Ag
Annual Update - Ag
Annual Update Form (.doc 72k)
Bureau of Reclamation Criteria
2005
Standard Criteria for Evaluating Water Management Plans
The Bureau of Reclamation has revised the criteria for evaluating water conservation plans required by the Central Valley Project Improvement Act of 1992. The act specifies that these criteria are to be used to evaluate plans prepared by Central Valley Project contractors to meet the water conservation requirements of the 1982 Reclamation Reform Act. The plans must meet the criteria established by the Bureau of Reclamation. The act requires revision of the criteria every three years and this was the fourth revision of the criteria 2005 Final Comments on Criteria.
2004 Refuge Criteria (.pdf 84k)
The Bureau of Reclamation has created the Refuge Criteria in order
to provide a common methodology or standard for efficient use of water
by Federal Wildlife Refuges, State wildlife management areas and resource
conservation Districts that receive water under provisions of the Central
Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA). Refuges that entered into water
supply contracts with Reclamation, as a result of the CVPIA and subsequent
Department of the Interior administrative review process (Administrative
Proposal), are required to prepare Refuge Water Management Plans using
the Refuge Criteria.
Final
Comments for 2004 Refuge Criteria (.pdf 50k)
Sacramento Valley Regional
Water Management Plan
The
Sacramento Valley Regional Water Management Plan (Regional
Plan) was prepared by the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors
in cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, in accordance
with the Regional Criteria for Evaluating Water Management
Plans for the Sacramento River Contractors.
The Regional Plan was developed to provide regional, sub-basin
and district specific water use, supply, and facility information
to support improved water management. In addition to
implementing the Regional Plan, each participating district
or company continues to encourage and implement smaller-scale,
local water management activities and improvements.
Central
Valley Project Improvement Act
The Central Valley Project Improvement
Act of 1992 for the first time committed Reclamation to providing
substantial amounts of water for environmental management, with
stipulations from Congress that this supply should be assured
through greater efficiencies in farm and urban use. The CVPIA
was a significant building block toward achieving the Bay-Delta
Accord and the CALFED program of intergovernmental coordination
in Bay-Delta watershed management. CVPIA (.doc
119k)
Conservation Connection Newsletters
Mid-Pacific Region Annual Reports
Project
Reports
Cal Poly ITRC Evaluation of Small Scale Area Measurement Techniques
One example of research that supports the urban BMPs is the
Irrigation Training and Research Center (ITRC) project. In
order to implement BMP Number Five, districts will need to
measure their irrigated landscape acreage and develop a water
budget accordingly. ITRC has tested five different measurement
methodologies and the associated technology. Their report
includes information about the cost, challenges, and real
experience with the different methods.
Contra Costa Water District Landscape Measurement Program
This district conducted an on-the-ground and in-the-air analysis of landscape measurement techniques. They compared the results of high tech remote sensing aerial measurement equipment to as-built drawing scanning and a hand measurement method. The district compared the accuracy and cost of the three different methods. This report complements the work performed by ITRC.
- Landscape Measurement Program Main and Appendix A (.pdf 1015k)*
- Summary of the
Findings of the Water Shortage/Drought Assistance Survey - Fifty organizations, representing a wide range of Bureau projects
and units and including both agricultural and urban water suppliers,
were interviewed, either by telephone or face-to-face interviews.
The results of this survey are presented here.
- The
Center for Irrigation Technology (CIT) San Joaquin Valley Grower Irrigation
Survey
The CIT conducted a survey in an effort to enhance the assistance
that growers currently receive with meeting their irrigation needs.
This 25 question survey focused on determining current irrigation
practices, identifying water management problems, assessing current
use of water management resources, and identifying needs to make irrigation
improvements. This report contains the findings of the study and provides
information regarding the types of technical and financial assistance
agencies can provide to assist growers in improving their irrigation
management.
Yolo County
Resource Conservation District Pilot Program 2001
The Yolo County Resource Conservation District undertook a one-year
pilot program funded by the CALFED Water Use Efficiency Program from
December 2000 through December 2001. This report contains the results
of the study and provides a thorough analysis of the water quality
benefits of practices that the District has long promoted.
Reclamation
Reform Act
This document forms the foundation in statutory and administrative law for water conservation efforts: With the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982, Congress broadened Reclamation's empowerment from building and managing waterworks on the supply side, to also making sure federal water was being put to reasonable and beneficial use on the demand side. This hefty body of law covers a lot of topics. Browse the section titles for the items of interest, and then click on any frame you wish to print before choosing the print command.
USBR Drought Handbook
