Specific Agreement on Folsom Reservoir Recreation Sample Clauses

Specific Agreement on Folsom Reservoir Recreation. Water Forum signatories will work with their elected officials, CDPR and other agencies that have an interest in reservoir levels, such as Congress, Reclamation USBR, California Department of Boating and Waterways and Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA), to obtain at least $3,000,000 of new funding for improvements to Folsom Reservoir recreation facilities11. The CDPR will develop a list of potential recreation improvement projects as part of the funding request. One type of project could be “mini-dikes” i.e., sculpted embankments within the lake bed to impound water for swimming use when reservoir levels are low. Design of the improvements in the lake would also include consideration of features for improving warm water fishery habitat, such as structural complexity for fish on the lake side of the mini-dike embankment, which would also support recreation fishing. Other projects could include but are not limited to those identified in the Water Forum Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The improvements are intended to help mitigate the anticipated loss of visitor days. 10 Historically, many Water Forum purveyors secured water rights prior to the construction of the Folsom Reservoir. After construction of the reservoir, Reclamation U. S. Bureau of Reclamation assumed responsibility for operating the reservoir to store and manage water for the operation of the Central Valley Project (CVP), among other purposes. The reservoir has historically held and released to CVP customers water that Water Forum purveyors were entitled to but had not diverted. Some purveyors signatory to the Water Forum Agreement believe that reservoir declines are properly viewed as being caused by the lack of replacement water supplies for the CVP as senior water rights are exercised and CVP yield is required to be used for environmental purposes. Accordingly, these purveyors believe that California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) mitigation for reservoir impacts is not a legally required purveyor responsibility. Nonetheless they have agreed to measures that will tend to lessen the effect of the reduction in Folsom Reservoir levels that will occur in the future. 11 New funding means funding that Water Forum signatories are instrumental in obtaining that was not authorized, appropriated or required as of January 1, 2000. The CDPR is the agency responsible for managing the recreational resources at Folsom Reservoir. Therefore it is the appropriate agency to receive these funds a...