Water & Environment Task Force

Bay Area Regional Reliability Partnership Update  
 
How are Bay Area water agencies working together to improve drought resiliency and respond to climate change?
 
Join us to hear an update from the 8 agency Bay Area Regional Reliability (BARR) Partnership on the work they are doing to develop a regional solution to improve the water supply reliability for over 6 million area residents and the thousands of businesses and industries in the Bay Area. BARR published a report in December 2017 (here) that detailed 16 drought mitigation measures. Those measures included interties, expanded storage in Los Vaqueros Reservoir, treatment/supply including a regional desalination project, and various operational changes including exchanges and transfers. The BARR Partnership is currently developing a Shared Water Access Program (SWAP) to facilitate water supply transfers to (and exchanges within) the Bay Area.
 
About our speakers:

• Dr. Maureen Martin is Special Projects Manager at the Contra Costa Water District. She is responsible for managing the Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion Project and the Bay Area Regional Reliability effort. She has extensive experience working with federal, state, and local entities to implement capital projects that achieve regional benefits.
• Thomas Niesar is the Water Supply and Planning Manager at the Alameda County Water District. He oversees the integrated management of ACWD’s existing water supplies as well as long range water resources planning studies.
• Dr. Grace Su is an Associate Civil Engineer at East Bay Municipal Utility District in the Water Supply Improvements Division. She is managing the Bay Area Regional Reliability effort, the East Bay Plain Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan, and the Demonstration Recharge, Aquifer and Extraction Management (DREAM) Project.