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Board of Directors
The Cachuma Conservation Release Board
(CCRB) is a joint powers agency formed in January 1973 between the
Carpinteria Valley Water District, Goleta Water District, the City of
Santa Barbara, and Montecito Water District. CCRB was established to
jointly represent the respective parties in protecting the Cachuma
Project water rights and interests of the four South Coast Cachuma
Project Member Units. CCRB's Board of Directors is made up of elected
representatives from each of its Member Units. The current Directors are
listed below:
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Jan Abel, President - Montecito Water
District
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Chuck Evans, Vice
President - Goleta Water District
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Dan Secord, Director - City of Santa Barbara
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Robert Lieberknecht, Director - Carpinteria Valley
Water District
History
Since 1993, CCRB,
together with the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, I. D.
#1, has been conducting and funding fisheries
studies in the lower Santa Ynez River. Because CCRB is funded entirely
by its Member Units, which ultimately are the local water rate payers,
CCRB is actively seeking partnerships through national, state, and
regional salmonid coalition groups and pursuing grant opportunities to
help with the high cost of carrying out steelhead restoration and
enhancement projects.
Meetings
The U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation on behalf of the Cachuma Project Member Units holds the
Cachuma Project water right permits, and CCRB is the agency responsible
for actions and decisions relative to the terms and conditions of those
permits for the South Coast Member Units. These include all issues
related to downstream releases of water from Cachuma Reservoir for the
benefit and protection of steelhead/rainbow trout and their habitats.
CCRB has been participating in the current water rights hearings
before the State Water Resources Control Board to establish Cachuma
Project operating parameters, first with Phase I in November 2000, and
with Phase II of the hearings scheduled for the spring of 2002.
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