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County receives Drought Resilience Plan; task force set to focus on small systems and domestic wells
Summary
Consultant Stantec presented Sierra County’s Drought Resilience Plan (DRP) prepared under SB 552; the board was shown a vulnerability assessment identifying Calpine, Pike, Verdi, parts of Sierra Valley/Loyalton, and North Yuba River communities as areas of elevated water‑shortage risk and heard proposed short‑term and long‑term response actions.
A Stantec consultant presented Sierra County’s Drought Resilience Plan (DRP), a plan developed under Senate Bill 552 to identify water‑supply vulnerabilities for state small water systems, domestic wells and small spring‑fed systems and to propose short‑term and long‑term responses.
Neil Stewart, the county lead for the DRP from Stantec, told the board the plan established a County Drought and Water Shortage Task Force and completed a risk assessment that highlighted elevated vulnerability in Calpine, Pike, Verdi, communities along the North Yuba River and parts of the Sierra…
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