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Consistently,
over the years, our awards have been given to those who practice
innovation, collaboration, and integration in resource planning.
The award recipients and the categories of their awards where applicable
are as follows:
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The Feather River Coordinated Resource Management group, (Feather River
CRM, is an alliance of natural resource management agencies, local landowners,
private interests, and the public that works on restoration of two Feather
River watersheds. FRCRM has been one of the California leaders in integrating
science, technology, economics, community, and eco-system restoration.)
* The Fisheries and Aquatic Habitat Collaborative Effort (FAHCE),( was
formed in late 1997 as a proactive response to a water rights complaint
brought by the Guadalupe-Coyote Resource Conservation District (GCRCD).
To date, FAHCE has been very successful. In 1998, the FAHCE CC recommended
removal of two fish passage impediments on the Guadalupe River system
and the District Board approved this work. They received a Category
III grant from CALFED to help fund this barrier removal. Together with
an additional fish ladder that was completed in Upper Guadalupe in 1999,
approximately 19 miles of improved habitat was re-opened to cold water
fisheries. FAHCE also conducted experimental streamflow studies in 1998
to gather temperature and flow data.)
* Municipal Water District of Orange County – Landscape
Performance Certification Program, (The Landscape Performance Certification
Program sponsored by the Municipal Water District of Orange County is
a model of how important environmental programs will be accomplished
in the 21st century. The overall goal of the program is to encourage
greater water use efficiency by demonstrating quantitatively the amount
of water and money wasted by over-watering. This program is one of the
few examples of actual integration of multiple objectives on a local
basis for any reason, and it is the first time that the Integrated Waste
Management Boards (both State and County) have gotten involved in funding
a water conservation effort.)
* Mokelumne River Project 137 Agreement, (After a year long collaborative
effort, environmental and recreation groups, Pacific Gas & Electric
Company (PG&E), and state and federal resource agencies crafted
an historic agreement that will govern operation of PG&E’s
Mokelumne River Project for the next 30 years. The agreement balances
continued hydropower generation with environmental protection and recreation,
while preserving the rights, legal mandates, and regulatory responsibilities
of all parties.)
1999
*
City of Santa Monica's Urban Runoff Recycling Facility, (a state of
the art facility that treats an average of 500,000 gallons per day of
dry weather urban runoff for landscape irrigation and for use in dual-plumbing
systems while providing public education, and public art next to the
Santa Monica Pier.)
*
Sacramento Water Forum, (for bringing together competing visions of
the American River in order to secure a reliable water supply for the
Sacramento area while protecting valuable riparian and groundwater resources
through interest based negotiations.)
*
Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group and Chris Elias, (representing the
largest employers in the area, led the fight to reduce the effluent
from wastewater treatment plants by 19% in order to benefit a brackish
water marsh and the San Francisco Bay to which it drains.)
*
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority, (produced a model of regional
cooperation and planning to secure the money to drought proof its district
by increasing local supplies by 2.1 maf of water while cleaning-up and
restoring the environment.)
*
Penn Mine Restoration Project, Committee to Save the Mokelumne: California
Sportfishing Protection Alliance, State Water Resources Control Board,
Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board and East Bay Municipal
Utility District, (for an unprecedented collaborative effort to protect
against acidic rock drainage, by restoring an old abandoned hard rock
mine.)
*
Battle Creek Salmon Restoration Project, and the hard working, motivated
people who adopted a plan and an MOU to restore 42 miles of this stream
to support the recovery of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout by increasing
in-stream flows, removing five dams, and making other improvements costing
tens of millions of dollars.
Carla
Bard Advocacy Award
*
East Bay Municipal Utility District Special Employment Program to facilitate
the transition of the chronically unemployed and welfare recipients
to work by providing an attractive starting salary, training and intensive
support systems to encourage good work habits and job retention skills.
1998
*
East Bay Municipal Utility District - MTBE Outreach Program, (for the
process used, contacting Supervisors and others in the inter-mountain
area to build consensus about the changes in reservoir operation needed
to deal with this difficult contaminant.)
*
San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority & Three Valleys Municipal
Water District Consensus Plan, (for the Baldwin Park Operable Unit Water
Supply Project for developing a consensus to clean up a major superfund
site by adding a drinking water component instead of fighting for responsible
parties to be forced to the table through the courts.)
*
Firebaugh Canal Water District, Panoche Irrigation & Drainage District
& Joe McGahan - Grassland Bypass Channel Project, (for converting
a high toxic area to a low toxic area through aggressive changes in
irrigation and district policies to reduce drainage.)
*
Congressman Vic Fazio - Lifetime Achievement Award for his sharpness,
acumen and deep knowledge of water; and for taking the lead on tough
issues that others would prefer to duck while representing a very diverse
district.
*
South Yuba River Citizens League, (a large non-profit with a small budget,
for promoting effective forms of public participation and improved public
accountability that has led to the protection of 101 miles of the Yuba
River with wild and scenic status.)
*
California Urban Water Conservation Council, a consensus-based organization
by design, that is establishing important baseline data and experience
with water efficiency practices, a results-oriented model, the only
one of its kind in the country. Awards were presented to the current
convener and vice convener, while recognizing all the others.
First
Annual Carla Bard Advocacy Award
*
Felix Smith is worthy of the Carla Bard award because of his 34 years
of service in the US Fish and Wildlife Service, protecting wildlife
and advocating for a rational state water policy based on science. He
is most known for being the whistle blower at Kesterson, and for demanding
the restoration of the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam.
1997
*
Western Canal Water District, (for finding financial partners on its
own initiative to remove six dams, build a large siphon under Butte
Creek, and restore 18.5 miles of the creek to natural stream bed while
continuing ag water deliveries with no harm to fish.)
*
Mono Lake Committee and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, (for
their joint Outdoors Experiences Program, bringing inner city youth
to Mono Lake to swim, hike, canoe, camp and plant trees while learning
about our water resources and the eco-system.)
*
Andy Lipkis and his TREES Project, (for thinking way outside the box;
that every piece of property is part of the larger watershed to be used
to conserve rainwater, eliminate erosion, clean our air, reduce global
warming, involve people in taking responsibility to manage their property
wisely, create jobs and beautify our city in an economically sustainable
way; and for building the coalitions needed to make it happen.)
*
Stephen H. Smith, Turlock Fruit Company, (for implementing new and creative
approaches to effectively reduce the amount of water applied, reduce
drainage and tailwater, and reduce chemical additives -- all while increasing
the yield of his cotton and melon crops.)
*
The California State Resources Agency, CERES Project (California Environmental
Resources Evaluation System), (for its complex cooperative role in economic
and environmental issues such as water, since its inception and through
use of its website during catastrophic flood events.)
*
Mark Capelli, (for his 23 years of expert leadership of Friends of the
Ventura River to preserve and restore the fish and wildlife of the Ventura
River system culminating with the listing of southern steelhead, given
up as extinct, and for developing a recovery plan.)
*
East Bay Municipal Utility District - Hydrants are for Fighting Fires
Campaign, (for its massive public education campaign in the schools,
neighborhood associations, speaking events, and in the movies. These
efforts resulted in an average of 5, instead of 1,000 hydrant openings
each summer.)
1996
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Irvine Ranch Water District, (for its much honored tiered rate structure,
combined with Operation Outreach, loans and rebates that has reduced
water usage by 45% per acre.)
*
Sonoma Valley County Sanitation District and Carollo Engineers, (for
using the carbon in cheese whey to remove excess nitrogen from secondary
effluent so that it can be used for vineyard irrigation. Wine and cheese
together in California.)
*
David Yardas of EDF and Jason Peltier, (for their efforts behind the
CVPIA Restoration Fund Roundtable, bringing together all three sectors
in a consistently constructive and productive effort to establish priorities,
and financial and programmatic accountability.)
*
Don Kendall, Calleguas Water District
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Yolo County Resource Conservation District, (for its wide variety of
integrated, farm-friendly conservation projects, for habitat friendly
practices, and for implementing a watershed management plan that includes
re-establishing stream meanders and ponds.)
*
Consolidated Efforts behind Prop 204, the first water bond in over 30
years, and one that funds habitat restoration rather than infrastructure
for water transport. Twelve leaders were honored, as individuals, and
representing environmentalists, agriculture, and the urban sector.
*
Tuolumne River FERC Flow Agreement, (for building consensus between
11 disagreeing groups, to restore flow and fish habitat, while creating
new recreational uses in the river, and establishing a great precedent
for negotiated settlements.)
1995
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East Bay Municipal Utility District - Randele Kanouse, (for his five
years of advocacy culminating in the passage of SB 901 which links future
development to the availability of a water supply.)
*
California Trout, (for persuading L A DWP to restrict grazing, restore
streams, improve water quality and the local fishery while increasing
groundwater recharge by changing its land management practices along
the tributaries to Crowley Lake.)
*
Senator Jim Costa, (for his successful authorship of SB 901 which links
development to water supply availability and for requiring inclusion
of this information in EIRs.)
*
Mark Arax, Los Angeles times Reporter in Fresno
*
Bank of America - Vern Crowder and Fred Cannon
*
Dorothy Green for her work as founder of Heal the Bay and chair of this
Water Policy Conference. Her ability to communicate, to work with a
wide variety of people and agencies, and her accessibility has made
her an effective leader in the state.
1994
Collaboration
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San Luis Delta-Mendota Water Authority, (for its Georgiana Slough Hydrocoustic
Salmon Guidance Project which uses state of the art technology and for
partnering with resource agencies and users to restore the fishery with
minimum impact to water users.)
*
Westlake Farms' Cecil Howe and Dan Dooley, (for solving a serious drainage
problem by developing and operating 770 acres of wetland habitat for
waterfowl and shore birds in cooperation with regulatory agencies.)
*
Ed Hasty, (for his tireless efforts in establishing the California Council
on Biological Diversity which includes such programs as CERES, ERIN,
and the San Diego HCP by demanding all agencies and stakeholders work
cooperatively together.)
*
The Prado Basin Project, William Mills, GM, Orange Municipal Water District,
(for developing cooperation to increase the level of storage at Prado
Dam, while providing hundreds of acres of habitat for the least Bell's
vireo, and a constructed wetland system that removes 88% of the nitrogen
from the river while providing habitat for waterfowl.)
Integration
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Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, (for its Integrated Resource
Plan that involved everyone, and developed aggressive conservation,
recycling, and watershed management plans.)
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MWD of Southern California, (for its new willingness to open up its
planning processes to develop a new Integrated Resource Plan.)
*
Eastern Municipal Water District, (with 6 cities, 9 other water agencies,
and others, developed a multi-purpose corridor project providing multiple
benefits to their diverse community.)
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Kaweah River Water District, (through a year long consensus process
also developed an IRP, and a model watershed management plan.)
*
West Basin Municipal Water District, (for resolving fragmented management
and difficult financing issues by addressing water resources in a holistic
and visionary manner.)
Individuals
*
Dan Chapin, (for his successful efforts at preserving and augmenting
our disappearing wetlands by working with all the wetlands and waterfowl
groups, regulatory agencies, and water management agencies to pass appropriate
legislation.)
*
Michael Moynahan, (for promoting and selling the Community Based Organizations
programs to MWD that has installed 40,000 ULFTs, trained and employed
many at risk youth, and provided scholarships, graffiti removal and
more in poor neighborhoods.)
1993
Individuals
*
Penny Howard, Water Conservation Coordinator, U S Bureau of Reclamation,
(for leading the development and implementation of the agricultural
water conservation provisions in the CVPIA.)
*
Bahman Sheikh, Director of the City of Los Angeles Office of Water Reclamation,
(for persuading the Mayor and City Council to commit to reusing 250,000
acre feet or 40% of its wastewater by the year 2010.)
*
Richard Soehren, Office of Water Conservation, DWR, (for developing
a reporting process for the California Urban Water Conservation Council
on a diskette to form a statewide data base to encourage the implementation
of all the BMPs.)
Programs
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Alliance Against Racism and Violence - Sandy Pimentel and Lois Craft,
(for their efforts to recruit young people to change their community
by installing low flow toilets, for $15 each retrofit.)
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East Bay Municipal Utility District's Integrated Resource Plan, (for
the open process used to develop a new mission and a comprehensive integrated
resource plan that includes stewardship, and sustainability.)
*
Kings River Conservation District's Water Management Program, (for developing
a set of tools to help farmers conserve on-farm water and promote efficient
use of all water, including a serious conjunctive use program and public
education.)
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Las Virgenes Municipal Water District - Design Evaluator for Landscaping
and Irrigation Computer Program, (This model has been made available
to others with the educational materials needed for its use.)
*
Los Gatos Tomato Products (for a state of the art tomato paste plant
that reduces the amount of water, energy, chemicals and money needed
to process tomatoes.)
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MWD of Southern California's Lake Havasu Fisheries Improvement Program,
(for partnering to restore the fish habitat in Lake Havasu with CA Department
of Fish and Game, Anglers United, Arizona Game and Fish, The Bureau
of Land Management, U S Department of the Interior and the U S Fish
and Wildlife Service.)
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MWD of Southern California's Ultra-Low-Flush Toilet Replacement Program,
(for its work with Community Based Organizations, providing free toilets
and $10 for each toilet replaced. The old toilets are crushed for road
base and backfill materials.)
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San Diego County Water Authority's, Spanish Language Irrigation Training
Program, (for developing with DWR and CalPoly San Luis Obispo, field
level irrigation classes for landscape workers in Spanish.)
*
San Francisco Bay Delta Aquatic Habitat Institute, Kids in Creeks: A
Creek Exploration and Restoration Program, (an innovative K-12 educational
program that also includes developing and conducting community action
projects related to the creek they are cleaning up.)
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Ventura County Resource Conservation Slide Shows - Deborah Weinstock,
Nancy Settle, and Llana Sherman , (for developing water and energy conservation
slide shows with multiple partners in English and Spanish, making difficult
issues easy to understand.)
Institutions/Agencies
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Central and West Basin Municipal Water Districts, (for integrating thoughtful
progressive water management with extensive public participation, implementing
all 16 conservation BMPs, the U S' largest recycling system, a groundwater
conjunctive use program and a state of the art brackish desalination
facility.)
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U S Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region - Roger Patterson, Regional
Director, (for managing the CVP for involving the public, improving
customer service, and cooperating with everyone to achieve a truly integrated
management system.)
1992
Agricultural
Programs
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Gary Robinson, Farmer, (for a text book water management operation on
his 1200 acres of almonds and pistachios near Huron.)
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Ted Sheely, Farmer, (converted an inefficient 1980’s era irrigation
system to a state of the art system for irrigating annual crops.)
*
Simpson Vineyards (doubled raisin grape tonnage and slashed irrigation
amounts in half.)
Water
Management
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Pacific Gas & Electric Company & Sacramento Municipal Utility
District, (cooperated to release water down the South Fork of the American
River for boaters, meeting each other's needs.)
Water
Agency Programs
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Eastern Municipal Water District, (for use of reclaimed water in multipurpose
wetlands as part of a Total Water Management Program.)
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Marin Municipal Water District, (for a residential water rationing plan
to foster voluntary conservation that has achieved broad public acceptance.)
* Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, (for setting aside
more than 4,000 acres of habitat as mitigation for the construction
of the Domenigoni Reservoir, while working to assemble a 20,000 acre
preserve.) Co-recipients are the United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
California
* Department of Fish and Game, Riverside County Regional Park and Open
Space District, Riverside County Habitat Conservation Agency, The Nature
Conservancy, Preserve Our Plateau, and the California Wildlife Conservation
Board.
Individuals
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The Mothers of East Los Angeles, Santa Isabel & Juana Gutierrez,
(for spearheading a major water conservation program - the installation
of 1500 low flush toilets while providing jobs in the barrio.)
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Roberta Borgonovo and David Fullerton, (for their innovation and extra-ordinary
dedication to water conservation, through the establishment of the CA
Urban Water Conservation Council, and for David's help in initiating
the Three Way Process.)
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Larry Farwell, (for all the conservation programs he has initiated,
but especially for promoting the use of gray water throughout California.)
Private
Industry Programs
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Borden Packaging and Industrial Products, (for reducing by half the
amount of water used in its manufacturing of industrial adhesives at
its Fremont facility.)
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KT Aerofab & Vincent Cabrera, (for recycling the water needed in
the fabrication of formed metal components, and reducing his water bill
by almost 90%.)
*
New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., (for recycling water throughout
its manufacturing facility to save 295,000 gallons per day.)
1991
Innovative
Technology & Programs
* L.A. Department of Water and Power - Advanced Oxidation Process Plant
* Tiny Tots Diaper Service
* Orange County Water District
* California Department of Water Resources - Establishing a Water Bank
Urban
Models
* UC Cooperative Extension - Orange County - Xeriscaping Education
* City of Santa Monica - Fixture Rebate Program
* City of Palm Desert - Water Efficient Landscape Median Program
Agricultural
Models
* Ernest Hubbard, Jr. - New Methods of Farming
* Monterey County Agricultural Water Conservation Task Force
* California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
* Arvin-Edison Water Storage District
Political
Process Models
* Supervisors John Flynn & Sunne Wright McPeak
* Inyo County - City of Los Angeles - Owens Valley Management Agreement
* MWD of Southern CA - Imperial Irrigation District Path-Finder Agreement
* Urban Water Conservation Charter
* Committee for Water Policy Consensus
Reclamation
Models
* Las Virgenes Municipal Water District
* MWD of Southern California
* Irvine Ranch Water District
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