Sonoma County Gazette, September 2009

Water Battles heating up…..

By Brenda Adelman

Water Agency Changing Course…..
Much to the chagrin of Sonoma County water contractors, half of whom provide water delivery services outside the Russian River watershed, the Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA) is finally changing course.

At the coming September 15th Board meeting (which will be over by the time you read this), Water Agency Directors (Supervisors) will probably drop their seventeen year quest for additional water rights that would allow them to divert an extra 26,000 acre feet a year (326,000 gallons per acre foot) from the Russian River.