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Delta Watermaster reports progress on OpenET reporting, flags South-Delta channel capacity and invasive mussel detection
Summary
The Delta Watermaster told the board on March 4 that the Delta alternative compliance reporting program using OpenET estimates is expanding and that the office expects most 2024 reports to be filed; staff said it will issue notices of violation to a small number of nonfilers.
In a March 4 briefing the Delta Watermaster and the board's Delta lead scientist described progress in a pilot OpenET-based reporting system for legal-Delta water rights, warned of limited channel capacity in the South Delta and flagged the recent detection of the invasive golden mussel in the Stockton/Antioch area.
Lede: Will Anderson, senior engineer for the Delta Watermaster, said the Delta alternative compliance plan (ACP) and the OpenET reporting approach were developed to provide a practical, consistent way to estimate consumptive use in parts of the legal Delta where direct gauging is difficult or prohibitively expensive.
What staff reported: For water year 2023 the pilot reporting program covered roughly 2,700 rights in…
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