Placer County fighting to keep its water
By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal
Placer County has plenty of water and that’s creating increasing challenges to keep it, a Placer County Water Agency told the Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
The water agency is attempting to galvanize support for a regional effort to fight a new round of proposals for the Delta that Strategic Affairs Director Einar Maisch said pose serious risks to the water supplies, economy, environment and quality of life in the Sacramento region and Northern California.
Maisch showed a slide of a nearly dry reservoir at Folsom and posed the question whether that will be “our future?”
The water agency board recently adopted a resolution seeking regional collaboration on a solution and is seeking a similar resolution from the Board of Supervisors. The board heard Maisch’s presentation Tuesday and asked staff to place the agency’s resolution request on a future agenda.
The proposed resolution calls on any solution for the Delta water supply to be based on “sound science” and one that doesn’t shift any negative economic, environmental or societal impacts to areas in the Sacramento region.
The regional water coalition would include the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, the Northern California Water Association and the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association.