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Delta Watermaster reports OpenET-based alternative compliance reporting progress; urges follow-up on remaining filers and flags South Delta channel-capacity, H‑
Summary
Delta Watermaster staff told the State Water Resources Control Board that OpenET-based alternative compliance reporting is advancing across the legal Delta but that staff must continue outreach to remaining nonfilers and must address South Delta channel-capacity, HABs and invasive-species threats.
The Office of the Delta Watermaster told the State Water Resources Control Board on March 4 that the Delta alternative compliance plan (ACP) — an OpenET-based method to estimate consumptive use in the legal Delta under Senate Bill 88 reporting — is making progress but requires continued outreach to bring remaining water-rights holders into compliance.
Will Anderson and Delta Watermaster staff reported that the Delta unit encompasses roughly 2,700 individual water rights and that, after an initial extension to account for OpenET data availability, roughly 98 percent of water-rights holders had filed annual reports for the prior reporting year. The Delta ACP filings for water year 2023 were still rolling in;…
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