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CSPA Protests El Dorado Water Rights Application
by Chris Shutes, FERC Projects Directdor
July 8, 2009 -- CSPA has protested simultaneously filed applications and petitions of El Dorado Water and Power Authority to divert water to El Dorado County that has been stored in the Upper American River Project. EDWPA acquired storage rights for up to 40,000 acre feet of water in the UARP from the Sacramento Municipal Utilities District, in a bilateral agreement signed in 2005.
CSPA is signatory to the 2006 Upper American River Project and Chili Bar Settlement Agreement, and has an interest in assuring that streamflows, lake level, and recreation opportunities provided for in this FERC relicensing Settlement are not diminished by any new water rights gained by El Dorado.
The protest filed by CSPA also questions the need for water and whether El Dorado will use the water reasonably and not wastefully. El Dorado County interests have spoken frequently in the last ten years of the need for a drought reserve, but the present applications and petitions do not address the issue.
The effort by El Dorado is one of the first in California in which a county of origin seeks water that is presently diverted in part for export through the Delta by one of the statewide water projects. CSPA has an interest in how the competing interests are addressed by the State Water Resources Control Board. Many other protests are expected.
Read CSPA’s protest here.