RESOLUTION NO. 2004–16
Resolution of
the Board of Directors
of the Monterey
Peninsula Water Management District
Declaring Its
Appreciation to the Carmel Area Wastewater District for Efforts to Augment
Water Levels in the
WHEREAS, the Monterey Peninsula Water Management
District (MPWMD) has monitored water levels in the Carmel River Lagoon (Lagoon)
on a continuous basis since 1992, and has observed near record low water levels
this summer; and
WHEREAS, other individuals and groups such as the Carmel River
Steelhead Association (CRSA) also provided reports and concerns about low
Lagoon water levels based on anecdotal evidence from years of experience
observing conditions in and around the Lagoon, and
WHEREAS, the Lagoon functions as crucial habitat
for restoring and conserving the threatened population of steelhead in the
Carmel River Basin and in the South-Central California Evolutionarily
Significant Unit, and
WHEREAS, the Carmel Area Wastewater District (CAWD) helped to
quickly evaluate the potential for augmenting water levels and independently
offered to provide supplemental water to the Lagoon from its tertiary recycled
water treatment plant immediately upstream of the Lagoon, and
WHEREAS, all agencies including the California Department of Parks
and Recreation (CDPR), the California Department of Fish and Game, the National
Marine Fisheries Service, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
worked cooperatively and expediently to implement the offer from CAWD to
discharge tertiary-treated recycled water to the Lagoon on ten occasions
between July 25, 2004 and October 6, 2004, amounting to a total augmentation of
37.5 acre-feet, and
WHEREAS, the CDPR and Pebble Beach Company have
offered to help defray costs associated with CAWD recycled water discharges to
the lagoon during the remainder of this season; and
WHEREAS, the CAWD continues to evaluate the feasibility of
modifying their treatment plant to provide water in the near term (3-4 years)
for augmenting water levels during summer months.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, and ordered by the Board of Directors of
the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District that:
a.
The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District recognizes the outstanding
performance of CAWD officials in their successful efforts to augment Lagoon
water level conditions this summer for the benefit of steelhead, and
b. The Monterey Peninsula Water Management District further intends to continue participation in efforts to enhance Lagoon water levels during similar low water conditions in the near future, and will work with CAWD and other local, state and federal agencies to promote such enhancement efforts, as appropriate under conditions existing in the future.
On motion of Director ________ and seconded by Director ________, the foregoing resolution is duly adopted this 18th day of October 2004 by the following votes:
AYES:
NAYS:
ABSENT:
I, David A. Berger, Secretary to the
Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District, hereby
certify that the foregoing is a resolution duly adopted on the 18th
day of October 2004.
Witness my hand and seal of the Board of
Directors this ____day of _______ 2004.
_______________________
David A. Berger
Secretary to the Board
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