What's new?

The Western Shasta RCD is having a Water Measurement Workshop on Wednesday May 16th.Click here for more information.

A follow-up Water Measurement Workshop/Meeting is planned at the Aldridge Ranch.The follow up session will be held on Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 4:00 pm. We will meet at the corrals (same place as last time) and walk up to his ditch. No need to RSVP. The Aldridge Ranch is located at 8805 Ponderosa Way, Shingletown, CA.

On February 15th The Sacramento Valley Water Quality Coalition held its semi annual meeting at the Yuba Sutter Farm Bureau. STWEC was well represented at the meeting. The Guest Speaker was Pamela Creedon, Executive Officer of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. She outlined many programs that are taking place here in California as well as some new regulations that are going to be coming down the pipe.

Click here for the February 2012 Report to the Board.

Click here for the 2011 SVWQC Monitoring Report .

Come and Join us for the Annual STWEC board meeting. Come down to the Tehama County RCD office, May 9th at 8am.Click here for the agenda.

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Our Spring newsletter is hot off the presses. Please follow the link to our Newsletters and the top link will always be the newest newsletter.

What is STWEC?

The Shasta-Tehama Watershed Education Coalition is a voluntary coalition of irrigators in the north state (Shasta and Tehama Counties) that have formed to comply with the clean water act and give our members an inexpensive alternative to discharge permits from the California State Water Resources Control Board. Here's the link to the Irrigated Lands Program information from the state.

We belong to the Sacramento Valley Water Quality Coalition, our 'umbrella organization', with which we complete all of the monitoring requirements and work on ways to make this program work for both the requirements of the state and and our members.

To become a member, you must first apply with the State Water Resources Control Board. The best way to do that is to contact Ben Letton by email (blettonATwaterboards.ca.gov) or phone (224-4129). Once approved by the State Board, they'll send a letter directing you to contact us, and we can send you the proper paperwork.

I am happy to answer any questions you might have about the organization; you can email me mike@stwec.org or give me a call 530-527-4208.