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Priming the Pump: How Will Southern California Make Up For The Water It Will Lose From The Delta Because Of Pumping Restrictions To Protect Threatened Species ?

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ourt-ordered pumping restrictions to reduce losses of Delta smelt, Chinook salmon, and longfin smelt to entrainment by pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta could cost Southern California up to 30% of its water supply from the Delta on a continuing basis. How can we make up for these losses short-term and long-term?

Join us on 23 September, 2008 to explore and evaluate the Options Desired Outcome To inform Southern California water managers and other stakeholdersof the uncertainty of the Delta water supply because of pumping restrictions, the likely time scale of this uncertainty, the options for reducing the impacts, and the urgency for assessing and evaluating these options.

WHEN:.......Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.

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COST:..........Only parking WHERE:...... Honda Theater, Aquarium of the Pacific RSVP:............Advance reservations required Email [email protected] or call (562) 951-1648

The Aquarium of the Pacific’s Marine Conservation Research Institute (MCRI)

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8:00 am

Registration and coffee

8:30 am

Opening Plenary Welcome and Introduction of Suja Lowenthal, Councilmember, City of Long Beach; Director, Metropolitan Water District; Kevin Wattier, General Manager, Long Beach Water Department Introduction of Jared Huffman, Chair, Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee Suja Lowenthal

9:00 am

Overview of desired outputs and outcomes and the flow of the day

Jerry Schubel

9:15 am

Identification of Factors That Affect Pumping—the frames of reference for the forum to provide context and perspective on pumping restrictions to protect Delta smelt, longfin smelt, and salmon. Christine Swanson, Executive Director, The Bay Institute

10:00 am

Break

10:15 am

The Ebb and Flow of X2 in the Management of Freshwater Flows into California's Bay-Delta system Matthew Nobriga, CALFED Science Program

10:40 am

Brief Overview of Other Confounding Factors •

Loss of Snowpack

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Decreased Precipitation in Southern California with More Frequent, More Prolonged, More Intensive Droughts.

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Issues on the Colorado River Robert Wilkinson, Director, Water Policy Program, Bren School, UCSB

10:55 am

So the Challenge for Southern Californa Water Managers is....

11:00 am

Assessment and Development of Options; each speaker will present a 15 minute overview Options: •

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Kevin Wattier

Conservation Ryan Alsop, Director, Government and Public Affairs, Long Beach Water Department Recycling and Re-Use of Waste Water Martha Davis, Executive Manager of Policy Development, Inland Empire Utility Agency Capture of Run-off and Groundwater Recharge Steve Arakawa, Group Manager, Water Resources Management, Metropolitan Water District

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Ocean Desalination Rick Soehren, Chief, Office of Water Use Efficiency, Department of Water Resources, State of California

12:15 pm

Lunch with break-out groups that self-select around these four strategy options for “Dealing with an Uncertain Water Future.” The assignment for each group is to come up with a 10 point program to enhance the potential of the strategy to help offset pumping losses.

1:30 pm

Brief Reports by each of the luncheon working groups (10 minutes each) and brief responses from each of the speakers who discussed the options earlier.

2:30 pm

Putting the Pieces Together

Kevin Wattier & Jerry Schubel

3:15 pm

Summary and Conclusions

Kevin Wattier & Jerry Schubel

3:30 pm

Adjourn

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