4/18/18

Assignment: Please write a short paper (2 pages, double spaced) on a topic of your choice about water in California. Our speaker, Adam Henderson from DWR, covered many topics and also sent along a large number of links to resources with further information. I have copied his letter with the links below. Use those resources to choose a topic you might like to learn more about, and report on what you learned in your paper.

Adam's letter with links and resources:

Hi Caitlin-

As promised, some clarification and links for you and the students. Please pass this information along.

I checked with a couple of folks at DWR that work on Big Chico Creek flood issues and neither could confirm Lindo was ever the primary channel. This document goes into the issue in depth.

http://www.chico.ca.us/document_library/documents/SandyGulchResourceInventory-Text.pdf

Based on this information, my revised answer would be that to my understanding is Lindo Channel is a distributary channel to Big Chico Creek and Big Chico Creek has been the main channel in recent history.

The only info I could track down on your Little Chico dewatering question is here. See page 11.

http://www.becnet.org/sites/default/files/file-attachment/LCC_Final_ECR_full_document.pdf

One point I wanted to make in the challenges section of my talk is on groundwater:

We talked about the use of groundwater, depletion of groundwater in the State, and the history of no regulation. I skipped mentioning the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) of 2015, which signed into law local control with State oversite of groundwater sustainability. This is a huge change in the way we manage water in the State.