water, provides planning and advice on water recycling and desalination programs, administers local assistance grant and loan programs, facilitates voluntary water transfers and, when needed, operates a State drought water bank.
  
Goal 7 - Perform efficiently all statutory, legal, and fiduciary responsibilities regarding management of State long-term power contracts and servicing of power revenue bonds.
+
*    Goal 7: Perform efficiently all statutory, legal, and fiduciary responsibilities regarding management of State long-term power contracts and servicing of power revenue bonds.
 +
**    During the 2001 energy crisis, the Governor and the Legislature gave DWR the statutory authority to purchase and schedule all electricity used by the three nearly bankrupt major power utilities in the State.
 +
**    DWR used its authority to enter into long-term contracts with power producers to stabilize the volatile wholesale energy market and to provide the revenue certainty needed by suppliers to secure financing for construction of necessary new power plants.
 +
**    DWR has been charged with the responsibility of managing the long-term contracts, including renegotiating their terms and conditions when possible.
  
Goal 8 - Provide professional, cost-effective, and timely services in support of DWR’s programs, consistent with governmental regulatory and policy requirements.
+
*    Goal 8: Provide professional, cost-effective, and timely services in support of DWR’s programs, consistent with governmental regulatory and policy requirements.
Goal 1: Develop and assess strategies for managing the State’s water resources, including development of the California Water Plan Update.
+
  
DWR is responsible for promoting California’s general welfare by ensuring beneficial water use and development statewide. To guide development and management of the State’s water resources, DWR is responsible for preparing the California Water Plan Update (Water Code section 10000 et seq.).
+
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), establishedin 1956 by the California Legislature, plays an important role in sustaining
 +
California’s economy, environment and quality of life.  
  
The Plan is updated every 5 years to address challenges currently facing California, such as satisfying the needs of the State’s growing population (projected to reach about 53 million by 2030), quantifying water demands and supplies based on sound information, and identifying management strategies to diversify the regional portfolio assets.
+
DWR operates and maintains the California State Water Project (SWP), which provides drinking water and water to our farms.  
  
DWR is authorized to conduct other planning functions, including those related to urban and agricultural water use, fish and wildlife, recreation, groundwater, agricultural drainage, and water quality. It also investigates and identifies water management strategies, such as conservation, water recycling, water transfers, conjunctive management, and structural measures.
+
Other programs work to preserve the natural environment and wildlife, monitor dam safety, manage floodwaters, conserve water use, and provide technical assistance and funding for projects for local water needs.  
  
DWR represents the State on interstate water policy issues concerning the Klamath, Truckee, Carson, and Walker Rivers; it also helps develop interstate water policy on the Colorado River and is designated as the State administrator of interstate water-related compacts.
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These are among many activities as DWR strives to meet the water needs of today and the future.  
Goal 2: Plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain the State Water Project to achieve maximum flexibility, safety, and reliability.
+
  
DWR operates California’s State Water Project (SWP), the largest State-built multipurpose project in the United States. The SWP was designed in the 1950s and 1960s. Most SWP construction was done during the 1960s and 1970s, with some later additions.
+
DWR’s major responsibilities include overseeing the statewide process of developing and updating the California Water Plan (Bulletin160 series); protecting and restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; regulating dams, providing flood protection, and assisting in emergency management; educating the public about the importance of water and its proper use; providing technical assistance to service local water needs; and planning, designing, constructing, operating and maintaining California’s State Water Project.  
  
The SWP, spanning more than 600 miles from Northern California to Southern California, includes 32 storage facilities, 17 pumping plants, 3 pumping-generating plants, 5 hydroelectric power plants, and approximately 693 miles of canals and pipelines, including the newest section, the East Branch Extension located in Southern California.
+
The SWP is the largest state-built, multi-purpose, user-financed water project in the United States.  
  
DWR operates and maintains the SWP and delivers, on average, 2.4 million acre-feet of water per year to the 29 water agencies who are repaying the cost, plus interest, of financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining the SWP storage and conveyance facilities. Through the SWP, DWR supplies good quality water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational uses and for protecting and enhancing fish and wildlife.
+
In addition to supplying high quality water for California’s cities, industries, and farms, the SWP also provides flood control, hydroelectric power generation, recreation, enhancement and protection of fish and wildlife habitat.  
Goal 3: Protect and improve the water resources and dependent ecosystems of statewide significance, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Estuary.
+
  
The ability of DWR to meet many of its goals hinges on achieving and maintaining a healthy ecosystem in the Bay-Delta Estuary. Maintaining such an ecosystem requires understanding, collaboration, and reasonable agreement among many partners to resolve Bay-Delta issues.
+
The SWP provides water supply for an estimated 25 million Californians and about 750,000 acres of farmland.  
  
DWR is collaborating and coordinating with the California Bay-Delta Authority and California Bay-Delta Program (CALFED) agencies to carry out its responsibilities of controlling salinity, providing water for use in the Delta, planning long-term solutions for environmental and water use problems, and administering Delta levee maintenance reimbursements and special flood control projects (Water Code section 12200).
+
The SWP, spanning more than 600 miles from Northern California to Southern California, includes 34 storage facilities, 20 pumping plants, five hydroelectric power plants, four pumping-generating plants, and approximately 700 miles of canals, tunnels, and pipelines. Twenty-nine water contracting agencies throughout California have signed long-term contracts to purchase water delivered by the SWP. Approximately 70 percent of SWP water goes to urban users and 30 percent to agricultural users. Through these contracts, the agencies are repaying the water supply and power related revenue and general obligation bonds (plus interest) that fund the SWP’s construction, as well as current costs necessary to operate and maintain all SWP water supply and power facilities
Goal 4: Protect lives and infrastructure as they relate to dams, floods, droughts, watersheds impacted by fire and disasters, and assist in other emergencies.
+
 
+
DWR has the responsibility of protecting public health, life, and property by regulating the safety of dams, providing flood protection, and responding to emergencies. DWR meets these responsibilities through the following activities:
+
 
+
    Continually supervising design, construction, enlargement, alteration, removal, operation, and maintenance of more than 1,200 jurisdictional dams;
+
    Encouraging preventive floodplain management practices; regulating activities along Central Valley floodways;
+
    Maintaining and operating specified Central Valley flood control facilities;
+
    Cooperating in flood control planning and facility development;
+
    Maintaining the State-Federal Flood Operations Center and the Eureka Flood Center to provide flood advisory information to other agencies and the public; and
+
    Cooperating and coordinating in flood emergency activities and other emergencies. (Water Code section 6000 et seq.)
+
 
+
Goal 5: Provide policy direction and legislative guidance on water and energy issues and educate the public on the importance, hazards, and efficient use of water.
+
 
+
Educating the public on the importance of water, its efficient use, and its dangers, as well as collecting, analyzing, and distributing water-related information to the general public and to the scientific, technical, educational, and water management communities are important DWR responsibilities.
+
Goal 6: Support local planning and integrated regional water management through technical and financial assistance.
+
 
+
DWR provides technical and financial assistance to local agencies; cooperates with local agencies, groups, and individuals on water resources investigations; supports watershed and river restoration programs; encourages water conservation, explores conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water, provides planning and advice on water recycling and desalination programs, administers local assistance grant and loan programs, facilitates voluntary water transfers and, when needed, operates a State drought water bank.
+
Goal 7: Perform efficiently all statutory, legal, and fiduciary responsibilities regarding management of State long-term power contracts and servicing of power revenue bonds.
+
 
+
During the 2001 energy crisis, the Governor and the Legislature gave DWR the statutory authority to purchase and schedule all electricity used by the three nearly bankrupt major power utilities in the State.
+
 
+
DWR used its authority to enter into long-term contracts with power producers to stabilize the volatile wholesale energy market and to provide the revenue certainty needed by suppliers to secure financing for construction of necessary new power plants.
+
 
+
DWR has been charged with the responsibility of managing the long-term contracts, including renegotiating their terms and conditions when possible.
+
Goal 8: Provide professional, cost-effective, and timely services in support of DWR’s programs, consistent with governmental regulatory and policy requirements.
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*    Establishment
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*    Geographic Coverage
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== Summary ==
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*      History
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*      Legal and Political Authorization
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*      State Water Project
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*      DWR Projects
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*      DWR Directors
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*      [http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=wat&codebody=&hits=20  California Water Code]
 
*      [http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/calawquery?codesection=wat&codebody=&hits=20  California Water Code]
  
 
*      Return to [http://ecoviz.csumb.edu/wiki/index.php/Conditional_waiver_of_waste_discharge_requirements_for_irrigated_lands#Stakeholders  Conditional waiver of waste discharge requirements for irrigated lands].
 
*      Return to [http://ecoviz.csumb.edu/wiki/index.php/Conditional_waiver_of_waste_discharge_requirements_for_irrigated_lands#Stakeholders  Conditional waiver of waste discharge requirements for irrigated lands].

Revision as of 02:35, 10 April 2012

Watermaster Program

  • Mission
    • To manage the water resources of California in cooperation with other agencies, to benefit the State's people, and to protect, restore, and enhance the natural and human environments.

Strategic Planning Goals

    • Goal 1 - Develop and assess strategies for managing the State’s water resources, including development of the California Water Plan Update.
    • Goal 2 - Plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain the State Water Project to achieve maximum flexibility, safety, and reliability.
    • Goal 3 - Protect and improve the water resources and dependent ecosystems of statewide significance, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Estuary.
    • Goal 4 - Protect lives and infrastructure as they relate to dams, floods, droughts, watersheds impacted by fire and disasters, and assist in other emergencies.
    • Goal 5 - Provide policy direction and legislative guidance on water and energy issues and educate the public on the importance, hazards, and efficient use of water.
    • Goal 6 - Support local planning and integrated regional water management through technical and financial assistance.
    • Goal 7 - Perform efficiently all statutory, legal, and fiduciary responsibilities regarding management of State long-term power contracts and servicing of power revenue bonds.
    • Goal 8 - Provide professional, cost-effective, and timely services in support of DWR’s programs, consistent with governmental regulatory and policy requirements.
  • Goal 1: Develop and assess strategies for managing the State’s water resources, including development of the California Water Plan Update.
    • DWR is responsible for promoting California’s general welfare by ensuring beneficial water use and development statewide. To guide development and management of the State’s water resources, DWR is responsible for preparing the California Water Plan Update (Water Code section 10000 et seq.).
    • The Plan is updated every 5 years to address challenges currently facing California, such as satisfying the needs of the State’s growing population (projected to reach about 53 million by 2030), quantifying water demands and supplies based on sound information, and identifying management strategies to diversify the regional portfolio assets.
    • DWR is authorized to conduct other planning functions, including those related to urban and agricultural water use, fish and wildlife, recreation, groundwater, agricultural drainage, and water quality. It also investigates and identifies water management strategies, such as conservation, water recycling, water transfers, conjunctive management, and structural measures.
  • Goal 2: Plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain the State Water Project to achieve maximum flexibility, safety, and reliability.
    • DWR operates California’s State Water Project (SWP), the largest State-built multipurpose project in the United States.
    • The SWP spans more than 600 miles from Northern California to Southern California, includes 32 storage facilities, 17 pumping plants, 3 pumping-generating plants, 5 hydroelectric power plants, and approximately 693 miles of canals and pipelines, including the newest section, the East Branch Extension located in Southern California.
    • DWR operates and maintains the SWP and delivers, on average, 2.4 million acre-feet of water per year to the 29 water agencies who are repaying the cost, plus interest, of financing, constructing, operating, and maintaining the SWP storage and conveyance facilities. Through the SWP, DWR supplies good quality water for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and recreational uses and for protecting and enhancing fish and wildlife.
  • Goal 3: Protect and improve the water resources and dependent ecosystems of statewide significance, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta Estuary.
    • The ability of DWR to meet many of its goals depends on its ability to achieve and maintain a healthy ecosystem in the Bay-Delta Estuary. Maintaining such an ecosystem requires understanding, collaboration, and reasonable agreement among many partners to resolve Bay-Delta issues.
    • The DWR collaborates and coordinates with the California Bay-Delta Authority and California Bay-Delta Program (CALFED) agencies to carry out its responsibilities of controlling salinity, providing water for use in the Delta, planning long-term solutions for environmental and water use problems, and administering Delta levee maintenance reimbursements and special flood control projects (Water Code section 12200).
  • Goal 4: Protect lives and infrastructure as they relate to dams, floods, droughts, watersheds impacted by fire and disasters, and assist in other emergencies. DWR has the responsibility of protecting public health, life, and property by regulating the safety of dams, providing flood protection, and responding to emergencies. DWR meets these responsibilities through the following activities:
    • Continually supervising design, construction, enlargement, alteration, removal, operation, and maintenance of more than 1,200 jurisdictional dams;
    • Encouraging preventive floodplain management practices; regulating activities along Central Valley floodways;
    • Maintaining and operating specified Central Valley flood control facilities;
    • Cooperating in flood control planning and facility development;
    • Maintaining the State-Federal Flood Operations Center and the Eureka Flood Center to provide flood advisory information to other agencies and the public; and
    • Cooperating and coordinating in flood emergency activities and other emergencies. (Water Code section 6000 et seq.)
  • Goal 5: Provide policy direction and legislative guidance on water and energy issues and educate the public on the importance, hazards, and efficient use of water.
    • Educating the public on the importance of water, its efficient use, and its dangers, as well as collecting, analyzing, and distributing water-related information to the general public and to the scientific, technical, educational, and water management communities are important DWR responsibilities.
  • Goal 6: Support local planning and integrated regional water management through technical and financial assistance.
    • DWR provides technical and financial assistance to local agencies; cooperates with local agencies, groups, and individuals on water resources investigations; supports watershed and river restoration programs; encourages water conservation, explores conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water, provides planning and advice on water recycling and desalination programs, administers local assistance grant and loan programs, facilitates voluntary water transfers and, when needed, operates a State drought water bank.
  • Goal 7: Perform efficiently all statutory, legal, and fiduciary responsibilities regarding management of State long-term power contracts and servicing of power revenue bonds.
    • During the 2001 energy crisis, the Governor and the Legislature gave DWR the statutory authority to purchase and schedule all electricity used by the three nearly bankrupt major power utilities in the State.
    • DWR used its authority to enter into long-term contracts with power producers to stabilize the volatile wholesale energy market and to provide the revenue certainty needed by suppliers to secure financing for construction of necessary new power plants.
    • DWR has been charged with the responsibility of managing the long-term contracts, including renegotiating their terms and conditions when possible.
  • Goal 8: Provide professional, cost-effective, and timely services in support of DWR’s programs, consistent with governmental regulatory and policy requirements.

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), establishedin 1956 by the California Legislature, plays an important role in sustaining California’s economy, environment and quality of life.

DWR operates and maintains the California State Water Project (SWP), which provides drinking water and water to our farms.

Other programs work to preserve the natural environment and wildlife, monitor dam safety, manage floodwaters, conserve water use, and provide technical assistance and funding for projects for local water needs.

These are among many activities as DWR strives to meet the water needs of today and the future.

DWR’s major responsibilities include overseeing the statewide process of developing and updating the California Water Plan (Bulletin160 series); protecting and restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; regulating dams, providing flood protection, and assisting in emergency management; educating the public about the importance of water and its proper use; providing technical assistance to service local water needs; and planning, designing, constructing, operating and maintaining California’s State Water Project.

The SWP is the largest state-built, multi-purpose, user-financed water project in the United States.

In addition to supplying high quality water for California’s cities, industries, and farms, the SWP also provides flood control, hydroelectric power generation, recreation, enhancement and protection of fish and wildlife habitat.

The SWP provides water supply for an estimated 25 million Californians and about 750,000 acres of farmland.

The SWP, spanning more than 600 miles from Northern California to Southern California, includes 34 storage facilities, 20 pumping plants, five hydroelectric power plants, four pumping-generating plants, and approximately 700 miles of canals, tunnels, and pipelines. Twenty-nine water contracting agencies throughout California have signed long-term contracts to purchase water delivered by the SWP. Approximately 70 percent of SWP water goes to urban users and 30 percent to agricultural users. Through these contracts, the agencies are repaying the water supply and power related revenue and general obligation bonds (plus interest) that fund the SWP’s construction, as well as current costs necessary to operate and maintain all SWP water supply and power facilities