2022-04-12 Callimanis Presenation 3 Don Huber to PC PH 4-12From: Alena Callimanis <acallimanis@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 10:45 AM
To: Tania Flores; Cheri Flores
Subject: This was presentation number 3: Don Huber presentation for Planning
Commission Meeting on April 12
Attachments: Don Huber Latest Articles.pdf
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My apologies for not labeling Don Huber's presentation as number 3.
Alena Calimanis
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From: Alena Callimanis <acallimanis@gmail.com>
Subject: Don Huber presentation for Planning Commission Meeting on April 12
Date: April 12, 2022 at 9:19:14 AM PDT
To: Tania Flores <tflores@laquintaca.gov>, Cheri Flores <clflores@laquintaca.gov>
Cc: Deborah Huber <deborah.huber12@gmail.com>
Here is the presentation for Don Huber for the Planning Commission Public hearing on
April 12, 2022. Don was not a prior speaker.
Thank you very much.
Alena Callimanis
LQRRD
919 606-6164
Latest Water Articles
Don Huber
La Qu i nta
I'm a Scientist in California. Here's What Worries
Me Most About Drought. April 4, NY Times
• Dr. Andrew Schwartz is the lead scientist and station manager at the
University of California, Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab
• This year's measurement, taken at the transition from snow season to
melt season and has the most snow of any measurement throughout
the year, confirmed what those monitoring the drought had feared
• California's snowpack is now at 39 percent of its average, or 23
percent lower than at the same point last year
• This signals a deepening of the drought — already the worst in the
western United States in 1,200 years
The 2019 Drought Contingency Plan includes additional
contributions that California and CVWD have to make
when Lake Mead gets to 1,045 feet and below - the Lake
is at 1,059.39 feet.
WATER LEVEL
1,059.39
Feet MSL
Monday, April 11, 2022
10:00:00 AM
Level is 169.61 feet
below full pool of 1,229.00
1,100 -
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1,085 -
1,080 -
1,075 -
1,070 -
1,055 -
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Featuring timely news, water saving tips, upcoming events and much
more. Brought to you by the non-profit collaborative formed to focus
on water conservation, through awareness and education to
Coachella Valley residents, businesses and government. CV Water
Counts is comprised of the Coachella Valley's six water agencies:
CVWD, CWA, DWA, IWA, MDWC, and MSWD.
News from Water Counts
Statewide Drought May Lead to Local Watering Restrictions
California is in its third consecutive dry year, with little rainfall,
low snowpack and reservoirs at or near historic lows. We also
had a record -dry January and February — which are typically big
months for rain and snow.
On March 28, 2022, Newsom issued an executive order that
will likely have big impacts in the Coachella Valley.
The State Water Board will now consider having every water
agency in the state implement their Water Shortage
Contingency Plan to save 20%. (Announcing April or May).
And What is the CVWD Plan that just hit the Desert Sun?
Prohibition on outdoor water use during daylight hours for spray irrigation, except
for leak checks or with an agency -approved conservation alternative plan.
Restaurants can serve water only on request (by the way, the 18 Million gallons of
water in the wave pool can serve 144 Million 16 oz glasses of water)
Agency will actively discourage overseeding.
Agency will expand public information campaign.
Agency will increase water waste patrols.
Agency will encourage counties, cities, HOAs and other enforcement agencies to
suspend code enforcement and fines for brown turfgrass areas.
Agency will increase turf rebates from $2 per square foot to $3 per square foot.
Figure ES-2 shows the cumulative change in storage for the Indio Subbasin since 1970. Since 2009, the
Indio Subbasin has recovered approximately 840,000 acre-feet (AF) of groundwater in storage, or about
5 ercent of the cumulative depletion observed from 1970 to 2009.
Figure ES-2: Cumulative Change in Groundwater Storage since 1970
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This has gone up only because of CVWD Colorado
Water Purchases that Come Through the
Coachella Canal
• What happens when our allocations of water from the Coachella
Canal, which is our Colorado River Water source, decreases?
• With less than 15 feet to go down at Lake Mead, this will happen this
year
When CVWD says they have plenty of water, they are assuming
an unlimited supply of Coachella Canal, a.k.a. Colorado River
water - look how the orange bar keeps growing
Figure ES-5: Indio Subbasin Supply Forecast Projected Future Supplies with Climate Change (AFY)
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2020 2025
• Colorado River (Minus Conveyance Losses)
• Surface Water
▪ Delta Conveyance Facility
Planned Recycled Water
2030 2035 2040
• SWP Water (Minus Diversions to MC-GRF) • Other: Rosedale Rio -Bravo
• Watershed Runoff • Recycled Water
ss Lake Perris Seepage Sites Reservoir
2045
If Golf Courses and Wave Parks divert water from
the Canal, that means it does not make it to our
Thomas E Levy replenishment area where Canal
water enters our aquifer
It is time to say stop to water -
wasteful development projects.
Please don't approve this project!