SCWA White Paper Notes

This Web copy of Krista Rector's invaluable opus, researched and assembled in the mid 1990's, does not include charts and other graphical elements. But there's so much useful here, you may not notice! (A complete bound copy is available for reference use at the Environmental Center of Sonoma County.)

Note that the 1996-98 Update contains a review of the SCWA's Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) on the Water Supply and Transmission System Project (WSTSP) and comments on its Final EIR, as well as some narrative on directives and modifications mandated along the way.

As you may know, the challenge spearheaded by the Friends of the Eel of the adequacy of the WSTSP's Final EIR was first rejected in local Superior Court, but then upheld on appeal at the State level. One immediate result was a warning issued by the SCWA to its water contractors about uncertainty in augmentation of future supply--which has evolved to official recognition of its limits, and the ascendance of conservation. Visit the FOER site to locate more of that thoroughly-researched and successful challenge which Krista's White Paper well complements.

We will compile more on the status of regional water issues now in ferment as additional web building volunteers step forward. In the meantime, there's no better place to start to review, or to get up to speed, on the background of the most critical issue in the North Bay area.

Of special interest may be the report section entitled "Problem Statement....", which outlines proposals for reforming and reorienting SCWA in response to the region's conservation, threatened species recovery and water quality needs.

See more Water topic links on the Issues/Topics page of the main EC site.

4/3/04