WSP07404

• File Number: 8210.470
• Description: Pacific Southwest Interagency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 12/1/1965
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Draft - How California Plans Water Development - Report of the Coordinated Planning Subcommittee - December 1965
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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HOW CALIFORNIA PLANS WATER DEVELOPMENT*

Section I

Objectives and Background

The objective of the Department of Water Resources is

"... to guide the development of California's water resources
to the end that the phys ical, economic, and social needs of the
people of California will be met most efficiently. "

The planning program objective of DWR is --

". . . to develop and maintain the plans which will enable
the Department to effectively guide the development of
California's water resources."

That sounds simple enough. But behind these objectives stand 45 years of
active water planning by California State agencies. Today California's
water planning has reached levels of sophistication and complexity unlikely
to be matched by any other State for many years to come. The complexity
reflects the phenomenon of California its elf.

Evo1ut ion has produced these general conc1us ions:

-- Only a State agency can concern itself with all aspects of
all water development in all portions of a State.

-- Only a State agency can fill the functional role between
local and district water projects and the "specialized"
Federal agency projects;

-- The absence of an overall economic planning effort by the
State gives the State water agency an extra burden in its
planning function,

"'Report:'ofthe ,Coordinated Planning Subcommittee of the Pacific Southwest Y
Inter-Agency Committee. Based on presentations made March 9, 1965, :::::.\
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to the subcommittee by the following representatives of the Division of
Resources Planning, Department of Water Resources, the Resources Agency,
State of California: Albert J. Do1cini, Chief, Planning Management Branch
(Section ).); Arthur J. Inerfie1d, Water Quality Staff Specialist (Section II);
and Ralph G. Allison, Acting Chief, Planning Investigations Section (Sec-
tion nm. Report prepared by William T. Davoren, Regional Coordinator,
Pacific Southwest Region, U.S. Department of the Interior.