October 2025 Board Meeting

Top 3 Key Takeaways

Water Transfer Process Challenges and Timeline Constraints: The agency faces significant challenges with water transfer deadlines due to state mandates and court-imposed timelines. Staff explained that they cannot provide information about who has carryover water available for transfer because they need time to collect and analyze end-of-water-year data (collected after September 30th) to prepare the annual report due to both the Department of Water Resources and the court by April 1st. This creates a time crunch that limits the agency's ability to extend deadlines for transfer requests, even though users may not know they need transfers until they complete their end-of-year reporting.