Petition by Sonoma County Water Agency Requesting Approval of a Temporary Urgency Change in Permits 12947A, 12949, and 16596 in Mendocino and Sonoma Counties
Summary
- SCH Number
- 2004078472
- Public Agency
- Sonoma County Water Agency
- Document Title
- Petition by Sonoma County Water Agency Requesting Approval of a Temporary Urgency Change in Permits 12947A, 12949, and 16596 in Mendocino and Sonoma Counties
- Document Type
- NOE - Notice of Exemption
- Received
- Posted
- 7/28/2004
- Document Description
- Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA) is requesting that, for the remainder of the current year (2004), the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) temporarily change some of the instream-flow requirements in SCWA's water-rights permits from those that normally apply during Normal hydrologic conditions to those that normally apply during Dry hydrologic conditions. This action is intended to prevent storage levels in Lake Mendocino from dropping to very low levels by the end of the dry season, as occurred in 2002, thereby protecting adult salmonid migration upstream in the fall, and preventing even lower storage levels should water year 2005 by Dry or Critically Dry.
- Contact Information
-
Amy Harris
Sonoma County Water Agency
Lead/Public Agency
2150 West College Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Phone : (707) 547-1958
Location
- Counties
- Mendocino Sonoma
- Other Location Info
- Lake Mendocino
Notice of Exemption
- Exempt Status
- Categorical Exemption
- Type, Section or Code
- sec 15307, 15308, 15301
- Reasons for Exemption
- Guidelines 15307 and 15308 provide that actions taken by regulatory agencies to assure the maintenance, restoration or enhancement of a natural resource and the environment are categorically exempt. Guidelines Section 15301 provides that the operations of existing facilities involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency's determination are categorically exempt from CEQA.
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