KERN COUNTY ECONOMIC SUMMIT THE FUTURE OF WATER AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPACT

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1 KERN COUNTY ECONOMIC SUMMIT THE FUTURE OF WATER AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPACT

2 CURTIS CREEL Kern County Water Agency Assistant General Manager

3 CALIFORNIA S WATER SYSTEMS William Mulholland Los Angeles Aqueduct Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Los Angeles Aqueduct 1913

4 CALIFORNIA S WATER SYSTEMS Hetch Hetchy System Los Angeles Aqueduct San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Hetch Hetchy System 1913 (Raker Act)

5 CALIFORNIA S WATER SYSTEMS Pardee Reservoir Mokelumne River Aqueduct Hetch Hetchy System Los Angeles Aqueduct East Bay Municipal Utility District Mokelumne River Aqueduct 1929

6 CALIFORNIA S WATER SYSTEMS Mokelumne River Aqueduct Hetch Hetchy System Inaugural M Board Meeting Huntington Hotel Los Angeles Aqueduct Colorado River Aqueduct Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Colorado River Aqueduct 1941

7 CALIFORNIA S WATER SYSTEMS CVP Shasta Dam Mokelumne River Aqueduct Hetch Hetchy System Los Angeles Aqueduct Colorado River Aqueduct Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Central Valley Project 1940 First water delivered (Contra Costa Canal)

8 CALIFORNIA S WATER SYSTEMS CVP Mokelumne River Aqueduct Hetch Hetchy System Governor Pat Brown Harvey O. Banks SWP Los Angeles Aqueduct Colorado River Aqueduct CA Department of Water Resources State Water Project 1960 Burns Porter Act st water to So Cal

9 KERN COUNTY SOURCES OF WATER 10-Year Supply Average ( ) in Acre-feet Groundwater 1,231,910 36% Kern River 710,630 20% Misc. Local Water Supplies 20,930 6% SWP 890,990 26% CVP 433,800 12%

10 Devils Den KERN COUNTY GROUNDWATER BANKING PROGRAMS Berrenda Mesa 46 California Aqueduct Kern County has made major investments since the drought. 33 Lost Hills Belridge 8 8 Semitropic Semitropic 33 Elk Hills 46 West Kern Delano-Earlimart ID Shafter- Wasco ID Southern San Joaquin MUD North Kern 43 Rosedale-Rio Bravo Henry Miller 166 Cawelo Rag Gulch Kern-Tulare Bakersfield KCWA KCWA Improvement Improvemen District No. 4 t District No. 4 Kern Delta Wheeler Wheeler Ridge- Ridge- Maricopa Maricopa Arvin- Edison City of Bakersfield 2,800 Acres Berrenda Mesa Banking Pioneer Banking Kern Water Bank Isabella Reservoir Semitropic/M/et al Banking Arvin-Edison/M Banking ID4/KTRG Banking Buena Vista Banking Rosedale-Rio Bravo Banking Kern Delta/M Banking Cawelo/Dudley Ridge Banking North Kern Banking (proposed) Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa (proposed) Useable groundwater basins

11 ROBERT J. KUNDE Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Water Storage District Engineer-Manager

12 POSSIBLE 201 WATER SUPPLY SCENARIOS SUPPLIES [1] 10% SWP, KWB available [2] 20% SWP, Dry Year Transfer Program Supplies available Note: Average District demand is approximately 18,000 af/yr 2014 ACTUAL 201 [1] 201 [2] SWP 9,84 19,709 39,418 District Carryover 21, Kern Water Bank 38,000 3,000 3,000 Pioneer Project 19,000 16,000 16,000 Berrenda Mesa Wells 3, Olcese Wells 2, District Wells 14,00 14,00 14,00 Friant Recirc North Kern , Butte 608-2,400 KCWA Yuba C2 & ,000 CV Communities North Kern Rio Bravo Well DYTP 8,820-8,820 Browns Valley Total 122,60 8, ,98 WRM Allocation (ac-ft per alloc acre)

13 1,000 acre feet OUR WATER SUPPLY PROGRAM SWP FIRM YIELD 4,00 4,000 D ,00 3,000 2,00 72: Wild & Scenic Rivers Projected Firm Yield D-148 THE DELTA WATER SUPPLY PROBLEM 2,000 1,00 1, Projected Demands SWP Demand Firm Yield 86: Racanelli Decision Bay-Delta Accord 89: Winter Run Listed 93: Delta Smelt Listed 04: OCAP 08: Wanger

14 KERN COUNTY WATER DISTRICTS Devils Den Berrenda Mesa Lost Hills Belridge Semitropic 46 Delano-Earlimart ID 4 3 Southern San Joaquin MUD North Kern Shafter- Wasco ID Cawelo Kern-Tulare 178 Isabella Reservoir 8 I Rosedale-Rio 4 Bravo 3 Cross Valley Canal Bakersfield KCWA ID4 Olcese Sources of Supply KERN RIVER DISTRICTS 33 West Kern 119 Henry Miller Wheeler Ridge- Maricopa 166 I Kern Delta 99 Arvin- Edison Tehachapi-Cummings C I CVP FRIANT-KERN DISTRICTS Tejon-Castac CVP CVC DISTRICTS KCWA SWP MEMBER UNITS Lebec C

15 ERIC AVERETT Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District General Manager

16 CURRENT GROUNDWATER CHALLENGES Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: Requires Sustainable management of groundwater basins. Enhance local management consistent with rights to use or store groundwater Establishes minimum standards for sustainable groundwater management Provides local groundwater agencies with authority to implement Focused on local control with minimal state intervention State Board Backstop

17 CAUSE & EFFECT Reduction of Imported Water Supplies Cumulative Change in Central Valley Groundwater Storage Through 2002

18 ALL ROADS LEAD TO HIGHER COST WATER

19 JON PARKER Kern Water Bank Authority General Manager

20 Berrenda Mesa KINGS Lost Hills Friant - Kern TULARE KERN Southern San Joaquin MUD Canal Deleno- Earlimart ID Rag Gulch Kern-Tulare Kern County Water Districts KERN SAN LUIS OBISPO Westside Mutual Water Company Semitropic Shafter-Wasco ID Cawelo Belridge Buena Vista North Kern Kern River Legend Major Water Conveyance Arvin-Edison / M Belridge Berrenda Mesa Buena Vista Cawelo City of Bakersfield Acres Delano-Earlimart Henry Miller ID4 / Kern-Tulare / Rag Gulch Kern Delta / M Kern Water Bank KT RG Lost Hills North Kern Pioneer Project Rosedale-Rio Bravo Semitropic / WMD / et al Shafter - Wasco ID Southern San Joaquin MUD Tejon-Castac West Kern Westside Mutual Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa SANTA BARBARA West Kern California Aqueduct Rosedale-Rio Bravo KWB KERN Buena Vista VENTURA Henry Miller COB BM Pioneer Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa KCWA ID4 Kern Delta Arvin- Edison Tejon-Castac 0 2. Miles

21 Berrenda Mesa KINGS Lost Hills Friant - Kern TULARE KERN Canal Deleno- Earlimart ID Rag Gulch Kern-Tulare Kern County Groundwater Banking Program Participants KERN SAN LUIS OBISPO Westside Mutual Water Company Semitropic Cawelo Belridge Buena Vista North Kern Kern River California Aqueduct Rosedale-Rio Bravo KWB COB BM Pioneer KCWA ID4 Legend Major Water Conveyance Westside Mutual City of Bakersfield Acres Berrenda Mesa Lost Hills Belridge Pioneer Project Kern Water Bank Semitropic / WMD / et al Tejon-Castac Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Arvin-Edison / M North Kern Delano-Earlimart ID4 / Kern-Tulare / Rag Gulch KT RG Buena Vista Rosedale-Rio Bravo Kern Delta / M Cawelo West Kern SANTA BARBARA West Kern KERN Buena Vista VENTURA Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Kern Delta Arvin- Edison Tejon-Castac 0 2. Miles

22 Dudley Ridge KINGS Friant - Kern Canal TULARE Kern Water Bank Participants KERN KERN SAN LUIS OBISPO Westside Mutual Water Company Semitropic Kern River California Aqueduct KWB KCWA ID4 Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa SANTA BARBARA KERN VENTURA Tejon-Castac 0 2. Miles

23 KWB ECONOMIC BENEFITS Annual recovery ranges from 240,000 AF to 10,000 AF 10,000 AF projected for 201 Economic impacts in 201 if KWB didn t exist with a 2% SWP allocation:

24 DANA S. MUNN Kern River Watermaster Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District General Manager

25 KERN RIVER WATERSHED

26 APRIL-JULY KERN RIVER RUNOFF 400% 30% 300% 20% 200% 10% 100% 0% 0%

27 END OF PRESENTATIONS