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. ' . . ",' Agency to the Department of Water Resources during the months of July through September in 1987 and 1988. The Board approved the 1987 transaction as a temporary change and authorized the 1988 transfer in the form of a trial transfer. In both years, the Department purchased water from Yuba.County, which released the water into the Yuba River where it flowed to the Delta. The purpose of the transfers was'to allow the Department to satisfy its obligations to maintain water quality in the Delta, while retaining water in Lake Oroville on the Feather River for future consumptive and instream demands. In 1987, the Board approved a transfer of 83,100 acre feet at 935 cfs. In 1988, it authorized the transfer of 110,000 acre feet at 500 to 600 cfs. At the time of this writing, the Board also has pending before it two proposed transfers for which environmental impact reports are being prepared. One involves a possible ten year transfer of an as yet unspecified quantity of water from the East Bay Municipal utility District to the Contra Costa Water District, The other involves a proposed transfer of State Water Project water from the Devil's Den Water District to the castaic Lake Water Agency. Except for several temporary transfers that occurred during the 1976-1977 drought, we have not been able to document any transfers considered by the Board between 1975 and 1980. Indeed, we have been advised by several members of the Board's staff that there were no transfer applications filed during this period. B. other Transfer Activitv In addition to these transfers that have come before the State Water Resources Control Board, we have surveyed all contractors for water supplied by the State Water Project to determine whether there have been transfers of state project water between contractors and to assess the level of transfer activity within each contracting agency. Two contractors, the Coachel1a Valley Water District and the Desert Water Agency, have entered into long-term agreements with the Metropolitan Water District to exchange their SWP entitlements for an equal quantity of MWD's entitlement from the Colorado River. These contracts run until 2035. The Coachella exchange involves 61,000 afa; the Desert exchange will reach 38,100 afa from 1990 through 2035. Both Coachella and Desert use the replacement Colorado River water for groundwater recharge. Apart from these two exchanges, there have been no transfers of state project water between state contractors. The proposed transfer from the Devil's Den Water District to the Castaic Lake Water Agency was mentioned above. In addition, the Berrenda Mesa Water District, which receives state project water from the Kern County Water Agency, has been attempting to sell 50,000 afa of - 3 -